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Comfortable Neck for Aching Hands
What guitar neck do you like the best when your hands & thumb start to ache? I tend to like the neck on my Martin 00-28 (2016).
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The neck on my ‘73 000-18 is amazing, by far the best of all the acoustic guitars I’ve played.
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I find, as I grow older (78), that my hands are more likely to cramp on guitars with thin or narrow necks. My models that have a bit more wood on the neck are far more comfortable.
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Both my McIlroy Aj25 and my Brook Taw have very comfortable neck profiles that are on the thinner side.
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I can acclimate to most necks fairly readily. Too-thin necks (think Taylor) I tend to like the least as it seems like my hands cramp more for some reason and I don't have big hands. My Cole Clark guitar necks are very comfortable but even on those I found I tend to get a little bit of knuckle pain around the middle finger on either side. But since getting my latest Martin which has a mod V neck with a PA taper that is extremely comfortable. I'd always preferred a neck with a soft V and I've had Martin mod V's that were good and not so good but this combination of mod V with PA taper is just really nice and very comfortable for me.
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I have smaller hands, so pretty much have the opposite response to those with larger hands. Cramping happens for me with chunky necks.
Best neck for me is the Collings Mod-V on my OMs. |
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Love the chunky and wide neck on my older Seagull Folk.
To my knowledge I've never tried a pronounced V neck. I often wonder how I'd like one. Things I think help (beyond preference on neck shape). At least decent fret height, appropriate action height (including nut slots!), and lighter tension strings. As Steve DeRosa has often pointed out here, you can even skip the last one if you are not a string vibrato bender.
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Takamine's asymmetrical ergonomic design on their Japanese Pro Series.
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Exact opposite problem - the slimmer the neck the easier/longer/faster I can play, and probably the main reason I've gone almost exclusively to electric over the last 3-4 years...
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I absolutely agree with this, 1 7/8 nut and chunky neck please.
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