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Post subject: Re: the ones that got away.
Posted: Sun Nov 09, 2014 5:03 pm
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Yes, a couple of mm's can make the difference. I've started to consider a wider profile as well. More like a classical guitar, 44mm or so at the nut. I tried a "Fatback" for awhile (1" Deep U shape) with a standard nut (~43mm) and liked it pretty well. The 59 Roundback/~43mm nut/12 degree radius profile was the smallest profile I felt comfortable with. Also, the higher radius necks are much easier on large hands, Much less contorting when playing a folk style "F" chord or something like that. Anything less than 12 degree radius gets difficult to work with when trying to bar the high "E" string. The standard thin "C" shape with a radius of 9.5 feels really too small after a short time. So many nice guitars with tiny little necks on them :cry:

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Post subject: Re: the ones that got away.
Posted: Sun Nov 09, 2014 8:02 pm
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Deluxe Matt wrote:
So many nice guitars with tiny little necks on them :cry:

Shifting demographics, perhaps?
It's just my speculating, but I think that in the early days of electric guitar, there were far more players with West African or Northern European heritage, the two groups most likely to have larger hands. Then, electric guitar caught more on with people of Southern European or East Asian heritage, where the typical hand size is smaller.

And for the same reason, people in Kalamazoo, MI were likely to have bigger hands than those in Fullerton, CA, thus Gibsons have traditionally had larger necks than Fenders.

It's probably stretching it, but it might even help explain why 7- and 8-string metal guitars sell better in Scandinavia. :)


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