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2. Multi-scale fingerboard - Wikipedia

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   Fanned-fret guitars have a multi-scale fingerboard because of "offset" frets; that is, frets that extend from the neck of the guitar at an angle. Ralph Novak (Novax Guitars) was the first to apply this idea to the electric guitar (1988). [2] The frets are arrayed on an angle, in contrast to the standard perpendicular arrangement of other guitars.

3. Fingerboard - Wikipedia

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   In fret dressing, a luthier levels and polishes the frets, and crowns (carefully rounds and shapes) the ends and edges. Stainless steel guitar frets may never need dressing, because of the density of the material. [2] Not having frets carefully and properly aligned with the fingerboard can cause severe intonation issues and constant detuning.

4. Fret - Wikipedia

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   The neck of a guitar showing the nut (in the background, coloured white) and first four frets. A fret is any of the thin strips of material, usually metal wire, inserted laterally at specific positions along the neck or fretboard of a stringed instrument. Frets usually extend across the full width of the neck.

5. Neck (music) - Wikipedia

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   Double truss rod neck, Rickenbacker guitar Neck-through construction on Ibanez studio guitar Neck joint with a four-screw plate on a Yamaha Pacifica 112 electric guitar. The neck of a guitar includes the guitar's frets, fretboard, tuners, headstock, and truss rod. The wood used to make the fretboard will usually differ from the wood in the rest ...

6. Dingwall Designer Guitars - Wikipedia

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   Dingwall Designer Guitars is a manufacturer of bass guitars and electric guitars based in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada.It employs the fanned-fret system started by Novax Guitars [1] for manufacturing basses, increasing the scale length of the strings on the bass side of the guitar compared to the treble side.

7. Inlay (guitar) - Wikipedia

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   Side of the fretboard inlays, with a small dot that marks 3rd fret. Some popular fretboard inlays include rhombuses, parallelograms, isosceles trapezoids, shark fins and rectangles. Circular markers are the easiest and least expensive to produce, because drilling circular indentations and cutting circular inlays (from sheets or rods) require ...