Frankencat
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What's your favorite neck profile offered by Warmoth?
What's your favorite neck profile?
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Cagey
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Yeah, it was only 8 years ago. But, some subjects seem to get beaten to death. Should probably do a poll on which "tonewood" sounds best. Now, that would not only be informative, but it would finally put that question to bed :laughing7:
But, as long as we're on the subject, I'm finding as time goes on that the profile is becoming less important to me. When you get right down to it, there really isn't a great deal of difference in the size of necks. I mean, the entire range of widths and thicknesses is only about 3/8", with the upper limits hitting around 1" x 2", and they all have roughly flat faces and roughly cylindrical backs. Unless you're a small child, chances are you can wrap your hand around a guitar/bass neck. So, any talk about "my big/small hands need a [insert profile here] neck" isn't really about size or profile.
What the number of variations in neck profile and fretboard radius are really saying is how incredibly sensitive our hands are to texture, dimension and spatial relationships, which is to say how fine the resolution of "muscle memory" can be. I remember back when I was playing more complex and higher speed pieces than I do now, if you took away my Levinson Blade (a boutique Strat-style for those unfamiliar), I was almost out of business. I could still play, but the fun stuff was out of the question. My fingers would be tripping over strings, fat-fingering chords, missing notes altogether... it was a hot mess.
Today, I can't play the stuff I used to, I've been playing a lot longer, and I handle a helluva lotta different necks here, so variations in profile aren't the shock to my system they used to be. It's getting to where if it has six strings in a more or less traditional arrangement, I'm good to go.
All that said, my Goldilocks choice is what Warmoth calls a "Standard Thin" with a 1 11/16" nut.
But, as long as we're on the subject, I'm finding as time goes on that the profile is becoming less important to me. When you get right down to it, there really isn't a great deal of difference in the size of necks. I mean, the entire range of widths and thicknesses is only about 3/8", with the upper limits hitting around 1" x 2", and they all have roughly flat faces and roughly cylindrical backs. Unless you're a small child, chances are you can wrap your hand around a guitar/bass neck. So, any talk about "my big/small hands need a [insert profile here] neck" isn't really about size or profile.
What the number of variations in neck profile and fretboard radius are really saying is how incredibly sensitive our hands are to texture, dimension and spatial relationships, which is to say how fine the resolution of "muscle memory" can be. I remember back when I was playing more complex and higher speed pieces than I do now, if you took away my Levinson Blade (a boutique Strat-style for those unfamiliar), I was almost out of business. I could still play, but the fun stuff was out of the question. My fingers would be tripping over strings, fat-fingering chords, missing notes altogether... it was a hot mess.
Today, I can't play the stuff I used to, I've been playing a lot longer, and I handle a helluva lotta different necks here, so variations in profile aren't the shock to my system they used to be. It's getting to where if it has six strings in a more or less traditional arrangement, I'm good to go.
All that said, my Goldilocks choice is what Warmoth calls a "Standard Thin" with a 1 11/16" nut.
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Ooooh, Levinson Blade - a killer guitar. I love their genious solution to the whammy bar problem, ie theirs are decked but you can still both dive and pull up. They are made with double blocks. Even if a string breaks you wont go out of tune.
I remember when we sold those back in the late eighties early nineties in the store where I worked at.
Along with quite a few Valley Arts :icon_thumright:
I remember when we sold those back in the late eighties early nineties in the store where I worked at.
Along with quite a few Valley Arts :icon_thumright:
DarkPenguin
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Whatever is on my PRS S2 Vela. That begs the question of what warmoth neck most closely matches that. Caliper time tonight, I guess.
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The choices have a typo, of standard slim rather than thin.
I think mine may lie somewhere around standard thin but with the shoulder more rounded.
I think mine may lie somewhere around standard thin but with the shoulder more rounded.
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