Question 24 inch scale length

[Spudmurphy]

I bought my first guitar in 1970 - a Watkins (WEM) Rapier 44 which had a 24 inch scale length.
I recently got (for nostalgia reasons) a similar guitar and I enjoy playing it.
Now unfortunately EM MM doesn't produce a 24 inch scale guitar - but just as a matter of interest how many people here would buy one if they did? (assuming that it had your pickup requirements).
Just wondering????

 

[PeteDuBaldo]

24 as in shorter than 24.75? Man that's tight and tiny, would certainly be fun to try.

 

[Spudmurphy]

24 as in shorter than 24.75? Man that's tight and tiny, would certainly be fun to try.

Yes Pete 24 dead. Google it and you may be surprised at the guitars that use that scale length.
The tension is a lot less and makes string /double stop bending a dodle.

Yeah I likes it.

 

[Tim O'Sullivan]

I had a Brian May guitar with a 24" scale and it was a little tight after playing 25.5" scale guitars for years. The strings were just too bendy!

 

[rjudo]

I don't know about 24 inch, but I would pay a whole lot of money for a 24 3/4 scale Reflex.

 

[Spudmurphy]

I had a Brian May guitar with a 24" scale and it was a little tight after playing 25.5" scale guitars for years. The strings were just too bendy!

Interesting Tim, I didn't know the BM had a 24" Neck?

Yes they are bendy - but hey, a possible solution would be to use much heavier gauge strings - and they'd still be relatively bendy lol

 

[John C]

Spud - Dr. May's original has a 24" scale so all the replicas do as well. That being said the neck on the original Red Special was a log - really thick in depth. I was able to play a few of the Guild versions that were out in the 1990s - it's very different from playing say a Fender Mustand or Jaguar; even with the short scale it was a lot of neck to wrap your hands around. I haven't stumbled across any of the current imported replicas so I don't know what the current ones are like.

 

[stingray96191]

The Armada is 24" isn't it? It's real close..

 

[Gio_Force_One]

Yes I thought the armada is 24 also

 

[Sweat]

Straight from the Music Man website- Armada Scale- Scale Length:24.75" (62.9cm)

 

[TNT]

Nope, a tad too short.

 

[Spudmurphy]

Yup I see that the armada is 24.75. I'm looking at 24 dead - although I'd love to try an Armada.

Don't really want to discuss other guitars, but all I would say is that the BM guitar doesn't float my boat.

Oh well, I'll stick with my rapier for now.

 

[Tim O'Sullivan]

Spud - Dr. May's original has a 24" scale so all the replicas do as well. That being said the neck on the original Red Special was a log - really thick in depth. I was able to play a few of the Guild versions that were out in the 1990s - it's very different from playing say a Fender Mustand or Jaguar; even with the short scale it was a lot of neck to wrap your hands around. I haven't stumbled across any of the current imported replicas so I don't know what the current ones are like.

I had a Burns and one of the newer BHM guitars. They all have big necks and 24" scale. Now back to the EBMM discussion!

 

[nicktao]

My LP already feels like a toy...