Raised fingerboards

[romsmith]

Howdy folks.

Any of you build raised fingerboards? If you do, what do you change in the geometry, apart from pitching the neck forward to arrive at the same bridge height?

I'm investigating Gore's bolt-on/bolt off neck and Mike Doolin's designs as I'm designing my first steel string, so might as well look into raised fingerboards.

Thank you.

[jwsh...@q.com]

Rolo is well versed in raised finger boards! Scooter

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[Paul Micheletti]

I started work on an elevated fingerboard classical, but it hasn't gotten very far.  I keep working on other instruments instead of that one.

I'm doing the Greg Byers method of building on a solera that has a ramp to bend the soundboard at the lower transverse brace.  This method allows the string escape from the bridge to be parallel to the top as in a normal guitar.  

The other method is the Humphrey Millennium method where the neck is canted at an angle to a flat top.  My instructor has both and prefers the Byers method as playing the bass notes with ima fingers is really weird when the strings are so far above the top at the rosette as on the Humphrey.

[romsmith]

Thanks Paul. 

I was thinking about the flat+canted method. I've had 3 Viennesse-style guitars with bolt-on neck with the necks having to be installed at a very "funny" angle, and they all feel good in the hand - I don't think there's a lot of adaptation required from the player, unless you've never played such a design.

[【千】Sen Goh]

I covered this topic at previous discussions pertaining to elevated fingerboard for classical guitars.

You should be able to adapt it for steel string guitars too, just need to understand the difference in the neck geometry.

Once after you read thru the thread discussion, you might get a better idea how to proceed.

Elevated fingerboard on a classical

Question on recommended design parameters for elevated fingerboards...especially on classicals

[romsmith]

Thanks.