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Nut width - 43mm
Neck profile - C or shallow D, doesnt really matter except NEVER V soft or not
Scale length - not fussed, like the two "norms" for different reasons
String gauge - 12s on 650/647 13s on 630
just because you do, doesn't mean you should.
NECK PROFILE: Don't really care too much, not huge, not really skinny: anything middling is fine.
SCALE LENGTH: 650mm. (Fender length.)
String gauge: 12s.
I'm fussy about nut width and can't tolerate anything under 44mm. Anything up to 50mm is OK.
I've always disliked short scales and quite like playing my ultra-long scale baritone (730mm!) but the standard 650mm is ideal. Maybe one day I'll fall in love with a short scale guitar. Or maybe not.
Neck profile no preference
Scale length 630
String gauge 12 - 52 but that’s for DADGAD
1 7/8 (with wide string spacing at bridge) if for a dedicated finger picking guitar, with a D shape neck carve.
1 11/16 is suiting me well for strumming and flat picking, with a nice full C profile neck.
Either way, I like my hand to be adequately filled.
Long scale on everything - I've not bonded with any of the short-scale acoustics I've owned.
I like lightly-built and responsive dreads that don't need the tension of 13's and an aggressive touch to really come alive.
Im at an age where Im "why should I just "put up" with and get something that is more "comfortable"
I was thinking of getting the Furch "re-profiled" but I think I'll just sell it on, I was hankering after an Atkin OM37 - but just seen the nut width is 43, which, according the the website, is the same as my Tanglwood parlor, which is small and a little too "different" to everything else I have - I guess what I need to do...............get the calipers out and actually measure it
just because you do, doesn't mean you should.
Caliper time me thinks - watch this space
just because you do, doesn't mean you should.
Over the years I’ve come to realise that none of them are critically Important to me. If I like the sound and look of an instrument I can make it work. I don’t pick up a mandolin or banjo and tell myself it’s unplayable because of the dimensions…. (I tell myself they’re unplayable because I can’t play them…!)
I don't know what any of mine are. I wouldn't know a v from a d or c, or whatever, shape. Don't know anything about scale. I basically either like it or don't, but seem to be able to play most guitars equally, or at least can get used to it pretty quickly.
Body size and shape is more important.
I have felt some instruments were a bit cramped so probably prefer an average or wider nut. I've fairly large hands and a couple of damaged fingers on my fretting hand that now have wider tips than they would be.
just because you do, doesn't mean you should.
I also have a Flambeau with a 43mm nut, which I thought great back when I bought it many years ago, but now it feels a bit cramped at the nut end. Prob down to styles - I played with a pick back then but now tend to play fingerstyle.
I also have a Fender 12 string but I reckon the neck is from a logging camp. Defines the term 'handful'.
just goes to show how your mind/brain can play tricks........................... just been up and measured the Furch, Brook, TW73, Tele and Strat
Brook = 44.5mm with a 37 string spacing
ALL the others are 43 with a 35.5mm string spacing - so the "cramped TW73" is actually the same size - absolutely bamboozled
Im off to drink gin
just because you do, doesn't mean you should.
Neck: flexible but no baseball bats.
Scale length: Between 24" to 25" is good.
Strings: 12s
Neck - shallow modern C profile.
Scale - not critical, although it depends on the body style/size.
Strings - irrelevant unless the neck is non-adjustable, but I'll usually fit 11s or lower-tension 12s.
"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
Got a Waterloo.... Spent a fortune on Strings various gauges and had a mad weekend....really l did.....probably around 12 diggerent makes, varying between 11s and 12s.....
For me... LMartin Retro 11s won out the park, no question....
I'm a fingerpicker..... With a wee bit of bottle eck....
Short scale 00/parlour/12 frets are the sweet spot for me.
I've purposely avoided going down the string rabbit hole. I know very little about the various types. Ignorance is bliss.
, also have long baritones, a 706mm Avalon and a 736mm Alan Arnold
http://www.alanarnoldguitars.co.uk/guitar_baritone.htm