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My hand cramps like mad on a Ibanez Wizard profile.
Almost certain it's psychosomatic but I definitely get that idea for some reason.
Interesting. I find it annoyingly thin!
I'd say the PRS W-F neck is actually "pretty wide and not really very fat", although I did think it was a big neck until I tried some of the Fender and Gibson Custom Shop models.
What seems most comfortable for me is a neck which is fairly narrow across, but thick front to back. I like the Fender 1.65" nut width. Sometimes the Nocaster U profile seems a bit too big if I haven't played it for a while, but I get used to it. I also like the 10/56 soft V, but sometimes that feels a bit too small. My hardtail Strat has a '54 U which I really like, it's about 23mm thick at the first fret and 25mm at the 12th.
No, although I did once have a Robert Cray - good model. This one's a CS relic, 1971 style, big headstock, but with a '54 neck profile.
I've only got one of the early SE models, an SE EG. I haven't played it for a very long time (took it apart and never put it back together...), but as far as I remember the neck was pretty similar to PRS USA wide-fat necks - they do vary a bit. Haven't tried any newer ones so they may have changed. I think sometimes a wide neck can feel "bigger" than a fat neck, and not in a good way.
Have you tried any S2 models? They have the Pattern Regular profile which is a bit narrower at the nut but, I think, still the same width higher up.
Never tried multiple necks on the same body so dunno about tone. I sound better if I’m comfortable, that’s all I know.
I obsessed about this issue for a while and it even ended up losing me money in an expensive partscaster as I thought no production fender neck was suitable/ big enough. I now fall into the slightly chunkier than average but not huge camp. My CS strat has a 65C profile/42mm nut combo that I used to assume was too thin but it turned out to be perfect and is my favourite neck. My R8 is lovely but slightly too deep at times. My 52AV tele is a nice depth but feels a little to narrow side to side compared with the strat which has wider string spacing.
Im less sensitive to depth on acoustics, probably as the hand is filled by what are usually wider necks.
Not convinced there is a noticeable effect on tone really, I think the pickups and body wood are more important.
You can prove it fairly easily with a couple of Fenders, if one sounds great and the other doesn't. Swap the necks and see which one now sounds good...
"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
The Musicmaster sounded better and was the guitar I wanted to use because it also looked better, but I wanted the longer scale. Unfortunately the good tone remained with the shorter scale neck!
Even if you're swapping the same scale length necks, it's the individual neck that largely determines which is the better guitar, irrespective of dimensions. Try it, I think you'll find the same.
"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