Microtonal Ascendant 6 String Bass Demo - All Native UK Woods

[@Emily_M81]

thanks for sharing, this is really cool :)

[@mantoncustoms]

Thank you! 🙏🏼 😃

[@4L10]

Hi! Nice bass. Just one point I'd like to make is that when you have a zero fret, the nut material has zero effect on open string sound or sustain. The zero fret already takes over the job. I mean, this bass obviously has no small cost saving concerns about it and probably it's a lot easier to just put the more expensive nut on there than explaining this to the customer. So there's that. :)

[@mantoncustoms]

Thanks for watching. Yep, that’s true, a zero fret can give a more consistent open sound, the nut just holds the strings in place really. A zero fret was requested for this build, normally I use a standard nut.

[@JCsWorkshop]

hello, beautiful look, I am in France and I plan to make one soon with oak and pieces of mahogany, your guitar shape is magnificent it gives me lots of ideas, on the other hand I am left-handed so I reverse everything and it will be my first guitar and after I will learn to play ... lol is it a plan of your realization or is the drawing available? thank you

[@mantoncustoms]

Thank you! Glad you like it. The design is my own shape which I drew up originally around 7 years ago. Good luck with your oak build!

[@SelfPropelledDestiny]

I have no idea how you mean 0.7 of a fret? Equal temperaments (EDO, TET) must be in whole integers, no?

[@mantoncustoms]

It means there is no octave fret on the same string. So fret 18 is as close as you get which will be sharp compared to the octave.

[@feuerstreuer6393]

This is not nech-throu build (5:48) So many frets and the tuning problem is not solved - zero frets is the better version. So you have the same problem between harmonic thirds and tempered thirds.

[@mantoncustoms]

Yes, it’s a set neck. It was not designed/intended to solve any of the problems standard 12 octave fretting has.