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hit and miss? wish I had a beater fretboard to practice on gonna use a small gouge

Try this instead:

scalloped potatoes

1 Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Grease a 9x13-inch baking dish.

2 Spread about 1/3 of the potato slices into the bottom of the prepared baking dish. Top with about 1/3 of the onion slices. ...

3 Heat milk in a saucepan until warm. ...

4 Bake in preheated oven until potatoes are tender, 45 to 60 minutes.

I can't imagine trying to play one. Works for single notes, but start playing chords ... uh-uh.

Description: You don’t feel wood under your finger, and if you pressed any more, the note would go sharp. As a result, it requires a light touch. With less effort on the fretting hand, your arm can be more relaxed, and it causes less pain. Traditional bends are especially easy, as the strings glide along the tops of the frets easier, and your fingers don’t drag along the fingerboard.

"Light touch" - I've got nice low frets on my Tele, super low action. With 9s on it, all I need is a light touch.

did you know that in order for Malmsteen to have the speed and clarity he mastered, he played a scalloped neck? plus they are just plain cool looking looking at them from a side view

try it on a guitar in a music shop first. looks gimmicky as hell to me. maybe fun to experiment with, but like Mike says, chords. And Malmsteen? You know he's as much a walking punchline as Kenny G these days, right?

I think it just takes a much lighter touch to get a note, and with a lighter touch you don't have to spend as much time with that note, and it equals out to faster speed since the time has been shortened for each note, I wonder if the playing finger actually touches the wood of the fretboard?

GuitarMikeB wrote:I can't imagine trying to play one. Works for single notes, but start playing chords ... uh-uh.

Description: You don’t feel wood under your finger, and if you pressed any more, the note would go sharp.

Mike, with the egos as large as they are on many contributors to this forum are, do you think for a minute their overtly large egos will let them admit that they are playing out of tune? (if they can even hear their bad intonation in the first place)

glad you are back.. the place just ain't the same without you ..

LOL...not sure if that's a compliment or another backhanded swipe.

so, i'll just say thanks.

Dayne Nobody IV wrote:I think it just takes a much lighter touch to get a note, and with a lighter touch you don't have to spend as much time with that note, and it equals out to faster speed since the time has been shortened for each note, I wonder if the playing finger actually touches the wood of the fretboard?

Speed ain't all its cracked up to be.

Dayne Nobody IV wrote:I think it just takes a much lighter touch to get a note, and with a lighter touch you don't have to spend as much time with that note, and it equals out to faster speed since the time has been shortened for each note, I wonder if the playing finger actually touches the wood of the fretboard?

Sane,

Are you truly so fast that the lightness of touch and the speed in which you can hit a note are essential to your creative playing ability? If that is the case you should most certainly scallop a neck for your faster compositions.

I would just like to see how a scalloped fretboard feels, since they don't have any of these in stock in Springfield guess I will never know ..

http://www.zzounds.com/item--FEN107110?siid=52625

has anybody here played a scalloped fretboarded guitar? if so, can you explain the feel of it?..

Some of us had a 'Stratocaster' party a couple weeks ago where we 'oohed and ahhed' each other's various strats. The main course was a setup on a guitar a friend had bought.

I consider what it takes to get a guitar just the way you want it, I'd be pretty resistant to making it harder on myself. It has to be right at so many levels.

Although, like Dayne I'd like to play one just see what it feels like.

Talbot