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How to Build Your Own Guitar : Checking Scale for Building a Guitar

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Uploaded by on Feb 22, 2008

There are three different scale lengths for a guitar, (scale being the total distance from the nut to the ideal center point for the bridge) find out how to make sure the scale is correct when building your own guitar in this free guitar-building video.

Expert: Frank Pope
Bio: Frank Pope, founder of FBI Guitars, been building guitars for more than 10 years and has constructed more than 30 finished products.
Filmmaker: Reel Media LLC

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Howto & Style

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  • why dont they mention the 27 in scale? the baritone? thats what i want.

  • i've got somethin with a 25.5 inch neck..... ;)

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  • Wow I learned almost nothing from this video... oh wait I learned how to divide by 2. Not a complete loss.

  • @amosschorr93 yes...you are the smartest one on the page....and the only one who makes sense....do a vid bro!!.....lol ...thanks for the info.

  • i have an 25,20 scale is mine wrong it plays wonderfully

  • lol typical expert village video

  • I think if you like a higher action then you should go shorter scale length. I have 24.75 scale length dean and plays great for metal guitar.

  • Frank, Im building a guitar with a fender neck, but im using a wooden saddle and accoustic strings. this will work based on your information correct?

  • @tormented0011 because he is still somewhere in 1980.

    " heavy metal" fucking hell.

    some decent basic info, nevertheless.

  • 28.5 is my thing

    goes down to F with NO loss of articulation.

  • @GarrettAndersonTV

    gj bro

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