How to make a Kite Guitar: Difference between revisions

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 == Fret and Marker Placement ==
-To place the frets on a Kite guitar, simply replace the 12th root of 2 = 1.059463 with the 41st root of 4 = 1.034390. Or purchase a pre-slotted fingerboard from [https://precisionpearl.com/ PrecisionPearl.com]. It comes radiused, tapered and inlaid, so all you need to do is glue it on and put in the frets. Every 4th fret has a dot (fretboard marker), and every 12th fret has a double dot. Thus a 36-fret guitar is a 9-dot guitar.
+To place the frets on a Kite guitar, simply replace the 12th root of 2 = 1.059463 with the 41st root of 4 = 1.034390. Or purchase a pre-slotted fingerboard (some suppliers such as from [https://precisionpearl.com/ PrecisionPearl.com] can provide a fingerboard complete with radius, taper and inlays, so all you need to do is glue it on and put in the frets). Dots (fretboard markers) are placed every 4 frets in a cycle of single-double-triple. So, the 4th fret has a single dot, the 8th fret has double dots, the 12th fret has triple dots, and then the 16th fret is back to single, and so on.  Thus, a 36-fret guitar has 18 dots, and a 41-fret guitar has 19 dots.
 == String Gauges ==