Lefty4003S8 wrote:Please tell me....what is the advantage to building this 12-string in short scale?????? Wouldn't that cause more problems tension and intonation-wise????? Lord knows.....12 string guitars and 8 string basses in long scale can suffer from these problens.
I think you just answered your own question!
The Hamer I had been using is a 30.5" scale, and it's leaps and bounds easier to play than the Hamer Chapparal, the MusicVox, the Waterstone...pretty much than every other 12 string bass I'd encountered. So we went with that. Plus, it bridges the gap a bit between the typical 34" scale for bass and the <25" scale for guitar, which works for me conceptually, since the 12 string bass is kind of a mix of a bass and a guitar.
BTW, I just ran across this photo of a short-scale Hamer B12S:
A couple of folks have accused our 2030/12 design as being a bit much like this instrument, which is funny considering that this classic Hamer shape is a rip of the Gibson Les Paul Junior double-cut.