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Murray MacLeod Compensated saddles? (15) RE: Compensated saddles? 05 Jul 10


A minor point, Richard, but it is by no means the case that most guitars these days have compound radius fretboards.

Among factory built guitars, ie Martin, Taylor and Gibson, the fretboards are still universally produced with a constant radius, 16" in the case of Martins, 15" in the case of Taylors.

Making a compound radiused fretboard (or "conical" radiused to be strictly correct terminology -wise) is a much more time consuming and labour intensive operation than making a constant radiused fretboard, ergo ...


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