b'18 String GuitarShort scale, six courses of threeI made my first ever double neck foradjustment by using an extra wide strings, with an octave string eitherRon, and it was a pleasure to getsaddle, placing the piezo pickup in a side of the note, so that up andanother order, particularly one asnarrower slot underneath.down strokes produce a similarinteresting as this. With short strings, intonation is a sound. Ive made it for an old friendIt was a delight to make.Therelittle different to common practice, - Ron Cottam in Belgium, who Iwere several rather importantand lessons learnt with guitar strings have known since about 1973. Hedecisions, and we both had to makeat concert pitch do not apply. There was in a band called Lis Carroll withexperiments to see how the stringwas only one way- experiment, Rens Van Der Zelm, who now repairsspacing and neck width would workand it was a real pain having to instruments himself and often playsout. The string length was anothertake off eighteen strings every time with Andy Irvine. issue, taking on board the fingeran adjustment was needed to the That was a long time ago, when folkstretch, particularly because it issaddle. So I cheated - I asked Alex club accommodation for artists wastuned in fourths, like a guitar, not into do it.Im not sure if asked a bit variable. Ron decided that iffifths like a mandolin. is the right word, but as Ive said he slept on the floor, at least everyThen of course, the intonation waselsewhere, thats what I pay them for.night would feel the same. a big issue. I left plenty of room for 247'