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For instance, acoustic guitars intended for fingerpicking styles often have their strings spaced slightly more widely than guitars intended to withstand strumming. This makes the finger moves easier.
In the realm of bass guitar, two of the reference neck formats are Precision and Jazz. Again, string spacing is the main difference. Some bass lines come more easily to hand on one width than the other.
Ultimately, all of this is relative to the individual player's physique. One player's easy could be another player's cramped.
If somebody gifted you a fat wad of bank notes, you might very well consider those to be the best bank notes that you had ever had in yer 'ands.
If a second somebody paid you to appear in a promotional video, eulogising the aforementioned bank notes, you might very well agree to participate.
There is much about which to be cynical.
Shouldn't pose much of a problem.
I’d also add how the guitar hangs: where the 12th fret is, where the bridge is in relation to a comfortable right arm position, what angle the neck is to the horizontal, and what angle to the front of your body.
There are so many factors, and everyone has a different comfort zone.
I’ve somehow managed to accumulate 7 guitars over the last month, and have been surprised by how they all feel different. Not hugely different, but subtle things I can feel through my right hand (I’m a leftie) and after reading the answers it has made me realise what these differences are.
The comment about where the 12th fret is is really interesting. I always assumed that they would be (or at least feel) in pretty much the same place... with a Strat or Tele I feel right on top of it, but with my SG it feels a little further away, and something I will need to get used to. I thought my Flying V would be similar to the SG, but for some reason it isn’t. In fact, I think the V is the guitar I’m finding easiest to play out of all of them.
Most differences are not better/worse - They show the character of the guitar and as such it is a case of which suits you - Sometimes you'll find one guitar suits one song/style, whilst another will suit another song/style etc
Assuming all are set up then all should be playable, but you will probably find yourself having a favourite, for whatever reason that is
Playing a guitar that you don't get on with is like jogging with a cold - You'll still get there but it was tough work
I suspect if I were shorter I’d find Strats too ‘spread out’ - as it is - I find them pretty much perfect.
Couldn't agree more, several times someone has passed me a guitar of theirs and I find it terrible to play, and it's usually down to the fact the action is too low for me, or the strings too light, I think I need a bit of a fight out of the guitar to enjoy it.
Edit: I see @sweepy agrees too
Having said that, nobody gets to see me play them... and I take the point that they can look quite large, I remember watching some random TV show and there was a small guy in a backing band wearing a dark suit playing a white Strat, it looked enormous.
I do like the idea of a slightly scaled down Strat. Warmoth make a 7/8-sized body but they look just a bit odd, and you have to use a 24.75" scale, 24-fret neck.