Compensated nut on a 12

jayfbv · Post by **jayfbv** » Tue Jan 04, 2005 1:07 pm

Has anyone tried this on a Ric 12? The pic is from Stephen Delft's bit on the mimf forum.

loverickbass · Post by **loverickbass** » Tue Jan 04, 2005 1:14 pm

Oh man, what is that? What's it good for?

Cole

jayfbv · Post by **jayfbv** » Tue Jan 04, 2005 2:07 pm

You don't perceive intonation problems with 6 and 12 string guitars? Tune your guitar for a perfect open G chord, then play a first position A, or try C vs. E.

adam_swapp · Post by **adam_swapp** » Tue Jan 04, 2005 5:04 pm

Tempered tuning is a series of compromises. Some live with it, some embrace it, and some (e.g. Buzz Feiten and this nut) try to work around it.

Personally, I'm waiting for a guitar with compensated frets.

eatswodo · Post by **eatswodo** » Wed Jan 05, 2005 5:46 am

Wait no more:

jingle_jangle · Post by **jingle_jangle** » Wed Jan 05, 2005 7:56 am

String bending would be fun on that one. Stretching a string and hearing it go FLAT would be strange, to say the least!

jayfbv · Post by **jayfbv** » Wed Jan 05, 2005 8:06 am

Judging by the tuning fork logo, that's some kind of Yamaha. Weee-eird!

I brought this up, because I just put an Earvana nut on one of my parts guitars. Definite improvement. Unrelated to that effort, I recently tried a number of Taylor 12 strings and even with them tuned properly, I couldn't handle the open chord swirl.

eatswodo · Post by **eatswodo** » Wed Jan 05, 2005 8:14 am

The guitar is Yamaha's Frank Gambale signature model. The curious bent frets are the Fretwave system - http://www.fretwave.com/index.htm