Extended fretboard out front on guitar top.
Moderator: Shoshanah Marohn
-
Joe Krumel
- Posts: 1282
- Joined: 5 Feb 2008 12:34 pm
- Location: Hermitage, Tn.
Extended fretboard out front on guitar top.
Anyone ever thought of extending the finger board.a small strip fixed to guitar top matched to the real board. Would help in the crowded upper "hughey land"????
-
Lee Baucum
- Posts: 10326
- Joined: 11 Apr 1999 12:01 am
- Location: McAllen, Texas (Extreme South) The Final Frontier
-
Rick Abbott
- Posts: 2175
- Joined: 20 Feb 2007 4:10 pm
- Location: Indiana, USA
-
Charles Kurck
- Posts: 154
- Joined: 15 Mar 2010 1:14 pm
- Location: Living in Arkansas but Heaven is home
Fretboard Width
Last edited by Charles Kurck on 21 Nov 2021 5:43 am, edited 1 time in total.
"Life is better if we're saved, and death is too."
YOu can use fretboard designer github repo like below and print on paper or have lasered onto clear plastic
https://bb.steelguitarforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=375087
https://bb.steelguitarforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=375087
- keyless Sonny Jenkins laps stay in tune forever!; Carter PSG
- The secret sauce: polyester sweatpants to buff your picks, cheapo Presonus channel strip for preamp/EQ/compress/limiter, Diet Mountain Dew
- The secret sauce: polyester sweatpants to buff your picks, cheapo Presonus channel strip for preamp/EQ/compress/limiter, Diet Mountain Dew
-
Donny Hinson
- Posts: 21192
- Joined: 16 Feb 1999 1:01 am
- Location: Glen Burnie, Md. U.S.A.
Re: Extended fretboard out front on guitar top.
What helps more is...practice.Joe Krumel wrote:Anyone ever thought of extending the finger board.a small strip fixed to guitar top matched to the real board. Would help in the crowded upper "hughey land"????
-
James Sission
- Posts: 2061
- Joined: 4 Apr 2005 12:01 am
- Location: Sugar Land,Texas USA
Re: Extended fretboard out front on guitar top.
What Donnie said is your best advice. I'm so thankful that Bobby Bowman told me "just learn the guitar and don't rely on crutches like chords written on frets".Donny Hinson wrote:What helps more is...practice.Joe Krumel wrote:Anyone ever thought of extending the finger board.a small strip fixed to guitar top matched to the real board. Would help in the crowded upper "hughey land"????
As to the Hankey Upright Fretboard, and possibly a few other upright factors:
"There is simply no reason to compare the Hankey Upright Fretboard to horizontal boards. It is entirely new in concept and I am delighted beyond imagination. To say this works for me is the understatement of the year."
"Yes, denotations have a very special place in our lives...The new concept is ideal for many reasons. Individual preferences governing that which pleases one viewer, and not another, is not a problem."
"When Christopher Columbus 'sailed the ocean blue in 1492," his mates wanted to toss him overboard and turn the ship around. They panicked, thinking that the earth was flat, like a steel guitar fretboard."
"The slanting fretboard, mounted at approximately the same angles as a reader would hold a newspaper, or book, has the potential to create a mountain of thoughts."
"A little variation in subject matters is quite unavoidable to be sure. Everyone whom I've met for the first time enjoys discussing steel guitar."
[a brief homage to the inviolable inventor of the Hankey Upright Fretboard, and of his own fretless syntax] R.I.P.
"There is simply no reason to compare the Hankey Upright Fretboard to horizontal boards. It is entirely new in concept and I am delighted beyond imagination. To say this works for me is the understatement of the year."
"Yes, denotations have a very special place in our lives...The new concept is ideal for many reasons. Individual preferences governing that which pleases one viewer, and not another, is not a problem."
"When Christopher Columbus 'sailed the ocean blue in 1492," his mates wanted to toss him overboard and turn the ship around. They panicked, thinking that the earth was flat, like a steel guitar fretboard."
"The slanting fretboard, mounted at approximately the same angles as a reader would hold a newspaper, or book, has the potential to create a mountain of thoughts."
"A little variation in subject matters is quite unavoidable to be sure. Everyone whom I've met for the first time enjoys discussing steel guitar."
[a brief homage to the inviolable inventor of the Hankey Upright Fretboard, and of his own fretless syntax] R.I.P.
Undoubtedly the finest pedal steel player in Paris' 18th Arrondissement
Disaster of Touch, Tone & Taste; Still mastering the manifold mysteries of the Sho-Bud Maverick
Supro, Oahu, pin-striped Rus-Ler SD-10, y tiger-stripe-painted Stella
Hohner Corona Dos en Fa, y Gabanelli en Sol
Disaster of Touch, Tone & Taste; Still mastering the manifold mysteries of the Sho-Bud Maverick
Supro, Oahu, pin-striped Rus-Ler SD-10, y tiger-stripe-painted Stella
Hohner Corona Dos en Fa, y Gabanelli en Sol