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Post Re: NEW 8-string Railboards now available
same here
looking forward for a 12 stg railboard

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Post Re: NEW 8-string Railboards now available
Wow they look fab!


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Oooh very nice! 8-)

What exactly is the string spacing and group spacing, for comparison purposes?

EDIT: OOPS! Nevermind...I found it on the main Railboard page... :oops:

.400" for the string spacing and .600" for the group spacing, for inquiring minds that want to know. ;)

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Post Re: NEW 8-string Railboards now available
Looks interesting.

The metric conversion for string spacing is wrong on the web page.
.400 inches = 10.16 mm
.600 inches = 15.24 mm

Looks like maybe it was just copied from the 10 string dimensions.

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Post Re: NEW 8-string Railboards now available
Godsmonkey wrote:
I'm curious, why an 8 when popular demand has been for a 12? Im guessing it was easier to produce, since it appears to be a standard 10 with wider string spacing?


Bingo. Like the Stick Bass, it appears to use the same blank as its 10 string string brother. All that would need to change is the milling profile based on how it is intended to be set up.

My understanding that weight has been a reason why a 12 string hasn't been released yet. Significant hurdle when the board just can't be expanded to accommodate two extra strings.

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Post Re: NEW 8-string Railboards now available
Edited...

I'm curious why there is now a "group" spacing on this 8-string model, which is not present on the 8-string StickBass. I see how it might be useful for some tunings (e.g. Interior Dual Bass Reciprocal) but for a straight-across (Standard Bass 4ths) tuning, the larger gap between strings 5 and 4 would throw me off.

Update: as I look at the pictures more closely, it appears (to me) that the same Nut Flaps from the SB8 are being reused on this new instrument. Since these Nut Flaps are created for the standard SB8 instrument (with 0.410" spacing), this might also be the string spacing for the Railboard 8... except for the gap between strings 5 and 4.

Likewise, the base plate of the tailpiece on this instrument appears (to me) to be a two-piece version of the existing base plate of the SB8's tailpiece, split neatly in half along the centerline and mounted with a small gap between the two halves.

Using simple back-of-the-napkin math, the difference in overall fretboard width between the SB8 and the Railboard is around 0.25", but the actual gap between the two halves of the base plate looks to be less than this. It looks like approx 0.15", from what I can see. This would put the string spacing between strings 5 and 4 at approx 0.56".

Did I guess correctly?


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