Is this the stupidest use ever of fan frets?

[tauzero]

A Mobius Megatar 12-string with fan frets: https://auctions.gardinerhoulgate.co.uk/catalogue/lot/e53d7924c06085ff4c734b0b1af356dc/63b778f7668dabe928d3800924a99077/the-guitar-auction-four-day-sale-lot-42/

 

As it happens, I own (but can't play) a Megatar with the more rational parallel frets. How on earth are you supposed to play one with fan frets? And how would you string it as AFAIK all Megatar/Chapman Stick tunings have the bottom string in the middle of the fretboard? An idea whose time will never come. Unsurprisingly, it got left on the shelf at the auction.

 

[Woodinblack]

Indeed, that doesn't really make any sense. I assume thought that it isn't meant to be strung like a chapman stick?

[Stub Mandrel]

As a bass vi and a baritone guitar?

[Hellzero]

It could have been even more stupid: A fretless version...

[LowB_FTW]

2 minutes ago, Hellzero said:

It could have been even more stupid: A fretless version...

Fanned fretless?

 

Mark

[Hellzero]

Yep @LowB_FTW, and fanned fretless basses do exist: I saw a few.

[Paulhauser]

The normal (ie non-fanned) nut essentially negates the whole idea of multiscale?

I'm wondering if the dark grey thing is not a nut but a string guide and the first, fanned fret is a zero fret, then it's all good....I'm confused 🙂 
(if you zoom in you can see the cut slots for the strings on the "nut" )

[Woodinblack]

8 minutes ago, Paulhauser said:

I'm wondering if the dark grey thing is not a nut but a string guide and the first, fanned fret is a zero fret, then it's all good....I'm confused 🙂 

 

Yes, the first fret on a chapman style instrument would be the zero fret, as you can't tap an open string.