36 fret 3 octave electric guitar build thread.

[toejam]

Interesting. Looks almost like an upside down Dean ML. Would love to see what it looks like when finished.

[ulijdavid]

Go ahead and make something new and innovative. I think we have enough Strats and Super Strats. Too late now, since you have already cut the fretboard, but I have made some extended range guitars and usually go to whole notes after the 27th fret.
Uli Roth and Helge Engelke (Dreamtide) do some incredible stuff with the extended range guitars. Here are a couple I have done:

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[Newc]

The 24th fret access thing I can see, but once you get beyond that you're playing to cats and dogs, imo. If they dig it, then yeah, but I'm just not convinced of the practical applications of fretting the note in front of the bridge pickup.

[Newc]

I should say it's not that I approve or disapprove - my approval is of no consequence - I'm merely questioning the practicality. As an exercise to improve your luthiery skills or "just to do it" is fine and dandy. From a musical/performance standpoint, it just becomes a masturbatory exercise.

[straycat]

If its what you want to do then have at it no hate from me.
UJR does some amazing things with the Sky guitar.
Practicality goes out the window when you think outside the box.
I hope it all works out in the end keep us posted as the build goes.

[charvelsteen]

Go ahead and make something new and innovative. I think we have enough Strats and Super Strats. Too late now, since you have already cut the fretboard, but I have made some extended range guitars and usually go to whole notes after the 27th fret.
Uli Roth and Helge Engelke (Dreamtide) do some incredible stuff with the extended range guitars. Here are a couple I have done:

wow there great! Glad to see someone at least has an open mind. I have some very unconventional ideas, i plan on doing a whole neck and fretoard sides with material like i have done in the past. it adds sustain and strength imo. Once the material, glue,sealer and gloss harden it becomes like one huge security blanket.





Hows the pickup go under the fretboard? i was considering doing something similar but thought i would need a specially designed humbucker or something.

[charvelsteen]

As for the whole notes i have considered it, but this time around i was trying to go for something similar to a hamer virtuoso, washburn ec etc. But in saying that i plan to make more after this one and anything will go.

[tomanyjacksons]

Hell yeah, that's cool.

[jgcable]

This guy has some thought on a 30 fret. looks fine to me 6 and more sounds even better,

Yep... he can play. Thats for sure.

[mr426]

Honestly id rather have 36 frets than 7 or 8 strings. At least 36 frets hasnt been done to death. Good luck with your build

[charvelsteen]

Honestly id rather have 36 frets than 7 or 8 strings. At least 36 frets hasnt been done to death. Good luck with your build

Yeah i agree. thanks

[charvelsteen]

Update. Fretboard is on and trimmed down. Next step finding some good timber for the wings/body

[tomanyjacksons]

Nice work.

[charvelsteen]

Nice work.

Thanks so much. My initial felling is its going to be rad. The hard part is done the rest is just time consuming. The hardest part will be deciding on what finish i want. The possibilities are endless.

[YetAnotherOne]

no 6 string actually, I was thinking about going 24 medium-jumbo frets, 6 medium and 6 small frets ....

Washburn seems to have done something similar on the EC-36, mine has 24 larger fret wires and a dozen that are slightly shorter & half as wide. Works pretty well as I'm a complete hack and even I find 2 1/2 octaves to be very usable. Beyond that the problem is less with the ability to play up there and more with the fact that the fretted string is so short that it just won't sustain. At the 36th fret it just kind of squeaks momentarily. After acquiring the Washburn I began to wonder if Hamer wasn't onto something with the 26 3/4" scale on the Virtuoso, that extra inch and a quarter would make quite a bit of difference in the relative length of the vibrating string on those highest frets. In any case, great stuff ... carry on.