Talk:Fingerboard

message: This section only had fender and warmoth, which does not add anything to the page and in fact makes it seems suspiciously like advertising that they were here in the first place.   —Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.50.108.50 (talk) 00:56, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Deleted Popular Products Section

message: "Another advantage is that the player only needs to apply a fraction of the pressure to a scalloped fingerboard to make the note sound, as compared to a traditional fingerboard. This allows the guitarist to play faster, because they don't have to invest as much effort into fretting each note."
Sources? From everything i've read (including an interview with Yngwie, who's probably the most popular guitarist who plays scalloped fretboards) and from personal experience, scalloped necks do NOT help you play faster, it's actually more difficult to play fast on a scalloped neck. necroforest 23:06, 3 December 2006
As an owner of two Fender stats one scalloped and one non scalloped I can state that the scalloped neck does not magically enable one to play faster. It in fact makes no difference at all. The amount of pressure required to fret the note is similar if not exactly the same. I don't have any sources to back this up. This is purely personal experience playing on a standard strat and a Yngwie Malmsteen strat.
:I've added one source. --GreyCat 15:59, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Scalloping

message: the phrase "frets generally allow for more precise changes in pitch" is true in one sense and just the opposite of true in another sense.  For a beginner, frets make intonation more precise than it would be otherwise.  For a more advanced player, the precision necessary to control the nuance of a pitch so that it is higher or lower in different musical contexts is not generally aided by frets; in fact it is non-fretted instruments that allow this kind of pitch change (change within a single note instead of from note to note) to be controlled more precisely.  My questions: should this be spelled out in the article?  and if it should, how should it be phrased?  The way I have put it here seems too wordy to me. J Lorraine 04:31, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Frets and precision

message: THe diagram is confusing. The end nearest the viewer appears to be the bridge end when if fact it is referred to as the nut end in the text. Anyone else find it confusing?--Light current 22:57, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Why does it "appear to be the bridge"? It's a headstock end of neck towards the viewer. It's just a cross-section, without headstock glued in place. --GreyCat 09:43, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

text: That's barely so. It's perspective, and, moreover, it's standard drawing used by lots of companies to depict their guitars' neck proportions (Ibanez, Washburn, I even recall viewing similar drawings in Gibson and Fender catalogues). --GreyCat 06:51, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Standard or no standard, I assumed that the close end was the bridge as well. 142.59.153.99 01:34, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

text: In my opinion, it's not a confusing diagram. Just stating my opinion and referencing to other facts and other author of such diagrams. --GreyCat 14:44, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Diagram of neck

message: On some modern guitars, the radius of the fingerboard changes slowly from one end of the fingerboard to the other.  This is known as a "compound radius" fingerboard.  The nut end of the fingerboard has a smaller radius towards the nut to ease in forming chords.  The bridge end of the finger has a larger radius to prevent "fretting out" (having a string come into contact with a higher fret during a bend).
: How does the smaller radius help form chords?  Radius is useful on bowed instruments, because it lets the bow select individual strings. It's of no use on plucked instruments.  Compound radius is a compromise: radius sucks, but you can't eliminate it entirely due to the commercial reality that guitars do not have adjustable string height at the nut, and guitar nuts are pre-fabricated to a radius.   A compound radius can be accomodated using an off-the-shelf guitar nut, and an off-the-shelf bridge with adjustable-height saddles.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.79.96.174 (talk) 20:37, 10 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Compound Radius

message: I believe that both articles cover the same subject (fretboard and its' parameters / varieties) and effectively a radius article would make a perfect section / extension for this fingerboard article. I also plan to add some more diagrams and images to illustrate radius. --GreyCat 16:17, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge [[Radius (string instruments)]] here 

message: Also, same rationale: article about scalloped fingerboard is relatively short and effectively describes a particular varity or aspect of a fretboard. It would make fingerboard article more complete, a perfect section for one. --GreyCat 16:45, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge [[Scalloped fingerboard]] here 

message: This part makes no sense whatsoever.  From examining the (ad-like) accompanying photo, I think it's supposed to be discussing instruments with differing scale lengths from the treble to the bass.  None of the text manages to convey this, though.  Anyone care to delete?
:I'd agree. Have tagged this as confusing meantime in case anyone can clean it up to extract meaning and pertinence but in the current form it beats me. Would be happy to see it go. Mutt Lunker 22:11, 20 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It's an ad. Just traced a connection between the editor responsible for the original addition and the manufacturer: . Text seems to be taken from here too: . Will delete. Mutt Lunker 22:31, 20 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Just deleted it again. The wikipedia is not the place to publicise new products, however brilliantly conceived. After working musicians have adopted this design in numbers sufficient to validate the concept, then it will be encyclopedia material. __Just plain Bill 03:17, 22 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Defragmentation

message: I removed the external links, as they fail WP:EL; but they make sense as references. I am slapping a tag for lack of footnotes; adding them would solve the problem.--Legionarius (talk) 18:17, 4 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  External Links 

message: The proper term for the lengthwise curve of the fingerboard (neck, really) is "relief".  This comes up much more with guitar and mandolin family instruments as the relief can be adjusted.
Bravohalo (talk) 06:44, 20 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: The only one I've heard calling it "relief" on bowed strings also works on guitars and mandos. I hear it primarily called "scoop" on bowed strings. There, scoop is not applied to the maple neck, but to the ebony fingerboard, and will be addressed every time the fingerboard is dressed (planed, shaped, shot, finished...) One could argue that the upper half (towards the pegbox/scroll) of the fingerboard forms a structural part of the neck... but it's still the fingerboard that gets the treatment. __Just plain Bill (talk) 14:00, 20 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Scoop/Dip Section 

message: Manufacturing of Fingerboard was recently created. While conceivably eventually meriting a stand-alone article, I feel a merge to Fingerboard is appropriate until or unless the coverages is long enough to warrant splitting. --Animalparty-- (talk) 21:44, 22 April 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: For now, I don't see a need to do anything with it. This article could possibly use a section on the manufacture of fretted fingerboards, but that article is unsourced, and needs drastic copy editing to come up to minimum standard. Just plain Bill (talk) 17:04, 23 April 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Closing merge proposal given opposition and no support. Klbrain (talk) 15:13, 2 September 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Manufacturing of Fingerboard]]- likely merger candidate 

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message: Here's what I put at Talk:Manufacturing of Fingerboard, suggested late 2015 for merge into Fingerboard.
:==not written here, but worthless anyway==
:Seems to have been imported entirely from somewhere else. Would it kill ya to paraphrase a little?
:Arguably, ALL stopped note stringed instruments (well, mostly) have a fingerboard but most guitars have a fretboard. The viol family has fingerboards (though, per my note, there are fiddles played without pressing the string to a solid surface).
:The entry makes the gross misassumption that all fingerboards involve frets, require radiusing, and must be engineered so as to maximize "string bending" performance techniques.
:And then the entry dodges away from traditional inlay work (without CNC) AND how/why frets are installed.
:I see no reason for this to remain on its own. Poorly written, adds nothing to the conversation.
And I don't feel much better about fingerboard. I see no good reason that the intents of both should not be incorporated into frets. Weeb Dingle (talk) 18:04, 12 February 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: I have proposed Manufacturing of Fingerboard for deletion. Just plain Bill (talk) 16:23, 2 September 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: the purpose eludes me