I understood that Larry Pattis switched to a 24" scale length out of need due to shoulder issues or something like that. As such he's probably made at work because he had to. I tried to find the info but he's made over 11,000 posts here and it's just too much to look through. I did find one interesting statement from him though in this context. His personal opinion is that anything shorter than 25.4 is a short scale.
Apparently standard scale has switched over time. 24.9 used to be the standard with anything longer being "long scale." Now the most common standard is 25.5. Even Seagull has moved many of their guitars to 25.5 (they're standard used to be 24.84 across the line). Kevin Ryan's standard scale is 25.7 and then we have all sorts of people that are moving too many different fan fret scales to get the best of both worlds. In the end it all comes down to what works for you I guess.
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