Ritchie Blackmore-style fretboard scalloping!!

a project I did about 4 years ago - an excuse to make a video with some awesome Blackmore guitar playing! LOL

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[XAlphaZEROX]

The scallops on Ritchie's guitars are slightly different than Yngwie's guitars.

Ritchie's guitars have a deeper scallop towards the end of the fret and are graduated, while Yngwie's guitars have a deeper scallop in the middle of the fret and uniformly distribute.

Enough of my ranting.

Good job. Ritchie is everyone's hero. \m/

[tony93666]

@XAlphaZEROX - yup, absolutely correct! That's how I did mine - Ritchie-style, not Yngwie-style.

[JOELALVARADO95]

Who cares if Yngwie copied blackmore, both are great¡¡

[tony93666]

@JOELALVARADO95 - absolutely agree!

[cafe8gateshead]

Great video. Blackmore rules. Simple as!!!!

[DALE97DSM]

Nice, job. Looks great I bet it play 100 times better.

I had a Squire same as yours, years years ago. It played sweet but the g always broke.

[Kidnapper89]

"When I was a huge fan of Blackmore when I was a kid, there didn’t exist any internet, magazines, or information on what kind of gear people use or what they were doing. I didn’t know that he was scalloping his guitar – I didn’t know that."

-Yngwie

[tony93666]

@JacqueShredo - yes, this is true. I try to explain what it feels like to play on scallops - it's like the difference between sliding on the ice with your shoes, or with ice skates... you slide either way, but one is so much smoother & efficient.  A light touch definitely helps! Karl sanders of the brutal tech-death metal band Nile just had a custom Dean V made with a completely scalloped fretboard. You can see lots of 'making-of' photos in the Dean woodshop on his facebook page.

[Nevigo]

@bloodshreded

Yes thats what he SAY.The truth is that he stole it from Blackmore.

Hendrix was what got him started alright,but his big idol (although he will never admit it)is/was Blackmore!

Also his choice of clothes,positions etc etc is pure Blackmore.

[robbie3051]

Blackmore always no 1.

[tony93666]

@dvschsa - yup, he's even hired former Blackmore-band singers for his albums and done covers of old Rainbow songs... AND his new signature Marshall amp head comes in an over-sized Marshall Major box - which is what Ritchie played thru back in the day! hehehe

I'm not taking anything away from Yngwie, not at all - he's amazing. But the truth is the truth, and no one is above the truth. Even Blackmore himself says he will be incredible "once he calms down abit". LOL

[dvschsa]

@tony93666 totally agree, he denies being really influenced by blackmore but the comparison is obvious