Anyone have guitars with different neck profiles ?? Can I adjust to it ??

riffpowers · March 2018

I tried a tokai love rock today . It was a fantastic guitar , and the only thing I wasn't sure about was the neck profile .
My main (and only!) guitar is a 1990 les Paul custom . I've owned it since new , and the slim neck feels like home after all these years.
the tokai wasn't a baseball bat or anything , just chubbier , and therefore felt really different .
as I've been playing the same neck did years I don't know if I'll adjust to a thicker neck . It had 9s on which made it feel different too .
it was a great guitar , I just don't know if having a chubbier neck makes it play more like a bluesy guitar than a rock guitar.
im not a shredder or anything , but I play nwobhm/punk/ hardcore/crossover so I do play fast .

i wondered if anyone on here has any experience of adjusting to playing different neck profile guitars ?!

Sporky · March 2018

Mine all have different necks

It's fine

gusman2x · March 2018

Sporky said:

Mine all have different necks

It's fine

+1 - wizards all the way to j mascis jazz masters

guitars4you · March 2018

I would suggest that the more guitars you have the more different profiles you have - nut width + depth - many can be similar but still different

Unless you have 2/3 of the identically same guitar then I bet all your guitars are different

Of course some bond with one neck more than another - Different guitar necks can lead you to play in a different way as well

Jack_ · March 2018

I have a Strandberg and multiple traditional necked guitars. Takes no time at all to adjust.

WezV · March 2018

I have had 6 strings with everything from 38-50mm wide and 19-31mm thick at the nut.

extremes take a little getting used to but 95% of guitars are between 42-44mm wide and 21-24mm thick at the nut. It’s barely any difference at all

obviously the shape changes too and that has more impact on feel. A broad shouldered D profile will always feel bigger than a C of the same dimensions... but V’s can make things feel deeper

paulnb57 · March 2018

Sporky said:

Mine all have different necks

It's fine

Me too from thinnish C 24" scale Mustang to Baseball bat to Vee pofile Strat necks, I get on fine with them all, all have different size fretwire too, it just doesn't bother me....

richardhomer · March 2018

While I generally prefer bigger necks, I can happily play anything - you might find over time a bigger neck starts to work better for you. At the moment, you’ll probably only perceive the difference in feel as a negative because it’s unfamiliar.

Plectrum · March 2018

All of my guitars have different neck profiles. I don't find it a problem.

guitarfishbay · March 2018

The biggest extreme I have is I’ve got an ESP/LTD thin U and a PRS wide fat and honestly it doesn’t take that long to switch between the 2. Doing some scales as warmup helps get your hand used to the different necks, 5-10 minutes of chromatics and scales and I find I’m sorted for the rest of the time I’m playing that guitar that day.

The only necks I’ve found to be an issue are the Baja neck - just don’t like the shape, and the Gibson 50’s profile, which I find just that bit too big. Otherwise I can play most other things.

meltedbuzzbox · March 2018

I just have one neck that I keep fitting to different loaded bodies.

Philly_Q · March 2018

Over the years I've gravitated to bigger and bigger necks and that's what I'd always choose on a new guitar. But I still have guitars with various neck profiles (and different scale lengths).

I couldn't play something like an Ibanez Wizard, but I was playing a Tele with a fairly slim neck ('65 C) the other day and I must admit it felt OK.

Schnozz · March 2018

I have more trouble with string spacing than neck profiles and especially if they're at different heights, like on a 7.25" radius.

riffpowers · March 2018

thanks for the input guys !

my well worn in and much abused custom feels familiar , I think the tokai just feels different , not better or worse , I also think the tokai feels different ad it's pretty much new , whereas I'm used to playing a well worn in guitar with loads of personality .

i reckon I just need to play it . A lot . I'll get used to it , and the more it gets worn in the better it will feel and the more personality it'll have .

DulcetJones · March 2018

You'll get used to any neck over time. I've got 10 guitars, a classical, a bass, and several types of solid body electric. I jump between several day with no trouble.

prowla · March 2018

I have a selection of guitars and basses; I find that different ones encourage me to play in different ways.

bodhi · March 2018

DulcetJones said:

I jump between several day with no trouble.

I've been playing my Les Paul with the thinnest neck for most of the past week and a half, and suddenly I really notice the difference when I switch to the ones with fatter necks.

So I guess the trick is to play them all frequently.

Garthy · March 2018

Schnozz said:

I have more trouble with string spacing than neck profiles and especially if they're at different heights, like on a 7.25" radius.

Although I can adapt easily and quickly between profiles, such wizards to baseball bats, the one thing that trips me up for ten minutes each time is going from flat & skinny super strats to LPs, I just feel like I'm playing a ukulele. I'm fine after ten minutes though and swapping back the other way is like putting on some comfy slippers.

thegummy · March 2018

I'd imagine most people with multiple guitars would have almost as many different profiles as they have guitars.

I bought an Am St Strat less than 2 years ago and if I bought another one now like I hope to (now rebranded Am pro) it will have a different neck profile.

I personally find that I only even really notice when thinking about it, when I'm concentrating on playing I don't even think about the neck profile.

ICBM · March 2018

As a repairer I've played most of the neck shapes there are, probably - I used to think it didn't matter much, but as I've got older I've found that it does. It's quite likely my hands have stiffened up, and now I find necks that are too far from my ideal profile are uncomfortable, sometimes even extremely so and can cause real pain after quite a short time.

riffpowers · March 2018

ICBM said:

As a repairer I've played most of the neck shapes there are, probably - I used to think it didn't matter much, but as I've got older I've found that it does. It's quite likely my hands have stiffened up, and now I find necks that are too far from my ideal profile are uncomfortable, sometimes even extremely so and can cause real pain after quite a short time.

That's what I'm worried about.

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