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Scale length for octave neck
Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2009 6:17 pm
by dubtrub
Can someone provide the scale length on the octave neck on the double neck Mosrite?
I had it saved somewhere but for the life of me I cannot find it now.
Re: Scale length for octave neck
Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2009 6:33 pm
by dorkrockrecords
Hey Danny -
I don't have mine anymore but I seem to remember it being 14".
Cheers,
Adam
Re: Scale length for octave neck
Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2009 12:51 am
by Deke Dickerson
Danny, I'll go look at my guitars in a few days to get you scale length. For the next day or two, however, I cannot bear the thought of digging out cases and going through guitars. My hands have blisters on 'em from carrying so much gear over the weekend!!!
I do seem to remember comparing the octave neck scale length to a mandolin and the scale was just about exactly the same as a Gibson mandolin, probably where Semie copied the scale length to begin with.
Deke
Re: Scale length for octave neck
Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2009 8:14 pm
by TerryTNM
I do believe Joe's original was taken from a mandolin fingerboard and is 13 7/8. The re-neck I did for Brian Lonbeck's JM65 was 14 5/8 as is Larry Collins 1988 guitar.
Terry
Re: Scale length for octave neck
Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2009 8:27 pm
by dubtrub
Got it. Thanks guys.
Re: Scale length for octave neck
Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2009 10:15 pm
by Deke Dickerson
Terry, thanks for saving me a trip to the garage with a tape measure!! My hands still hurt from loading guitars in and out of the GGF.
Deke
Re: Scale length for octave neck
Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2009 7:20 am
by KRamone27
Hey Deke if you don't want to lug all that gear around you can always store some of it at my house
Re: Scale length for octave neck
Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2009 12:56 pm
by Deke Dickerson
Gettin' it to Illinois would be worse than gettin' it to Anaheim for the Guitar Geek Festival....ha
Deke