One of the surprisingly common events that brings instruments to The Twelfth Fret Repair Shop is a broken headstock.
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A guitar’s (or any fretted instrument’s) scale length is the basic distance between the nut or zero fret and the bridge’s saddle. This measurement not only determines the placement of the frets for proper intonation, but has a profound effect on string tension, tone, and in some cases, tuning stability.
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Here is an interesting Beaver Creek 4 Course Tiple Conversion. Sometimes, players need instruments in forms that aren’t readily available, custom builds are out of the question, and so we have to find a way to meet the need.
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From time to time, our repair shop is asked to do something a little out of the ordinary.
Converting an electric bass to fretless is pretty standard, but what isn’t so standard is just converting part of the fingerboard to fretless, with frets at either end.
Here are a few images of a conversion performed in The Twelfth Fret’s Repair Shop by Dave Hill.
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