Hi Guys. I have a fretless guitar and want to mark off the fret positions to make it easier for myself. It's been built on a 24" scale, but I can't find any info on where to mark off the frets. Ive been out of the loop for ages and my brains frazzled. ... anyone able to help
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If you don't feel fancy tempered scales are your thing then mark it at the natural harmonics. 4 6 8 and 12 inches.
If you look carefully at the tempered fret spacings above, this is roughly where the third fifth seventh and twelfth frets go. It is pretty common when playing fretted guitars for people to bend the strings to get the notes on those natural harmonic spacings.
Here's the fret distances from the nut, using the Stew-Mac calculator:
24.000" fret scale
fret from nut fret to fret
1 1.347" 1.347" (nut-1)
2 2.618" 1.271" (1-2)
3 3.818" 1.200" (2-3)
4 4.951" 1.133" (3-4)
5 6.020" 1.069" (4-5)
6 7.029" 1.009" (5-6)
7 7.982" 0.952" (6-7)
8 8.881" 0.899" (7-8)
9 9.730" 0.849" (8-9)
10 10.530" 0.801" (9-10)
11 11.286" 0.756" (10-11)
12* 12.000" 0.714" (11-12)
13 12.674" 0.674" (12-13)
14 13.309" 0.636" (13-14)
15 13.909" 0.600" (14-15)
16 14.476" 0.566" (15-16)
17 15.010" 0.535" (16-17)
18 15.515" 0.505" (17-18)
19 15.991" 0.476" (18-19)
20 16.440" 0.450" (19-20)
21 16.865" 0.424" (20-21)
22 17.265" 0.400" (21-22)
23 17.643" 0.378" (22-23)
24* 18.000" 0.357" (23-24)
* Frets that are red are "octaves".
And here it is in metric:
609.600mm fret scale
fret from nut fret to fret
1 34.214mm 34.214mm (nut-1)
2 66.508mm 32.294mm (1-2)
3 96.990mm 30.481mm (2-3)
4 125.760mm 28.771mm (3-4)
5 152.916mm 27.156mm (4-5)
6 178.548mm 25.632mm (5-6)
7 202.741mm 24.193mm (6-7)
8 225.576mm 22.835mm (7-8)
9 247.130mm 21.554mm (8-9)
10 267.474mm 20.344mm (9-10)
11 286.676mm 19.202mm (10-11)
12* 304.800mm 18.124mm (11-12)
13 321.907mm 17.107mm (12-13)
14 338.054mm 16.147mm (13-14)
15 353.295mm 15.241mm (14-15)
16 367.680mm 14.385mm (15-16)
17 381.258mm 13.578mm (16-17)
18 394.074mm 12.816mm (17-18)
19 406.170mm 12.097mm (18-19)
20 417.588mm 11.418mm (19-20)
21 428.365mm 10.777mm (20-21)
22 438.537mm 10.172mm (21-22)
23 448.138mm 9.601mm (22-23)
24* 457.200mm 9.062mm (23-24)
* Frets that are red are "octaves".
A quick tip: use coloured electrical tape to mark the positions if you don't want to mark the fretboard long term.
http://www.stewmac.com/FretCalculator
All the best from Bill. :D
http://www.ekips.org/tools/guitar/fretfind2d/ that should give ya what ya need . it will give you a pdf to print . make sure your printer is set for real size .. not one page etc ..
hope that helps