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"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
I regularly play a Strat, a 22 fret PRS and a 335 and find I can easily swap between them. Oddly, although the volumes on the 335 are further away from the bridge than on a Les Paul, they fall under the hand far more easily.
I'd love to get on with Les Pauls but having owned four over the years, I recognise I never will. My PRS McCarty fulfills LP duties and is the best compromise between feel and sound for me.
@ICBM has summed it up. I can't get on with LPs as the don't fit my body right. everything feels like it's in the wrong place. SGs are the same.
A Strat based guitar works perfectly for me.
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Yeah, I can now. But couldn't for about the previous twenty years.
I think it is a bit psychosomatic afterall and it was all about the massive difference in bridge height and neck angle. Once I started playing Charvels with non recessed trems, which meant the bridge was the same height as the LP TOM bridge AND the neck pocket was angled, the switch to V trem strats with non angled neck pockets didn't seem so daunting as they were the same shape eh.
Of course I really brushed up my playing and technique, got a little looser and tighter on the rhythms and found some decent guitars and pups to motivate me to pickup a strat along the way which helped.
Now I will switch between a hardtail Mockingbird, which basically is setup as a LP to a vintage Strat to doing unison bends on a floating trem charvel all in one night. No effort. It's all in the mind.
Get some 57/62 or SSL1 pups and listen to Jimi, RHCP or SRV and with that tone and influence, it should motivate you enough to get your hands around it.
Too tightly wrapped and not a generally good player IMO if you can't switch, as the guitars are probably just exasserbating flaws in your technique. Unless of course you can't play one or the other for medical reasons as mentioned.
Comfort for me is the last thing on my mind, it's all about the tone of the thing. You should try a Mahogany Charvel Star without a belly cut. Pain is irrelevant as I experience it everyday in my job.
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"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
I got over the problem by having a strap for each guitar so each felt right when putting them on, then getting a humbucker in the strat's bridge so they sounded (almost) the same when plugged into my amp. And lots of practice
Page has occasionally been seen with a Strat, Beck used to play a Les Paul then became a Strat player (as did Clapton).
I can only think of Knopfler who spends roughly equal time with both... Unless anyone can think of any others?
The Edge - uses a strat for about 40% of the time and an LP for another 40% at a guess. Though he's gone a bit towards Gretches and Casinos in recent years.