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... I will say none of my personal favorite guitarists ever used a scalloped neck ...

Besides Yngwie, who else uses a scalloped neck?


Ritchie Blackmore uses one and Steve Vai has the last 5 or so frets scalloped on his guitars....


Interesting. I give you those are some killer guitar players. And I will say Vai is not so much a favorite..but I do like his sound ..I think the reason some of his axes have a few frets scalloped is for more bending ability..not so much for speed and intonation. But overall it doesn't seem too many players use a scalloped neck..including some of the really fast classical players.

However, as far as guitar players I prefer the more bluesy/funky players like SRV, Frusciante, Cray etc over the shredders. Since I play more heavy rock and bluesy style myself a scalloped neck would probably be a hinderance for me personally..but as someone else stated I have nothing against scallops..especially in a garlic butter wine sauce.

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Ritchie Blackmore uses one and Steve Vai has the last 5 or so frets scalloped on his guitars....


We discussed scalloped necks a lot on a couple of recent threads, with some good input from Strat God in particular.

However, this thing about scalloping just the top few positions came up and some of us wondered what the idea of that was? If there is anywhere your finger ain't going to touch timber even on an ordinary fingerboard it is up the dusty end.

So why scallop just those frets? Steve Vai's no idiot: there must be a reason. Anyone know?

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Not a fan myself. I prefer the exact opposite in fact. I'd rather have a neck where the frets are worn down from years of playing so they're barely there, and it has an almost fretless feel to it. Those are the necks I play the best on and that feel the best to me.


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Ritchie Blackmore uses one and Steve Vai has the last 5 or so frets scalloped on his guitars....


We discussed scalloped necks a lot on a couple of recent threads, with some good input from Strat God in particular.

However, this thing about scalloping just the top few positions came up and some of us wondered what the idea of that was? If there is anywhere your finger ain't going to touch timber even on an ordinary fingerboard it is up the dusty end.

So why scallop just those frets? Steve Vai's no idiot: there must be a reason. Anyone know?

Cheers - C


I thought I discussed this. According to the players themselves that scallop a few frets up the neck is for as they say "digging deeper for string bending". However I still think it's a gimic more or less since it looks pretty cool.

However the necks that are completly scalloped seem to serve a function for those who prefer it.

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I thought I discussed this. According to the players themselves that scallop a few frets up the neck is for as they say "digging deeper for string bending".


Sure. But that effect is going to get less as the frets get closer together. So it'll give the least benefit up the top of the neck.

And Steve Vai (and everyone else) bends strings all over the fingerboard, not just at the top five frets. What's different about those positions? Just doesn't seem to make sense.

I expect Vai has said something about it, somewhere. But I can't find it at the moment...

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Ceri wrote:
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I thought I discussed this. According to the players themselves that scallop a few frets up the neck is for as they say "digging deeper for string bending".


Sure. But that effect is going to get less as the frets get closer together. So it'll give the least benefit up the top of the neck.

And Steve Vai (and everyone else) bends strings all over the fingerboard, not just at the top five frets. What's different about those positions? Just doesn't seem to make sense.

I expect Vai has said something about it, somewhere. But I can't find it at the moment...

Cheers - C


True. However you will notice that most players bend more way up the neck. I understand your point about the frets being closer together..but the theory is that if there is more room to bend..you can bend more. Since the scallop adds depth it can in theory allow more string "travel" if you will..which would be unaffected by the width or smaller space between the frets. Of course this assumes your finger fits in between the spacing..otherwise it would have no benefit at all.

But I still feel it's more a gimmic..and although I can take nothing away from Steve Vias skill level...there is not really a more "gimmicy" player then him..other then Hendrix. But in Jimis case it was setting Strats on fire that became his main gimmic. Steve seems to like odd guitars that are more about form then function.

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I like scalloped fretboards. I just can't eat a whole one by myself.

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