I can see a smaller guitar having a shorter scale, since less string tension is needed to drive the reduced mass of a smaller soundboard. Maybe that's why Alistair was open to a shorter scale on an X7, but not on an X10.
You have experience with 650mm, 640mm, and 630mm nylon. If you were designing a custom guitar for yourself, with the intention of it being your main guitar, which scale length would you choose?
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