Dingwall Combustion - anyone got or played one?

[fretmeister]

I am drawn to one! Someone put me off before I get divorced!

[ezbass]

Sorry can't help, I feel the same need.

[purpleblob]

spacecowboy has one - checkout [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=87106"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=87106[/url]

[OutToPlayJazz]

I love everything about that bass apart from the Kermit green paint job, which is utterly hideous I'd like to try one, but any colour apart from that green. I'd be sick within ten paces of it, LOL!

[Chris Horton]

I have never played one but would love to try one out.

I love the style / look and even the Kermitt green colour

[Kev]

Briefly played one at Bass Direct a couple of weeks ago, its quite amazing how i could pick up the bass and play without looking with those frets. Pretty nice bass, does anyone know if Dingwall have a patent on that fret system?

[velvetkevorkian]

No. They're listed as using the "Novax fanned fret system"- Novax do/did (not sure if its still valid) have a patent on a method of laying out the frets IIRC but fanned fret instruments have been around for quite a long time.

[Kev]

[quote name='velvetkevorkian' post='854159' date='Jun 1 2010, 09:26 PM']No. They're listed as using the "Novax fanned fret system"- Novax do/did (not sure if its still valid) have a patent on a method of laying out the frets IIRC but fanned fret instruments have been around for quite a long time.[/quote]

Dingwall have been around for quite a long time

Nah i was just curious as i hadn't seen another fanned fret bass, i just gathered Novax was Dingwall's brand.

[purpleblob]

[quote name='Kev' post='854230' date='Jun 1 2010, 10:02 PM']Nah i was just curious as i hadn't seen another fanned fret bass, i just gathered Novax was Dingwall's brand.[/quote]

You've probably found these yourself but just to add to this discussion, here's the novax website where they talk about the fanned fret concept

[url="http://www.novaxguitars.com/info/concept.html"]http://www.novaxguitars.com/info/concept.html[/url]

actually they have some interesting stuff on the site. Interesingly Sei offer a fanned fret option and I know somewhere around here there's a Shuker fanned fretted bass build being documented.

Looks like Novax do license the fanned fret concept, see [url="http://www.novaxguitars.com/licensing.html"]http://www.novaxguitars.com/licensing.html[/url]

EDIT: Here's the Shuker thread - really nice looking single cut [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=31247"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=31247[/url], oh and here's a fanned fret Sei [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=31247"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=31247[/url]

Sorry I'll stop the information overload now

Edited June 1, 2010 by purpleblob

[Kev]

Il go to bed a wiser bassman cheers for the info buddy.

[velvetkevorkian]

The Novax patent ([url="http://www.google.com/patents?id=yektAAAAEBAJ&pg=PA2&dq=4,852,450&source=gbs_selected_pages&cad=3#v=onepage&q&f=false"]here[/url]) only covers one method of laying out the frets, using lines coming from a single point. There are simpler ways of doing it (mark the fretspaces on the longest and shortest strings then join them), while the concept of fanned frets per se has been around since the Renaissance ([url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orpharion"]link[/url]).


Wow, that was some serious procrastination when I have lots of things needing doing that are actually important

Edited June 1, 2010 by velvetkevorkian

[dlloyd]

[quote name='velvetkevorkian' post='854298' date='Jun 1 2010, 11:07 PM']The Novax patent ([url="http://www.google.com/patents?id=yektAAAAEBAJ&pg=PA2&dq=4,852,450&source=gbs_selected_pages&cad=3#v=onepage&q&f=false"]here[/url]) only covers one method of laying out the frets, using lines coming from a single point. There are simpler ways of doing it (mark the fretspaces on the longest and shortest strings then join them), while the concept of fanned frets per se has been around since the Renaissance ([url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orpharion"]link[/url]).[/quote]

In any case, the lifetime of a patent is 20 years and that one was filed in 1989.

[velvetkevorkian]

Ha- it took me a while to find it, as I thought it had expired but thought it took a lot longer than that!