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Post subject: Strat With 24 Frets?
Posted: Wed Mar 11, 2015 2:47 pm
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Check out this peculiar looking neck on this ebay listing:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Fender-American ... 848244?pt=
Pic #2 shows two extra frets between first and fifth frets. Fret spacing in that area looks a little odd also.
I've seen music videos using "microtonal" guitars with many extra frets to accommodate quarter tones, but never a neck with two extra frets in this location on the neck. The seller claims Fender didn't add frets, but had built 20 like it in the past. (?) Anybody got any idea what's going on here?


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Post subject: Re: Strat With 24 Frets?
Posted: Wed Mar 11, 2015 3:23 pm
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Yikes!! looks like someone added a couple of frets at the low end.......... and the rosewood looks pretty beat up at the high end in the close-up......

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Post subject: Re: Strat With 24 Frets?
Posted: Wed Mar 11, 2015 3:37 pm
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Yeah, it looks like some truly misguided soul decided to flatten the radius on the upper register with a ball peen hammer. Just wonder what the idea was here? $525 for a nearly new AmStd would be a great deal, but that neck is pretty much ruined IMO.


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Post subject: Re: Strat With 24 Frets?
Posted: Wed Mar 11, 2015 4:41 pm
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I'll pass... :roll:

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Post subject: Re: Strat With 24 Frets?
Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2015 6:52 am
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Idea was semitones. Nothing unusual about this idea although it is more at home in Baroque and classical stringed instruments such as a Lute.
Rosewood fingerboard shows signs of being heavily played, the body does not reflect abuse.

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