The Bass thread (funk, Paul McCartney, guitar)

[mr dave]

no worries heheh, all it means is that you have two full octaves of range per string. it's not that the frets are smaller on a 24 fret neck, just that the playing area normally extends a little further onto the body.

there is such a thing as fret size (jumbo being quite popular now) it determines the size of the actual chunk of metal sticking out of the board and has virtually no bearing on the space between frets. the premise is that bigger frets make it easier to play due to needing less pressure from the finger to sound the note and allowing just a little more space between the string and the board so that bends ring out louder for longer.

fret size is really not something to worry about until you're to the point of recognizing annoyances based on technical limitations and wanting to build a custom instrument (at which point you'd likely be investing in stainless steel frets).