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Topic: scale length on a 59' Stringmaster |
James Mayer
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back in Portland Oregon, USA (via Arkansas and London, UK)
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Erv Niehaus
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Litchfield, MN, USA
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Posted 31 May 2007 10:59 am |
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| It's a little hard to tell as those aren't Fender fretboards. |
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Brad Bechtel
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San Francisco, CA
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Posted 31 May 2007 12:06 pm
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The current owner could tell you. After the auction, the new owner could tell you. In between, unless there's a photo of this guitar next to a yard stick, it's pretty hard to guess.
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Tom Pettingill
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California, USA (deceased)
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Posted 31 May 2007 12:22 pm
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| If the headstock and bridge have not changed, then would not the scale length be as it always was? |
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David Doggett
From:
Bawl'mer, MD (formerly of MS, Nawluns, Gnashville, Knocksville, Lost Angeles, Bahsten. and Philly)
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Posted 31 May 2007 12:31 pm
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| They came in three neck lengths. With the stock Fender fretboards you can tell by the number of fret markers past the 24th fret. But those are not the stock Fender fretboards, so you would have to measure. |
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Roger Shackelton
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MINNESOTA (deceased)
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Posted 31 May 2007 1:04 pm
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| The Fender scale lengths are: 22.5 inches, 24 inches & 26 inches. |
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Erv Niehaus
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Litchfield, MN, USA
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Posted 31 May 2007 1:06 pm
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| That's 24 1/2". |
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John Dahms
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Perkasie, Pennsylvania, USA
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Posted 31 May 2007 1:15 pm
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There are no "bad" Stringmasters, just favorites.
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Tom Pettingill
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California, USA (deceased)
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Posted 31 May 2007 1:54 pm
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| David Doggett wrote: |
| They came in three neck lengths. With the stock Fender fretboards you can tell by the number of fret markers past the 24th fret. But those are not the stock Fender fretboards, so you would have to measure. |
Thanks David. Being kinda new to the steel and having no experience with the Fender in question, I had no idea about the different amount of markers between models.
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Herb Steiner
From:
Briarcliff TX 78669, pop. 2,064
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Posted 31 May 2007 4:00 pm
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The 26" scale guitars, if I'm not mistaken (and I rarely am  lol) were only on the '53 and some '54 models. Beginning in 1955, the scale lengths offered were 22.5" and optional 24.5". The vast majority of Stringmasters were 22.5" scale guitars, until the last two years of the model, 1979-80, when they went to 24.5".
What worries me about that guitar is that we don't know what the scale of the non-Fender fretboard is! If that fretboard is not the correct scale length, the guitar will fret out of tune all over the neck.
'Twould be worth contacting the seller and asking him to measure the fretboard.
OOOPPS! I see the auction has ended. Well, someone either got a great playing guitar, ... or didn't. Depending.
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