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Seriously though, I hope you get it worked out and get back on. Heat wave in New Hampshire this coming week. Gonna get into the 30s and 40s! Time for shorts and T-shirts after the last few weeks!!! |
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I went for a 24.9" scale length on my Emerald, though it is an X7, not an X20. Love it - fabulous guitar!
I have not tried 24.6", but am guessing that would work well too. Very close to the 24.75" scale that lies at the low end of what is considered "short scale". |
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A standard 25.5" scale with a capo placed on the first fret is right at about 24", give or take 1/10". So tuning down a half-step and capo'ed (capo'ing ??) on the first fret makes for a pretty short scale by most standards. The Taylor GS Mini is 23.5" and the CA Cargo is 22.75" for comparison. I don't recall the measurement for capo 2 offhand, but it is fairly short.
To consider what a 24.6" scale would feel like on my custom X20-12 before finalizing the order, I did just this on my Taylor for about three weeks. The reduced string tension was noticeably lighter, and the chord reaches were easier too. |
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Haha, that’s funny. I can identify with anyone needing to escape such cold extremes. When we flew from Canada, it was -40C (with wind chill) which is the temp where C and F are the same. Bloody cold! So Methos...get out of the cold...bring your X20 down to Fort Myers Beach and we’ll have a good ‘ole time.
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But I'm pretty happy with the 24.6" scale on the X20-12. I don't want to mess with down-tuning from E-e and using a capo on a twelve string, to play along with others. It's no big deal on a six string....... I'm retuning all the time anyway, using seven different slack-key tunings. And I keep one guitar in D-d all the time (medium gauge strings) for better vocal comfort on certain songs. That one is easy to capo back up to pitch when needed. |
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I actually did this with a Bourgeois Slope D Custom I had. Got it in a trade and it was a long scale. I liked the guitar well enough so thought about keeping it. Since we play some songs down a half step anyway that meant tuning down a whole step and then capo'd at 1 would be a half step down. It seemed to work just fine and the strings had less (more comfortable) tension but in the end I sold it anyway.
Even with the 24.6" scale when I remove the capo the scale seems 'long' compared to the songs capo'd at frets 1, 2, or 3 thus proving once again that ultimately we get used to what we have. We're so spoiled these days with the plethora of nut widths, string spacings, scales, tone woods, body sizes (and on and on and on)! |