Monday, September 15, 2008

Scott French Bowable SF3

Posted by Jon in • Cool Guitars in • Crazy Guitar Designs

Scott French SF3
There are 2 things I find really interesting about this Scott French SF3 guitar. The first is the bridge which resembles the bridge of a traditional bowed instrument such as a Violin and the nut which, well kind of doesn’t exist and is instead replace with individual guides:

“Open notes sound the same as fretted notes with a Zero Fret. Directly mounted Individual String Guides are solidly mated with the neck. The elements are round to match the circular theme established with the Braille logo, truss rod cover, tuner posts, knobs, etc. They also help avoid the ugly butt joints usually used with normal bar shaped nuts.“ - check out a close up image here.

There isn’t so much information available about the bridge other than that it is a custom Ebony bridge with Graphite saddles. This custom bridge has been created with a radius that allows the strings to be bowed, obviously trying to bow an individual string on a traditional flat radius bridge is very tricky. A custom pair of Nordstrand humbuckers have been created for this guitar which also follow the radius of the bridge.

The only problem with this guitar would be that it would be hard to play normally so it is a very specific kind of guitar but this is obviously a one off created for Austin Amberg. The normal version of the SF3 has a Hipshot Baby Grand bridge so no need to buy a bow for it!

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GLW on 09/16 at 05:02 AM

Have you seen the TogaMan Bowed Guitar?

http://www.bowedguitar.com/

Jon on 09/16 at 09:09 AM

That’s weird! It looks more violin than guitar and that playing position, yuk! I don’t think I could bring myself to play one of those?

GLW on 09/16 at 08:34 PM

No, it’s not something that I have an impulse to try either, but nevertheless is interesting.

mitch from garden furniture on 09/24 at 10:16 PM

looks like a cool guitar to play and experiment with but I wouldn’t use it as my main guitar!

suzuki fairings on 09/30 at 10:08 AM

Yeah. It looks more violin than a guitar to me also, but I like it.

on 11/08 at 04:33 PM

yee fuck yeah

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