Scalloped Frets

HailHailVitalogy
HailHailVitalogy Posts: 6,034
edited September 2006 in Musicians and Gearheads
Has anyone ever done this or played a guitar with scalloped frets?

I personally would never do it but I was just wondering bceause a friend of mine is doing it.

It's supposed to allow you to bend a lot easier and you don't have to hit the notes as hard at all.
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  • xtremehardy388
    xtremehardy388 Posts: 2,759
    What are scalloped frets?
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  • HailHailVitalogy
    HailHailVitalogy Posts: 6,034
    Just look at the pictures :)

    http://www.projectguitar.com/tut/scalloped.htm
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  • xtremehardy388
    xtremehardy388 Posts: 2,759
    WOAH!!!! THat's crazy and it looks REALLY weird. I dont know if I would be comfortable playing with that though. if it works, I might try it on one of my geetars but jeepers!
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  • HailHailVitalogy
    HailHailVitalogy Posts: 6,034
    I would never do it on any of my guitars...maybe a really cheap guitar...but not any of mine, because if you don't like it, then your screwed

    My friend just baught a cheap '83 Kramer ZX30 for only $80 so he is doing it to the last 5 frets
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  • negationist
    negationist Posts: 237
    (hope i got the spelling right) plays guitar with scalloped frets. Apparently it makes it easier to play really quickly and bend the notes. He's into the whole neoclassical stuff, guitar at 500 beats per minute. Also a flat neck helps i think. But then again, his guitars are custom made.
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  • HailHailVitalogy
    HailHailVitalogy Posts: 6,034
    negationist wrote:
    (hope i got the spelling right) plays guitar with scalloped frets. Apparently it makes it easier to play really quickly and bend the notes. He's into the whole neoclassical stuff, guitar at 500 beats per minute. Also a flat neck helps i think. But then again, his guitars are custom made.

    Yeah I saw Yngwie last year...i noticed it, he has his whole fretboard scalloped which is NUTS

    Richie Blackmore does it too
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  • Thumbing My Way
    Thumbing My Way Posts: 1,073
    I guess you woulnd't do like frets 1 - 9 then??

    Or do you?
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  • exhausted
    exhausted Posts: 6,638
    medelymedelymedelymedelymedelymedelyMEEEEEEEEEEE......

    i don't think you have to hit the notes hard at all on a non-scalloped neck. i can see how it would make bending easier though.

    i think that, if someone didn't have a light touch, they'd be more out of tune with the scalloped neck because they'd still be fretting hard.
  • Milhouse VanHouten
    Milhouse VanHouten Posts: 755
    exhausted wrote:
    medelymedelymedelymedelymedelymedelyMEEEEEEEEEEE......

    i don't think you have to hit the notes hard at all on a non-scalloped neck. i can see how it would make bending easier though.

    i think that, if someone didn't have a light touch, they'd be more out of tune with the scalloped neck because they'd still be fretting hard.

    I'm guessing that higher gauge strings and higher action would be necessary to avoid that...

    Scalloped fretboards are signs of wankery, along with bright yellow paint jobs and sharkfin inlays.
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  • HardtoImagine
    HardtoImagine Posts: 48
    i just want to add. yngwie malmsteen is a really lame guitar player
  • PJ-Sin
    PJ-Sin Posts: 348
    OMG!! Why would someone do that!!??
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  • MLC2006
    MLC2006 Posts: 861
    HardtoImagine wrote:
    i just want to add. yngwie malmsteen is a really lame guitar player


    his scalloping the frets were the first I'd ever heard of this being done. I agree with the above sentiment...being practiced enough to play 1000 notes a minute does not make one a good guitarist. if you want to see how bad he is, go on youtube and watch him playing through blues scales. it's his same old crap, 1000 notes per minute on a BLUES scale. it was really funny to watch. BB King could play 3 bent notes and blow Malmsteen off a stage.
  • Dirty_Frank
    Dirty_Frank Posts: 957
    HardtoImagine wrote:
    i just want to add. yngwie malmsteen is a really lame guitar player

    I used to reallly be into Malmsteen, Vai, Satriani, Johnson. All those shred guys.

    Now I look at it and find it so freakin' boring it's not even funny.

    Oh, and you can guy these:

    http://www.fender.com/products/search.php?partno=0107100841

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