G'day, does anyone know of a printable fret spacing template for PC, where you can change the scale as my knew build will be 23.5....have tried many links but cant seem to actually use one....am gonna make up some physical templates from this point so I don't have this problem in the future....thanks from frustrated enough to jump''
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WFRET is a downloadable application for Windows computers.
excellent, thanx so much I'll give it a try......
You can download Wfet on my blog page here on CBN:
http://www.cigarboxnation.com/profiles/blog/list?user=0o8hi88esk4nb
and the same.....thanx for replying, I need all the help I can get !!!
+1 on this tool. If your computer doesn't allow you to install/run it, I also came across this online site:
http://www.tundraman.com/Guitars/FretCalc/index.php
And since I only have basic tools at my disposal, I needed a converter to 16ths of an inch:
http://syzygy.virtualave.net/webwork/javascript/decin2fr.html
http://www.ekips.org/tools/guitar/fretfind2d/
this one lets you plug in numbers for all dimensions, even for fanned fret board layouts. if you need pictures of a fanned fret board, my pictures are here http://www.cigarboxnation.com/photo/albums/fanned-fret-board
Are the same templates good to use on a banjo neck?
notes is notes is notes... the fret placement is all about ratios to the scale length so that the string is made just the right length when pressed into each fret so that the proper pitch is sounded when the string is actuated ( typically towards the bridge side in what would be called a strum unless a bow is used ) - an instrument with (for example) a 25" scale length would have frets in the same place / use the same template no matter if it was a banjo or a canjo or a guitar or whatever that thing is that doesn't quite fit more common descriptions.
It is all about the scale length - the distance between the nut and the bridge.
Wal where did you find a steel rule marked in decimal inches? I usually translate to metric because steel metric rules are easy to find.
Well JL, the short answer is "my local hardware store". They do all-metric too, but they do a line of 'metric one side imperial the other' rules, one edge in sixteenths and the like, the other in tenths.
What struck me early on was that scale lengths are still expressed in imperial (ever hear tell of 610mm scale guitar?), and very brief experimentation showed me that I could mark to 1/100th- or even 1/200th- of an inch better than I could to a quarter-millimetre. And I have an 18" scale three-string uke with spot-on by dog intonation right up to the nineteenth fret, so it clearly works for me.
Rural Suffolk, UK btw. If you're in the country I could source one for you should you wish...
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