String Spacing Options?

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Author Message echo008 Intermediate Member Username: echo008 Post Number: 189 Registered: 2-2003 Posted on Saturday, July 01, 2006 - 3:45 pm:    Hi, What is the difference between the Standard narrow spacing and the Wide spacing option? Is wide spacing standard J bass spacing (which i think is 19mm) - Tom adriaan Senior Member Username: adriaan Post Number: 952 Registered: 6-2002 Posted on Sunday, July 02, 2006 - 5:39 am:    Wide is 19mm at the bridge. Narrow is 17mm, and I think classic is 17mm at both the bridge and the nut. You can specify the spacing when you order - on neck-throughs I think it's a free option. echo008 Intermediate Member Username: echo008 Post Number: 191 Registered: 2-2003 Posted on Sunday, July 02, 2006 - 7:26 am:    Gotcha. Thanks The Essence I bought has the "Wide" option, I just wanted to confirm 19mm at the bridge - Tom flaxattack Senior Member Username: flaxattack Post Number: 1178 Registered: 4-2004 Posted on Sunday, July 09, 2006 - 9:39 am:    alembic will pretty much tailor the neck to your liking if you tell them the spacing,scale and the nut width mica can give you the details i did this on my direwolf which is 1.75 nut- 32 scale and .500 speacing- my width at the bridge is just shy of 2.5 inches flaxattack Senior Member Username: flaxattack Post Number: 1179 Registered: 4-2004 Posted on Sunday, July 09, 2006 - 9:40 am:    alembic will pretty much tailor the neck to your liking if you tell them the spacing,scale and the nut width mica can give you the details i did this on my direwolf which is 1.75 nut- 32 scale and .500 speacing- my width at the 24th fret is just shy of 2.5 inches echo008 Intermediate Member Username: echo008 Post Number: 200 Registered: 2-2003 Posted on Sunday, July 09, 2006 - 10:29 am:    I like the wide option, its not really "wide" but more like a "standard" spacing (think J bass), still very comfortable, no stetching. with that said... If I were to order one today though I believe i would still go with there narrow spacing and a smaller scale length (32in) The Brown Bass I had ... I really liked the string spacing but was not too fond of the 30 inch scale. - Tom lbpesq Senior Member Username: lbpesq Post Number: 1458 Registered: 7-2004 Posted on Sunday, July 09, 2006 - 10:30 am:    I can confirm Flax's post that Alembic will do what you want. My favorite neck is on my '61 Strat, so I brought it up to Santa Rosa and they copied it for my in progress custom Further (maybe that should be the name of the guitar: "In Progress") LOL Bill, tgo