My next project is going to be an 8 string electric, and as I'm trying to make it appeal to the maximum amount of people I thought I'd ask this community's opinion.
My question regards to scale length/style. My thoughts for this guitar was a fanned fret instrument working between 27 and 29 inches. Would you prefer a straight up baritone? If so at what scale length? If you like the idea of the fan, would you change the scale lengths?
I also have another option regarding the fan. If I do decide to use it I have to choose my vertical fret (where the 2 scale lengths line up). This can in theory be anywhere on the instrument, though on my previous fanned fretter I chose the 12th for ease and symmetry. Would you metal chaps prefer it around the fifth so rhythm playing feels more "normal"?
Anyways, let me know what you think
