Re: Picked up another faded SG

notbob wrote:
On 2010-04-27, JimT <jthread@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Fatter than thin? :-) I'm not a LP fan but not because of the neck. More because of the carved top. I like the C neck on my dlx strat (compound radius). I never thought too much about it until I picked up my PRS (wide thin), after not using it for along time, and got a pain in my wrist. It's gone now.

I would think wrist probs would be more a factor of guitar positioning
--slung low vs worn high-- than neck shape. I've always been in awe
of good guitar players who play their axe down at groin level. It's
gotta be a whole different fingering method than what I learned. 8|

nb

For me it's a radiused fret board - like Gibson vs Fender. Never had pain my hands until I started playing Fender guitars. Found I had to change my technique a bit to be able to play a Fender without pain...as well as sling them lower than I had been.

I can play them pain-free now (took most of a year to get there), but I'd hardly call them "comfortable" like my Les Pauls or Dan Armstrong with their flat boards...which is attributable to a combination of the Fender scale length, arched fret board, and my own personal hands. YMMV.

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- Rufus
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