Well, Taylor itself offers the option of a slimmer-profile neck. Lurking on page 6 of the summer 06 Wood & Steel is the news that you can specify either of two neck profiles if you're ordering a guitar. This really threw me when I read it, because I always assumed that you got the current, fatter, wider neck (which I basically am not that crazy about) if the nut width was 1 3/4", and the slimmer neck (as on my Big Baby) if the nut width was 1 11/16". But no, according to W&S, the DDSM has the slimmer, old-fashioned Taylor neck profile, and Taylor's website gives the DDSM nut width as 1 3/4". Something to think about when you next order a Taylor I guess...
Richard
PS: Incidentally I saw my first R Taylors today - hadn't realized they'd reached London. One was a koa-topped guitar at what I thought was a crazy price, basically *three times* that of a 414ce.
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