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Welcome Steve,  Plenty of answers here, enjoy the forum

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Paging Dr Tad!

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Thanks Larry, Yes, James is a monster

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SCGC would have an Ameritage for sure. Mono makes a great gig bag, TKL makes a great case for your guitar as well. Good luck on the quest!

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From Richard Hoover….thank you Richard

 

We use EVO frets for facility and durability along with personal preference, like on our Scott Law signature model. Regarding control of tone, stainless or Evo frets are contributors rather than the sole cause of  a guitar’s tone.

Fret material does affect tone just like that of the nut and saddle. I’m not clear if I should call this mass, weight or density, though the harder the material the brighter the tone. This shouldn’t be confused with EQ (Bass vs,Treble) Rather I refer here to the scale of warm, dark and rounded to bright, clear and definitive.

The saddle will have the most effect as all string energy passes through it anytime a string is plucked.The nut contributes to tone only when plucked in the open position. The frets transfer string energy and tone only when the string is fretted.
Players have several choices to brighten up a muddy sounding instrument through products that claim to ‘improve” tone, but really just change it. For saddles and nuts ivory is warmer than bone and fossilized ivory to brass are on the bright end of the scale. As to the effect of fret material like EVO, it will technically add clarity but that may be indistinguishable from the combined effect of nut, saddle and string composition.

When designing for custom sound it is the cumulative effect of all contributing factors and components that make any dramatic difference. The choice of tonewoods and/or strings can overshadow whatever fret durometer may contribute to the sound.of your guitar.
Within our range of choices for achieving custom tone the composition of the frets alone wouldn’t be a determining factor unless combined with other more effective contributors.

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Woof!!!!!

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Hello Andrew

Can you send a picture?

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837-5309?

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Thanks everyone, we’re gonna continue this story and let Eric is gonna take a deeper dive on a few areas. Also Will (an expert in this area) is going to give us “The Ultimate in gear for home recording. It looks like 3 or 4 more podcasts on this topic.

Go play y9ur guitar and give his techniques a try

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Well, Here ya go, all of the SCGC string tensions

Standard Low-Tension
155.9 lbs

Standard Mid-Tension
163 lbs

DADGAD Low-Tension
152.92 lbs

DADGAD Mid-Tension
164.27 lbs

Baritone Low-Tension
170.50 lbs

Baritone Mid-Tension
201.50 lbs

12-string
258.39 lbs

 

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That’s funny! I never thought I’d see JB on the SCGC site, the world is changing

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Direct from the Mother Ship!

The medium tension strings have a total tension of 163 lbs.

 

Hey this works pretty well for responses

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Hi Walter,

That’s an interesting question, let me sure I understand it. You are looking for the total tension of all the strings combined?

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I just spoke with Hank, he and Dee are fine, I guess the surge came to their property line so they are high and dry. All guitars survived as did the wine cellar. He did say that it is total destruction, things are just gone, but he wanted you all to know all is well.

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Hey Luke,

You should ask him, he said he was more than open to phone calls. I’m not sure on that, it’s not using a registered trade made, it’s making something out of a sheet, I’d be interested to know what you find out. The pick really did sound great until I left it at Gryphon.

All the best

Richard

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