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Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2008 1:38 am
by zenpharaohs
BobArsecake wrote:I consider "shortscale" to apply to any guitar that has a scale length between 20.5" and 24.75" with that and up to 25.5" being standard.
Seems pretty odd, including all the Gibsons, etc. Les Pauls don't strike me as "short scale".
Plus there are some standard scale lengths past 25.5" - those Selmer Maccaferri guitars, etc. can be 670mm (26.37")
Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2008 1:53 am
by BobArsecake
zenpharaohs wrote:BobArsecake wrote:I consider "shortscale" to apply to any guitar that has a scale length between 20.5" and 24.75" with that and up to 25.5" being standard.
Seems pretty odd, including all the Gibsons, etc. Les Pauls don't strike me as "short scale".
Plus there are some standard scale lengths past 25.5" - those Selmer Maccaferri guitars, etc. can be 670mm (26.37")
BobArsecake wrote:I consider "shortscale" to apply to any guitar that has a scale length between 20.5" and 24.75" with that and up to 25.5" being standard.
Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2008 6:17 am
by Mages
BobArsecake wrote:I consider "shortscale" to apply to any guitar that has a scale length between 20.5" and 24.75" with that and up to 25.5" being standard.
how 'bout that? is that what you were getting at?
and BTW, what was leo fender thinking making a 25.5" guitar? I don't get it. were there any popular guitars of that scale length prior to the broadcater/tele? weren't all gibsons shorter?
Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2008 12:15 pm
by BobArsecake
Yeah, I don't think I wrote it particularly clearly, especially to a skim reader, but I think it's fairly obvious what I meant?