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UNPLANNED DOWNTIME: 12th Oct 23:45
Nut, neck, scale, gauge (important?)
Let's do a small survey. Assume that you are ordering a new acoustic guitar, which will be made to your specifications. Please provide your preferred -
Nut width
Neck profile
Scale length
String gauge
And say which of these are important to you - string gauge obviously not so much as you can always change the strings.
Nut width
Neck profile
Scale length
String gauge
And say which of these are important to you - string gauge obviously not so much as you can always change the strings.
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Nut width - 43mm
Neck profile - C or shallow D, doesnt really matter except NEVER V soft or not
Scale length - not fussed, like the two "norms" for different reasons
String gauge - 12s on 650/647 13s on 630
just because you do, doesn't mean you should.
NECK PROFILE: Don't really care too much, not huge, not really skinny: anything middling is fine.
SCALE LENGTH: 650mm. (Fender length.)
String gauge: 12s.
I'm fussy about nut width and can't tolerate anything under 44mm. Anything up to 50mm is OK.
I've always disliked short scales and quite like playing my ultra-long scale baritone (730mm!) but the standard 650mm is ideal. Maybe one day I'll fall in love with a short scale guitar. Or maybe not.
Neck profile no preference
Scale length 630
String gauge 12 - 52 but that’s for DADGAD
1 7/8 (with wide string spacing at bridge) if for a dedicated finger picking guitar, with a D shape neck carve.
1 11/16 is suiting me well for strumming and flat picking, with a nice full C profile neck.
Either way, I like my hand to be adequately filled.
Long scale on everything - I've not bonded with any of the short-scale acoustics I've owned.
I like lightly-built and responsive dreads that don't need the tension of 13's and an aggressive touch to really come alive.
Im at an age where Im "why should I just "put up" with and get something that is more "comfortable"
I was thinking of getting the Furch "re-profiled" but I think I'll just sell it on, I was hankering after an Atkin OM37 - but just seen the nut width is 43, which, according the the website, is the same as my Tanglwood parlor, which is small and a little too "different" to everything else I have - I guess what I need to do...............get the calipers out and actually measure it
just because you do, doesn't mean you should.
Caliper time me thinks - watch this space
just because you do, doesn't mean you should.
Over the years I’ve come to realise that none of them are critically Important to me. If I like the sound and look of an instrument I can make it work. I don’t pick up a mandolin or banjo and tell myself it’s unplayable because of the dimensions…. (I tell myself they’re unplayable because I can’t play them…!)
I don't know what any of mine are. I wouldn't know a v from a d or c, or whatever, shape. Don't know anything about scale. I basically either like it or don't, but seem to be able to play most guitars equally, or at least can get used to it pretty quickly.
Body size and shape is more important.
I have felt some instruments were a bit cramped so probably prefer an average or wider nut. I've fairly large hands and a couple of damaged fingers on my fretting hand that now have wider tips than they would be.
just because you do, doesn't mean you should.
I also have a Flambeau with a 43mm nut, which I thought great back when I bought it many years ago, but now it feels a bit cramped at the nut end. Prob down to styles - I played with a pick back then but now tend to play fingerstyle.
I also have a Fender 12 string but I reckon the neck is from a logging camp. Defines the term 'handful'.
just goes to show how your mind/brain can play tricks........................... just been up and measured the Furch, Brook, TW73, Tele and Strat
Brook = 44.5mm with a 37 string spacing
ALL the others are 43 with a 35.5mm string spacing - so the "cramped TW73" is actually the same size - absolutely bamboozled
Im off to drink gin
just because you do, doesn't mean you should.
Neck: flexible but no baseball bats.
Scale length: Between 24" to 25" is good.
Strings: 12s
Neck - shallow modern C profile.
Scale - not critical, although it depends on the body style/size.
Strings - irrelevant unless the neck is non-adjustable, but I'll usually fit 11s or lower-tension 12s.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Just because I don't care, doesn't mean I don't understand." - Homer Simpson
Got a Waterloo.... Spent a fortune on Strings various gauges and had a mad weekend....really l did.....probably around 12 diggerent makes, varying between 11s and 12s.....
For me... LMartin Retro 11s won out the park, no question....
I'm a fingerpicker..... With a wee bit of bottle eck....
Short scale 00/parlour/12 frets are the sweet spot for me.
I've purposely avoided going down the string rabbit hole. I know very little about the various types. Ignorance is bliss.
, also have long baritones, a 706mm Avalon and a 736mm Alan Arnold
http://www.alanarnoldguitars.co.uk/guitar_baritone.htm
I think maybe I wouldn't have something made to my own specifications though, given the choice. I'd rather have someone who knows more than me make something the way they want and then decide if it suits me.
just because you do, doesn't mean you should.
Nut width. I have moderately large hands and play fingerstyle. It is very difficult for me to play cleanly on a too-narrow neck. Even a simple open A chord becomes awkward. I learned to play on a classical guitar (50mm nut), and have spent most of the last 50 years playing 12-strings (also a 50mm nut). (Also bass, which is much wider per-string than a 6.) I play 6-string now, but these squeezy little nuts are a pain in the arse.
Scale length: I dislike the loose, floppy feel of short strings tuned to standard pitch. I don't care for it under the left hand, and really dislike it under the right hand. I like to hit the strings quite hard and a long scale helps. Also, long scale instruments develop better tone, all else being equal. But I can play short-scale if needed and might get something short one day, who knows?
Neck profile I'm not too fussed about.
just because you do, doesn't mean you should.
just because you do, doesn't mean you should.
I read on the AGF that Collings have temporarily ceased or drastically curtailed Waterloo production due to Covid backlogs on the Collings lines. I don't know if there's any truth to it.