Licensing
Build a Better Guitar
Klein Electric Guitars with Novax
Licensed Fanned Fretboards and a pretty cute cat.
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If you want to build a guitar with superior tone, intonation
and playability, Novax® Guitars is ready to support your
entry into the ever growing family of Fanned-Fret® luthiers.
Ralph Novak was awarded U.S. patent 4,852,450 for the innovative
Fanned-Fret® design. Novax® is making the Fanned-Fret®
system available to luthiers through our licensing program.
Our licensing fee is $75.00, US for a single instrument paid
in advance of construction. Production runs of 10 instruments
or more are licensed at $55.00 per instrument. Instruments
built outside of the U.S. do not require licensing unless
they are sold in the U.S.
To license with Novax® Guitars, please send, via standard
mail, your request to build along with the fee of $75.00 per
instrument to be built. We will return mail our agreement
for you to sign and return to us. In addition, we will forward
the instructions and information you will need to slot your
Fanned-Fret® neck. We will also support your project by
answering questions you may have relating to the neck scale
length, calculations, etc.
Ervin Somogyi and 2 of 3 guitars
with Novax-licensed
Fanned Fretboards for the California Guitar Trio.
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If you'd like some insight on slotting a Fanned-Fret®
neck we highly recommend luthier Mike
Doolin's web page Cutting a Novax® Fretboard.
Novax® Guitars does not slot fretboards for instruments
other than our own. If you'd like to build a Fanned-Fret®
guitar or bass but would prefer to not slot your own neck,
Check out our Nex page for a Novax® neck to fit your next
project.
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