I have always played Stratocasters, and I guess I enjoy the 25" scale, I hear the longer the scale, the highs are more accentuated...anyway I was looking for a new Fender, and a my local store I picked up an al black Jaguar with the double humbuckers, and I felt like I was playing a guitar built for four year olds... does anyone own a long scale and short scale and find the transition hard?? Or do you just get used to it?

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1965 Fender Precision Bass, 1994 Fender '54 Reissue Precision Bass, 2007 Applause Celebrity, 2011 Fender American Special Jazz Bass, 2012 Squier Vintage Modified Jazzmaster, 2013 Fender American Special Stratocaster, 2013 Gibson LPJ

Personally really like the Jaguar scale and go between it and 25 1/2 inch without noticing. Or for that matter, between those and 34 inch and 30 inch bass...

...guess it's all in doing the "instant mental adjustment" and playing what is at hand, so to speak.

Own ears are not so good where hearing the difference in certain pitch notes in different scales is that discernable. It's enjoying whatever instrrument is being played for its own nuances and merits.

Best of fortune.

I have a 24.75" scale Squier Stratocaster. I don't have any problems going between it and a regular Fender.

BTW Fender's standard scale is 25.5", not 25".

I have a 65 Jaguar and a 65 Mustang as well as several Strats-including a '65 and often took the Jag or Mustang as a backup guitar when gigging or sometimes used the Jaguar as the main guitar and a Strat or some other guitar for backup.I find the transition from one to the other and back no problem whatsoever.BTW you may think I'm being a gear snob, but I regard myself as a diehard traditionalist,but I don't regard the humbucker equipped Jaguars and Mustangs as Jags and Mustangs and only see them as another humbucker equipped guitar in a Jag or Mustang body.Many I'm sure disagree with me but after them all being single coil only for 50 years it's hard to accept them any other way,then again I'm the same way about HSS and HH Strats too.

You can toss off pretty fast licks on a short scale too if you are comfortable with the scale.

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'65 Strat,65 Mustang,65 Jaguar,4 more Strats,3 vintage Vox guitars,5 Vox amps,'69 Bassman with a '68 2-15 Bassman cab,36 guitars total-15asst'd amps total,2 vintage '60s Hammond organs & a myriad of effects-with a few rare vintage ones.