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Topic: Who makes fretboards? |
Eddie Thomas
From:
Macon,Ga.,USA
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Posted 1 Aug 2016 6:58 am |
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| Hey guys, I need a fretboard for an Emmons, with fretmarkers shifted down one fret toward the nut. I have been offered a job with a group that tunes to Eb, and in order to keep from retuning everything, I need a modified fretboard. I worked one job with them and I played one fret down all night and I helt? it together, and managed to do the job, but it was on a "wing and a prayer." I got offered a job with them, so I must have done OK. If it wasn't for the fact that I get a lot of pickup jobs, I would retune and forget it. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks guys! |
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David Nugent
From:
Gum Spring, Va.
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Posted 1 Aug 2016 8:42 am
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| If the job will justify a $150.00 expenditure, I believe that Boss builds a pedal that will lower the pitch of your guitar 1/2 tone without retuning. |
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Carl Heatley
From:
Morehead City,NC
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Jeff Mead
From:
London, England
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Posted 1 Aug 2016 11:02 am
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So you're after a custom fretboard with the octave marker at the 11th fret. The 5th fret marker at the 4th fret etc.
Interesting - never heard of anyone doing that. I think I'd still get disoriented st the low rmd of the fretboard. |
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Jeff Mead
From:
London, England
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Posted 1 Aug 2016 11:07 am
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| David Nugent wrote: |
| If the job will justify a $150.00 expenditure, I believe that Boss builds a pedal that will lower the pitch of your guitar 1/2 tone without retuning. |
Never found s pitch shifter that worked even passably on anything other than single notes. Certainly not something that would work on pedal steel with chords and bends.
If such a thing exists, I'd love to see a demo. |
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Jerry Overstreet
From:
Louisville Ky
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Posted 1 Aug 2016 11:21 am
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I bet you could make a temporary one to lay over your existing one yourself using some colored posterboard and a few stickers of your choice.
It'd be pretty easy to make fret indication dots using your existing one then draw lines across using a try square.
A couple places with light duty double stick tape or magnetic tape if your boards are metal for easy on and off.
Boss/Roland does have a key changer program, but mine are the older multi-fx units and the effect goes 2 frets down. While a pitch shifter and intelligent harmony are available on mine, the key changer algorithm is not programmable for pitch and some latency is .
Unless the newer ones are better at this, I couldn't see the program usable for an entire evening playing using it. |
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Lee Warren
From:
Nashville, Tennessee, USA
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Posted 1 Aug 2016 1:27 pm
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I admit I haven't completely thought this through, but wouldn't that mess up the relative scale length / tuning?
How about just detuning the guitar a half step? |
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Stan Schober
From:
Cahokia, Illinois, USA
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Posted 1 Aug 2016 2:25 pm
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How about a clear acetate overlay with the markers in their new positions and blackouts over the old ones ?
you should be able to get your local printing company to do this for you for a minimal cost, and it would be a lot easier to put on and take off than switching out your whole fretboard each time you did a different pick-up gig.
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Jerry Overstreet
From:
Louisville Ky
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Posted 1 Aug 2016 2:45 pm
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| That's probably a better idea than mine Stan. I just bought some removable clear static guitar top protectors. If you could find some of this stuff in fret board lengths to use with Stan's suggestion, it wouldn't require any additional method of temporarily attaching it to the existing one. |
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Jonathan Lam
From:
Brooklyn, NY
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David Nugent
From:
Gum Spring, Va.
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Posted 1 Aug 2016 3:36 pm
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| Before posting my reply, viewed a demo on Youtube of three pitch shift pedals; the Boss, the Behringer, and one named the Morpheus (this seemed the best of the three reviewed) and they did indeed appear to have the ability to lower the pitch of the entire guitar in 1/2 step increments. |
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Jerry Roller
From:
Van Buren, Arkansas USA
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Posted 1 Aug 2016 6:06 pm
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David, I can send you a less than perfect Emmons fretboard. You could use black tape or perhaps a felt marker and black out the fretmarkers. You could then put new markers on with clear tape and lay it over your fretboard when needed.
I don't know if photos of Emmons fretmarkers could be emailed to you and copied, cut out and used? I really like Stan's idea better if you could find someone to do what he suggested.
Jerry
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Eddie Thomas
From:
Macon,Ga.,USA
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Posted 1 Aug 2016 8:21 pm Thanks!
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| Thanks everyone for the idea's you've presented here today. But, I think I like Stan's idea the best. That seems to be the most workable, for me at least. But thanks for idea's and comments. I appreciate ya'll! |
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George Piburn
From:
The Land of Enchantment New Mexico
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Posted 2 Aug 2016 2:10 am Steel Guitar North County
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Jim Palenscar can make you exactly what you want.
Last edited by George Piburn on 4 Aug 2016 5:49 am; edited 1 time in total |
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Jim Palenscar
From:
Oceanside, Calif, USA
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Posted 2 Aug 2016 6:08 am
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| I can shift the markers for you- the fretboard will be polished aluminum and black w/o colors- much like those that you see in John Gould's pics of his ShoBud in the Pedal Steel Section but w Emmons markers. |
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