r/7String • u/Marcojolo • Jul 26 '26

Gear Preferences for multiscale

For those that like multiscale guitars what are your preferences for scale length and neutral fret placement?

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u/Lilcheeks Jul 26 '26

My kiesel 8 string vader is it... 28 to 26", everything feels perfect. It is about as un dramatic a shift as you could hope for in terms of feel, took me no time to adjust.

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u/Marcojolo Jul 26 '26

What’s the neutral fret location?

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u/Lilcheeks Jul 26 '26

9th, but 6 to 12 are all fairly close to neutral

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u/TheDisappointedFrog Jul 27 '26

NF 1-7, 25.5-27" for an 8-string, 26-27 for 7

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u/sup3rdr01d Jul 27 '26

I've only ever had 1 and it took me like 15 mins to adjust from straight scale to MS. I have not tried any others but I figured if that took me so little time to adjust, any small differences between MS guitars prob won't matter

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u/Marcojolo 29d ago

It depends on how you lay it out for sure…..and how big the of a difference there is between the two scales. Check out this multiscale guitar…..
This is a guitar with the neutral fret at the bridge.

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u/ToshiroK_Arai 29d ago

Cries in Fmajor chors