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Post subject: Fast play thin guitar for short tiny guy?
Posted: Sat Apr 04, 2015 11:24 am
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I'm 164cm tall. Weight is 48.1 kg. Age is 22 years.
I have Les paul guitar. Problem is thickness of neck and body weight.
I like my les paul sound. I realized that fender and squier makes great thin guitars.

I play punk, crossover(mix of metal and punk), post, rock, blues, reggae, rocksteady, ska
I like heavy distorion and reverb. Jaguar, tele or mustang? I don't like strat so much.
I'm looking best fast play guitar. Thin neck, not so thick and big body, two pickups also few knobs as tele have.
Blacktop telecaster sound great. Any recommendations ?


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Post subject: Re: Fast play thin guitar for short tiny guy?
Posted: Sat Apr 04, 2015 2:05 pm
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JantanTabu wrote:
I'm 64m tall.

64 meters?
That's gigantic...

If Blacktop Tele feels comfortable--go for it.

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Posted: Sat Apr 04, 2015 3:13 pm
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Sorry my bad. I'm 164cm


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Posted: Sat Apr 04, 2015 6:06 pm
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JantanTabu wrote:
Sorry my bad. I'm 164cm


how tall is that ? Ron Wood tall, Kirk Hammett tall, Lenny Kravitz tall etc..? Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
Welcome to the Forum JT.

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Post subject: Re: Fast play thin guitar for short tiny guy?
Posted: Sun Apr 05, 2015 6:33 am
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JantanTabu wrote:
I'm 164cm tall. Weight is 48.1 kg. Age is 22 years.
I have Les paul guitar. Problem is thickness of neck and body weight.
I like my les paul sound. I realized that fender and squier makes great thin guitars.

I play punk, crossover(mix of metal and punk), post, rock, blues, reggae, rocksteady, ska
I like heavy distorion and reverb. Jaguar, tele or mustang? I don't like strat so much.
I'm looking best fast play guitar. Thin neck, not so thick and big body, two pickups also few knobs as tele have.
Blacktop telecaster sound great. Any recommendations ?



Well, first off let me say that even though I'm a fairly big guy myself (6'2", 240 lbs), I've always found Les Pauls rather uncomfortable to play. Between the body shape and the weight (not to mention the stickin' price), I've just never really had any fondness for them. With this in mind, while Strats and Tele's are great (I currently own 10 Strats of various lineage...personally I love them!), I might actually suggest you try something like a Fender Mustang instead. They still have a great (if somewhat unique) sound and they are more...err..."compact" and much easier to manage than a Les Paul. Along with that however, I would also suggest that you simply go to a few music stores and play as many instruments as you can until you find something that you're comfortable with.

I suspect that the problem you're going to run into, regardless of any brand you choose to go with, is going to be the neck. Barring the pros and cons of various neck profiles, "full size" guitars in general tend to have fairly comparative neck sizes, whether you're talking Fender, Gibson or the majority of other brands out there. Even the "Mini Strats", while they're a shorter scale, typically have a neck thickness pretty comparable to a typical Strat or Tele. There are of course notable exceptions...both of my 12 strings for example (an Ovation Standard Balladeer and a '73 Conn F series) both have some rather serious logs attached to the bodies and certainly Fender has made their share of baseball bats over the years (LOL). On the other side of the scale, Rickenbackers are legendary for their ultra thin necks (which might be worth a look for ya, but they are really pricey and tend to have larger bodies as well). So again you may just be better off hitting up a few music stores and just trying a lot of different guitars so that you can find one that's a good fit.

Sorry if that wasn't much help, but good luck!


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Post subject: Re: Fast play thin guitar for short tiny guy?
Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2015 10:23 am
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Maybe try out the different HH's fender has to offer, like the AmSpec series Mustang, the Standard HH Series Tele & Jag...
And definitely check if you like the Squier's J5 Telecaster models.

On the size factor; it really doesn't matter. There are plenty of guitarists who are small and great at the same time.


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Posted: Sat Jun 20, 2015 2:10 pm
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JantanTabu wrote:
I'm 164cm tall. Weight is 48.1 kg. Age is 22 years.
I have Les paul guitar. Problem is thickness of neck and body weight
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Any recommendations ?

I know it's not a Fender, but I have 2 of these - one at my office and one for travel:
Ibanez Mikro Guitar.

They're low cost, easy to setup, have excellent mid to hot output and offer 24 frets on a 3/4 scale guitar. Lots of colors, too.


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