Hey Railboard owners who own wooden Sticks as well.....

Are you finding that you have to adjust the truss as much on the RB as you would on the wooden Sticks? I don't have one so I'm curious George right now (sans banana)

Cheers,
kev

ps....
whos jonesing for the 12 string RB? Me..... thats who....

Hi Kev.

I'm jonesing for a RB 10 string grand.... lol

HI Kev, not at all. Only had to do it once, and that's because I messed with the tuning. Once I got back to MR I just put it back the way Emmet set it up. So, 4 months no truss adjustment required...
Cheers
Rodrigo

Not to hijack the thread, but the Railboard already has string spacing on par with the 10 string grand. So now you have no excuse to not get one

Hi Kev,

...Railboards and Graphite-Sticks are more stable than wooden sticks,
that means more tuning efforts and more work with the truss...
...but all of them are perfect to play...
...wood is a natural material and it is in touch with it's environement more than
aluminium or graphite...
...about the bamboo instruments I can't tell anything because I havent't seen one so far...

...don't mind if your stick is out of tune, just tune it, and if you need a turn on the truss,
why hesitate?...

...and with my best whishes....

the Railboard spacing is between the Ten String Grand and the regular 10-string... FYI.

Ah, thanks for clearing that up, Greg. I knew I should have actually checked numbers like a good boy.

Standard 10 (Reference point):

0.320" (8.13mm) string spacing, +0.00%
0.430" (10.92mm) group spacing, +0.00%

Railboard:

0.340" (8.64 mm) string spacing, +6.25%
0.470" (11.94 mm) between bass/melody +9.30%

10 Grand:

0.350" (8.89 mm) string spacing, +9.38%
0.500" (12.7 mm) between 5ass/melody, +16.3%

12 Grand:

0.300" (7.62 mm) string spacing, -6.25%
0.380" (9.14 mm) between bass/melody, -11.6%




And now to make it so I'm hijacking the thread less:

I would imagine the aluminum wouldn't need as frequent or drastic of adjustment, especially if it's not being subjected to extreme differences

The main truss difference between the Railboard and the wood/bamboo instruments is that the typical adjustment on the wood instruments is a "pulling" adjustment, and on the Railboard it's a little bit of a "pushing" adjustment, with the nuts spun out to the end of the threads.

This is a generality, though, yet it is a good thing that Emmett's truss design is a "four-way" design!