Then I drew the neck in 2D and made curves on selected places and used loft command to make a 3D body. I changed some lines so the guitar would look better and center the neck and the body. I had to unlock the lines or else I couldn't move them. Then I saved the file as SVG and opened it in Fusion 360. You can see the scale length above the guitar, 635 mm. I also designed a guitar body and headstock in Inkscape and put them together to get some idea what I was going to do. I wrote the numbers I got from the fret position calculator and set the guidelines where each fret is located. Then I used Inkscape to draw the frets in right proportions. Then I used the Fret Calculator on Stewmac to calculate the fret position, which is the image to the right. On Stewmac they explain the scale lenght as:Ī guitar's scale length is calculated by measuring the distance from the front edge of the nut, where it butts against the end of the fingerboard, to the center of the 12th (octave) fret, then doubling that measurement. I decided to go with the Paul Reed Smith, 24 frets and scale length 635 mm (25"), which you can see on the bottom of the image below.
I went to and found a list of common scale lengths. I wanted to make an electric guitar, so the first thing I did was to find a scale length. What tasks have been completed, and what tasks remain?
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