What's your preferred scale length?

[CGord]

This has probably been asked hundreds of times before, but what the hell.

Me, I like 25.5". I didn't always feel a difference, but the lowered tuning I'm currently using is what made me take notice. I've shied away from my Dean since dropping down to A, & it's because the low string is too floppy (& I currently use a .064 low string). I'll try going to a .068, but I'm pretty much done with that guitar if the larger string doesn't feel better, or if I go back to a higher tuning (drop C, maybe).

And this is a drag! Because there are many guitars still on my GAS list that are 24.75". I still lust after them just as much as I ever did, but I know that I won't be happy playing them unless I keep them tuned higher.

 

[Zhangliqun]

Re: What's your preferred scale length?

Gibson scale.

 

[Jackson Distortion]

Re: What's your preferred scale length?

Not sure because I only play Jackson's and usually that's dealing with longer scales. I guess I'm not anti shorter scales, but I don't really ever buy guitars with short scales. So, I didn't vote.

 

[BigAlTheBird]

Re: What's your preferred scale length?

Gibson/Gretsch (24.75, 24.6). Slinky.

 

[3'scompany]

Re: What's your preferred scale length?

I can't stand 25.5 scale length guitars. Dunno why, other than its probably due to the fact that of all the 12 years I've been playing every guitar I've owned has been either 25" (PRS) or 24.75".

You wouldn't think that 1/2 an inch would make that much of a difference, but stretches just seem really awkward on 25.5" scales and I've got pretty big mits. I guess its no different than someone greatly prefering a neck with slightly more/less girth or width to it. A little wood goes a long way... or so she says!

 

[Karmadog777]

Re: What's your preferred scale length?

I voted 24.75 gibby scale
but I have 4 guitars with a 25" scale , I think thats perfect
25.5" I dont care for the string tension,just feels too stiff

 

[Metalblaze]

Re: What's your preferred scale length?

25.5

 

[Sprinter]

Re: What's your preferred scale length?

25.5" works perfectly for me. I like the wider fret spacing, and higher string tension.

Sprinter

 

[mrturtle_91]

Re: What's your preferred scale length?

24.75"...feels a lot more comfortable and easier to play for me.

 

[Sludgenutz]

Re: What's your preferred scale length?

CGord, remember the $99 Washburn 7 string deal? I bought it as a test-of- concept. The biggest thing I learned was that I really like the uncrowded nature above the 9th fret! I have average sized hands.

Tonewise, my heart is about the darker Gibson tones, but I gotta say I would not mind seeing more 25.5" guitars with a flatter fretboard radius (un-Fender-like) in my future.

I voted Gibson scale, because I'm in no position to customize the specs of the gear I own.

 

[bungalowbill]

Re: What's your preferred scale length?

25 1/2 ......with 6100 fretwire

 

[Kac]

Re: What's your preferred scale length?

I'm a 25.5 guy converted to 24.75

Rock On!

 

[Aceman]

Re: What's your preferred scale length?

24.75 - but you knew that....

 

[cream123]

Re: What's your preferred scale length?

24"!

 

[JB_From_Hell]

Re: What's your preferred scale length?

I can play on anything, so I don't really have a favorite. If I were to get a custom made guitar, though, I'd use the 25.1" scale Ibanez uses on the SZ and old S Classics.

 

[tc]

Re: What's your preferred scale length?

i dont like small-spaced higher frets, so i dont enjoy really short scales. 25 1/2 for me, and i have small hands!!

 

[danglybanger]

Re: What's your preferred scale length?

...Anywhere between 24" and 24.75" no one can actually tell the diff.

(observe mullets at GC trying out a Cyclone, claiming the length is "too short" for them, and going back to an SG or something :laugh2

But I like it in that range. I have huge hands and wide fingertips and don't see how anyone has any trouble squeezing into the fraction of an inch smaller width between high frets...

25.5 feels like a bass a bit though after a while of playing Gibson or Jag scale.

 

[Fender_Punk]

Re: What's your preferred scale length?

25.5". 24" is okay if I don't have to go above the 12th fret and I'd only put up with it for a Jaguar. 24.75" bugs the hell out of me, but 25" even isn't so bad. Odd how that works eh?

 

[Axl H]

Re: What's your preferred scale length?

25,5" is where it is at for me.

I can use 24,75s without problems though, I just like the feel of Fender necks more.

 

[JohnnyGuitar]

Re: What's your preferred scale length?

I'm a freak.
I get along very well with the Fender scale because of my 25.5" scaled Gibson...

:biglaugh: