Rickresource Rickenbacker Forum

Has anyone ever played the slanted fret models? John Hall said that they were received with indifference so they discontinued them.

How did it play? Good/bad idea?

It must have been a bad idea if it never caught on.
I'd sure like to try one, though. It does sound like an interesting concept. Too bad.

The original thinking on these slanted fret thingies, is that, when you first grab a neck, and just very casually lay your fingers in position to play,particularly like a bar chord, your forefinger sort of naturally Doesn't want to align itself parallel with the frets, so it's not really uncomfortable, just kinda weird.

I got a chance to play a 68 SF 360 a few years ago. It worked pretty well. Well enough that you'd get really used to it quickly. I have no feeling in my pinky fingertip and I was still able to play leads on it and do chords barre and otherwise. I play a 360 wb and I spent more time getting used to playing the rounded face of the regular 360 seated without a strap and not have it fling of my lap. The slanted frets went largely unnoticed from what I heard and they cost a bit more to make so they got dropped.