What's your prefered neck profile?

[Budda]

As guitarists, we all have our preferred neck profile: What's yours? Do you have guitars with big differences in neck profile, and find them all equally comfortable?

I'm just curious to see what other forumites like. I know I really like the '59 carve on Gibson les paul studios and customs, but I have also found that I can play very well on the ESP/LTD Thin-U necks as well.

[Rhythmeister]

Fat, fat, fat. Love the LP RI necks - even the big ones among those. Have an R7, R8, and R4. All great. Anything smaller than that, I don't like. Had an LP STD with 60s neck and had to get rid of it - my fretting hand cramped whenever I played it.

Cheers,
Blair

[hollowbody]

Love the neck on my Strat - Modern C - it's thin and fast and really comfortable.

Lately my LP has been getting most of my attention, though, but for a LP STD it doesn't have a very beefy neck. It's certainly bigger than my Strat, but not the baseball-bat thick that I've come to associate with Gibsons.

[mhammer]

I have two guitars at home with necks that couldn't be farther apart, yet both are comfortable int heir own way. My Parker P-44 has a wide, flat fingerboard and fairly slim profile. My pre-war Kalamazoo archtop has a fairly pronounced V along its spine. The one lets you play fast, the other lets you barre chord until the cows come home, catch up on their sleep, and head out again the next morning. What they share in common is that they are wide.

In contrast, my mid-60's "batwing" Epi Coronet has an appallingly narrow neck. It eventually gets comfortable up around the 12th fret, but below the 5th it is pathetic.

[Budda]

Given my preference for the '59 gibson neck, I was suprised to find myself loving my roommate's LTD F-50 neck. Especially since I don't find my friend's LTD MH-1000 neck to be quite as comfortable. I did hoist the F-50 up to a nicer playing height though.

[six-string]

i much prefer necks that are attached to beautiful women!

[Spankin Allison]

Well, for me any Fender's short scaled necks is just great,Mustangs,Jag-stangs and Jaguars.But recently i discovered the Mosrite scale and neck wich is realy the best thing for me..Thin,narrow,thin fretlines.Switching from my mosrite to another guitar..make my feel like pushing a supermodel to go chubby chasin.
Thanks
Frank

[Jim DaddyO]

Like a baseball bat. Fat ones, I like the neck on my S&P acoustic more than my Squire Pro-Tone Strat, which is thin. My strat build is using an Allparts fat profile because it is the biggest I could find.

[fraser]

i like a soft v shape-
but ive got all kinds- from regular c shape fender types and modern skinny acoustic necks all the way back to honking great big v shapes of the 30's.
other than a minor warm up period of a few minutes, i really dont have any difficulty switching around amongst them.
as for electric necks, although a big v neck is more comfortable feeling to me, i often grab one of my guitars with a c or d shaped neck, simply cause thats the guitar i feel like playing at the time- and although the feel differs from profile to profile, it doesnt really have much effect on me when switching. its noticeable, but i find it a non-issue on the whole.

[ajcoholic]

Originally Posted by Budda

As guitarists, we all have our preferred neck profile: What's yours? Do you have guitars with big differences in neck profile, and find them all equally comfortable?

I'm just curious to see what other forumites like. I know I really like the '59 carve on Gibson les paul studios and customs, but I have also found that I can play very well on the ESP/LTD Thin-U necks as well.

I have plans drawn by Don Macrostie off of a real 59' LP - and the neck is MUCH fatter than any LP studio I hjave played (or any modern LP for that matter). I did my home made LP to the drawings and its HUGE!

I love a fat neck, with a nice C shape carve. I dont feel too comfortable on slim necks, but there are some exceptions (the Ibanez AS80 I have is wide and thin (relatively speaking) but I like it. I sold my old PRS CE24 as the wide thin neck was too thin for me, and I just couldnt get with it.

When I make a guitar, for me, you can be sure its got a baseball bat neck. That blue guitar was about as small as I like to go :)

AJC