Recent content by kokes

I am catching the last minutes of a weekend, I've got much work next week. Here is what I have so far. First picture shows ellipse, if you look closely. Upper spikes of teeth count. Second picture is 3d view. True temperament frets, elliptical fretboard, fanned scalloped neck.

I am done. I don't think it was really worth it. Check out the results before and after factoring in the third step (strings pressed vs open. "pred" means before and "po" after). The results are in mm. These are last few lines: pred [1.4404296789560043, 93.62769589051987, 0.24132288857279646]...

I agree this is overkill. But I've been wanting to build my own guitar ever since before I bought one, and now that I can I want to make it count. I think I will manage to avoid the tone modification after all, with just a fretboard. On a scale 1 (very easy) and 10 (very difficult) the...

I need quick release fretboards.

Maybe the discrepancies of my old fret board could be used to my advantage. From frequency alone the guitar could distinguish a position where the melody is being played, no? And output a tabelature.

Thank you. I basically don't need as much as I thought I would. I was unsure whether I could distinguish vibratos and notes. I don't have a pickup around to test, and we are being locked down. So I figured I would work on a hardware a little. I would rather adjust individual frets then bridge...

I was considering gut strings. But I think I will use steel again. My old strings are old steel strings aged about 20 (I don't use picks any more). I am looking forward to the new sound. Particularly Adio Cheyenne. But the main plan is to be able to safely recognize notes (including vibratos!)...

I will get myself piezzo pickup once the lock down is released here. It was put into action, you guessed it, today. I have seen Audacity in my sw repo.

Never mind. Roman strings didn't stretch. At all.

It's a fixed bridge. I calculated with 610 mm length of e4. Actual length is 620 mm e4. Twelfth fret is 310 mm from nut according to tape measure, verified by strip of paper taped to the guitar, marked and subsequently folded in half. There is no error in the guitar that I can detect. As a...

I came up with the second calculation. I modeled it and measured. With my guitar I sense about 1/2 tone flat on overtone vs. pressed string, up 36 Hz from E5 . It looks as with 1.5 mm action (36 times smaller elongation) the tone will change by about 1Hz. I will try it like that, as good as it...

Thank you once again. I fell asleep, but I will continue with the equal tension calculation when I get a little time today. I think I can buy set of strings, cut them to their respective lengths and weigh with little difficulty. However I risk measuring error, in my circumstances perhaps...

Wow! It is obvious. In my ignorance I thought we were dealing with mass, not mass per unit of length. Frequency when it starts shall I calculate from frequency when elongated then. Fractional change in length is known to me. If my calculations turn out correct, it will be constant throughout the...

Thank you for your valuable inputs. Paul Colby: So I basically need to perform a tensile strength test on the string to be used. That is very clever. Thank you. It will require a specialized instrument. sophiecentaur: I don't think stretched string changes its mass. Does it? When I stretch a...

I was trying to search but found no results. Is there a way to calculate how frequency will change if I stretch a string by certain amount (0.14 mm in my case)? I found out I can measure its frequency once stretched, but no results as of how to estimate new frequency ahead of the time. I know a...