28 5/8" Scale Length

[antique_dream]

Here's the deal:

I want to have a 7 string made by warmoth, but there is a problem. They use 25" scale length on their standard 7 strings. I have an Ibanez with a 25.5" scale and I feel I need it to be longer. Warmoth only offers one other scale length and that is 25 5/8". I know that some 7 strings use 27" scale (like the Stephen Carpenter model) and that you can use standard tuning. Would 28 5/8 be too long for standard tuning?

-thanks

[Scott Rosenberger]

it would probably be ok if you used 9's. Any thicker and you'd be asking for real trouble

[krazyderek]

28" is the scale used on the ibanez baritone, which is tuned down to B, but that's with a set of 14-68's...

[Scott Rosenberger]

Ibanez Baritones are 27" scale

[krazyderek]

must be a typo on the ibanez page then

http://www.ibanez.com/guitars/series.asp?s=mmm&l=e

[Guest Litchfield Custom Gutars]

Should work fine...call Warmoth to be sure...they have great customer service so I hear

[westhemann]

most baritones are 27",but i imagine they are always trying to out do each other ...

[antique_dream]

I called the and the guy said that I should be able to tune to standard BEADGBE.

Key word, though: "should" He didn't sound very sure about it.

I'm still kind of worried, so I might not do it.

Thanks anyway.

[krazyderek]

you could try and figure out the math of string tension then calculate it yourself then compare to "normal" string tension listed on d'addario or similar sites. course i haven't the fogieset how to do this just an idea

[G_urr_A]

http://www.pacificsites.net/~dog/StringTen...sionApplet.html

I've got 0.011-0.049 on my 25.5" guitar and I tune to Eb, which gives approx. 9kg per string. That's a lot stiffer than most people I know like, but it feels good to me.