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Barklessdog
Posts : 393
Join date : 2009-03-27
Age : 64
Location : Chicagoland
|  Subject: Short scale Thu Jul 30, 2009 2:12 pm | |
| Anyone ever see or try a Kahler on a short scale (30") bass ?
I think my EB-0 is 2 & 1/8th " total from G to E at the bridge. | |
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Chowderboots
Posts : 2197
Join date : 2009-03-22
Age : 32
Location : Kirkistan, WA
| | Subject: Re: Short scale Thu Jul 30, 2009 6:01 pm | |
| I haven't, but I really want to put one on my Ibanez Destroyer, which is 32" scale. | |
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Barklessdog
Posts : 393
Join date : 2009-03-27
Age : 64
Location : Chicagoland
| | Subject: Re: Short scale Fri Jul 31, 2009 4:35 am | |
| I would think with the lower tension of a short scale or medium scale whammy effects would increase. I know the cam only pivots so much, but it will be like a rubber band. | |
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Chowderboots
Posts : 2197
Join date : 2009-03-22
Age : 32
Location : Kirkistan, WA
| | Subject: Re: Short scale Fri Jul 31, 2009 10:09 am | |
| Yeah, I'd assume so--with the lower tension, you're going to have greater range and easier trem action, but I assume that like using lighter gauge strings with a trem, you'll get more rattle off the frets and you'll have to set the action higher. | |
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Barklessdog
Posts : 393
Join date : 2009-03-27
Age : 64
Location : Chicagoland
| | Subject: Re: Short scale Fri Jul 31, 2009 10:28 am | |
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- you'll have to set the action higher.
Already done on my EB0 | |
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Chowderboots
Posts : 2197
Join date : 2009-03-22
Age : 32
Location : Kirkistan, WA
| | Subject: Re: Short scale Fri Jul 31, 2009 11:04 am | |
| Come to think of it, isn't that what a lot of "Texas-style" Strat players attribute to that thick sound they get--high action and thick strings? | |
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Darkstrike
Posts : 839
Join date : 2009-03-22
| | Subject: Re: Short scale Sat Aug 01, 2009 8:13 am | |
| With the lower tension you'd more easily get away with two springs too!  | |
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Chowderboots
Posts : 2197
Join date : 2009-03-22
Age : 32
Location : Kirkistan, WA
| | Subject: Re: Short scale Sat Aug 08, 2009 9:50 am | |
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bass_lord_mutha
Posts : 3
Join date : 2011-06-02
Age : 39
Location : West Texas
| | Subject: Re: Short scale Thu Jun 02, 2011 10:21 pm | |
| I just bought an Epiphone EB-0 as a project bass that has a 2410 on it. The guy that installed it (who sold it to the guy I bought it from) did a hack-job on the rout and it is slightly off-center to the bass side and it divebombs great but raising up on it causes it to rub since the rout isn't deep enough. I'll probably clean those issues up sometime next week, but otherwise right now, it's strung with .045-.105 in standard EADG and other than the rub it works great.  | |
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Barklessdog
Posts : 393
Join date : 2009-03-27
Age : 64
Location : Chicagoland
| | Subject: Re: Short scale Fri Jun 03, 2011 4:22 am | |
| It looks great on the bass, nice to know that it can work. | |
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