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What radius do you or your customers prefer and on what type of guitar? Factories seem to span from 12-16 inch for steelstrings, curious what everyone else is doing.

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Brian

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My standard if a spec guitar is a compound radius, 12" at the nut to 16" at the 20th fret.

Chuck

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I use a compound type radius of 14" at the nut - 20" at the 21st fret (termination of the board)


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How do you do a compound radius? do I make the board 16", and then sand the first 10 frets with the 10" block, or is there more to it?

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You can do it by hand but a jig is more repeatable.


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So how do you make a jig for it, and what if I don't have a belt or thickness sander, because the only radius jigs (which allows the possibility of a compound radius) requires either one...

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No it doesn't. Most require a router. Do a search there are many threads here on compound jigs.


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So what are you guys building with compound radii? Dreads for flatpickers? OM's for fingerstyle?

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Brian

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Everything I build now has a compound type radius. For either flat pick or finger style.

00 to GA


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Mine are also all compound radius. Parlor to dred.

Chuck

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