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Anything under 1-3/4" is uncomfortable and confining to me - my fingers get tangled up in first position especially when playing fingerstyle. The 1-7/8" neck on my Cordoba GK Studio was near perfect to me and my classical has 2-1/8" which is wonderful. Oh, and I don't have large hands at all.
Originally Posted by mr. beaumont
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08-25-2018 10:23 PM
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Since we are discussing it... the problem for me is not that everyone has different preferences, that's totally fine, but that guitar builders in general cater unproportionally toward that one category, players who like their necks wide. I mean, my preferences are highly underrepresented on the market right now.
Like when Guild started to reissue their old archtops, I grabbed one and loved it, nice 1 5/8 neck, like the old original ones. I sold it to get the real vintage... But if I decide to buy a new one again today, they changed the specs already! Now it's a standard Gibson type neck. Basically Fender is trying to do the same thing it seems.
Funny that some very high profile manouche guitar builders didn't get the memo apparently! I played a few on Gypsy jazz jam recently, the necks are super narrow and fat, very comfortable. Archtop builders should take a notice.
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Given that this is a Telecaster thread, I don't see this. What current production Fender Telecaster has a nut that is 1 3/4" wide or wider? Originally Posted by Hep To The Jive
I don't know about Guilds and gypsy guits, but for Fenders???
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Smaller nut spacing and therefore cramped stringspacing is for lazy rock and roll players with limited chord knowledge and fuzz pedals!
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Not that there's anything wrong with having a fuzz pedal Originally Posted by jazzbow
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I guess there are some folks who just need a smaller neck (narrow/thin) because of hand size or physical problems and that's OK - use whatever is comfortable and helps you play well. Never could understand fuzz pedals, though - they enable you to make a $1000 guitar sound like a $100 guitar playing through an amp with blown speakers. Not music to me but whatever floats your boat. Originally Posted by jazzbow
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Haha there is too many things wrong with this statement! Originally Posted by jazzbow
but I tell you playing chords is what I do 80% of the time, and I don't think my knowledge is too limited. I play them all over the neck, chord solos and stuff... And for me the narrow neck is easier to pull that off, all those little barres and double stops.
i wonder how much a style of playing affects your preferences... I think I've heard some old acoustic archtops had narrow nut width because swing players who specialized in strumming preferred that. I might be wrong though.
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Afflicted as I am with fat fingers (my school nickname was spoons) narrow spacing work well for rawk ken rawl!
I am also old so sweeping statements abound don't you know.
Here's another.
Introspective belly fluff pondering lyric with spiky twang does nothing to inform the youth on true musicianship.
B##tad 5 minute wonders are catered for.
Pass me some coffee I'm heading for oblivion.
But hey, that John5 Sig series is way sic.
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That's hilarious! I had to re-read a few times to grasp the meaning, but I love it! Originally Posted by jazzbow
For some weird reasons I can picture John Lennon's aunt Mimi saying something like that to young John when he was bringing home all those Elvis and Gene Vincent's records!
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On different neck widths and other choices. Whatever works best for you! What's disappointing is that Fender offers little in the way of choice for non-Custom Shop guitars. Maybe they want people to pay CS prices? This is 2018! Imagine a Made In Mexico guitar where you get to tick boxes in a custom order, neck width, contour, fret wire, pickups, body colour... The technology is already there with CNC. I think Fender is missing out on an income stream with this.
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