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Permalink Reply by Diane in Chicago on October 11, 2011 at 11:00am

When you run the program with your specs, you also get the table.  Is the table accurate and the PDF is wrong?

 

I just ran one for 25" and the template was spot on.

 

No rules, I think, does not include the rules of physics.  Those you can't ignore.

 

George Durbin said:

Okay, now I have a dilemma......

Due to questions about 12th fret spacing being off on my current build, I ran my fret calculators again.  The FretFind2D gave me the same template that I was using and checking that template revealed that the 12th fret is indeed not equidistant from nut and bridge.

Ran the same scale thru the WFret program and it printed out a template that is indeed 12th fret accurate. 

I realize that this is "cigar box" and that there are no rules - if it sounds good, then rock it! - but I would think that intonation should be a close to "standard" as possible.  Or am I over-thinking this?

Has anybody else run into this issue or have a problem with the FretFind calculator??

And, does anybody know who's site it is, so I can contact him/her/them with my dilemma..??

thanx,

George

 

Permalink Reply by George Durbin on October 11, 2011 at 11:11am

Didn't check the tables - just printed out the template for a 26.5" string, since that's what I'm building.

I'll have a looksee...

 

Diane in Chicago said:

When you run the program with your specs, you also get the table.  Is the table accurate and the PDF is wrong?

 

I just ran one for 25" and the template was spot on.

 

No rules, I think, does not include the rules of physics.  Those you can't ignore.

 

George Durbin said:

Okay, now I have a dilemma......

Due to questions about 12th fret spacing being off on my current build, I ran my fret calculators again.  The FretFind2D gave me the same template that I was using and checking that template revealed that the 12th fret is indeed not equidistant from nut and bridge.

Ran the same scale thru the WFret program and it printed out a template that is indeed 12th fret accurate. 

I realize that this is "cigar box" and that there are no rules - if it sounds good, then rock it! - but I would think that intonation should be a close to "standard" as possible.  Or am I over-thinking this?

Has anybody else run into this issue or have a problem with the FretFind calculator??

And, does anybody know who's site it is, so I can contact him/her/them with my dilemma..??

thanx,

George

 

Permalink Reply by George Durbin on October 11, 2011 at 11:18am

Just checked the table - it seems to be spot on.  Comparing the table to the printed template is another story,

Apparently the pdf formula for this scale template is off.

Now I'll have to check the other templates I intend to use.

Permalink Reply by Diane in Chicago on October 11, 2011 at 1:20pm

Can you try opening the PDF file in another viewer, either Adobe or Preview? It seems to be getting scaled down to fit the page or something.

Permalink Reply by George Durbin on October 11, 2011 at 2:26pm

It is being opened in Adobe and I'm pulling it up with the PDF multiple page option.  And there is no doubt that it is being compressed for some reason.  The comparison between the table and the template is off starting with the first fret, so it's really screwy.

There are a couple of things I'm going to try tomorrow when I double check some of the other scales, so we'll see where that goes...  Hopefully it's something simple that I'm overlooking.  Wish I knew a programmer to look at that code, though.

Anyway, thanks Diane.

 

Diane in Chicago said:

Can you try opening the PDF file in another viewer, either Adobe or Preview? It seems to be getting scaled down to fit the page or something.

Permalink Reply by George Durbin on October 13, 2011 at 1:01am

Whoa - this is hugely weird!

Checked the templates I had printed from FretFind and EVERY one of them is off 1 inch.  So whatever glitch is making that program compress the template is doing it consistently. 

Now, if I can just figure out why or WHAT it is doing, I'll be doing good.

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