Most ergonomic guitar you've played?

[mrpinter]

Re: Most ergonomic guitar you've played?

My Hamer T-62 - perfect neck, strat type body but a bit smaller:

 

[Phantasmagoria]

Re: Most ergonomic guitar you've played?

My Ibanez S 540 LTD. Nothing beats the neck on that thing...and the body is so slim and snug.

 

[Archer_of_Fish]

Re: Most ergonomic guitar you've played?

My Brian Moore C-55. It feels like part of your body

It is the one in front

 

[SabbathFan0220]

Re: Most ergonomic guitar you've played?

A Strat.

I can get along with most shapes, but every time I pick up a Strat I go, "Oh yeah, this is what a guitar is supposed to feel like."

 

[ImmortalSix]

Re: Most ergonomic guitar you've played?

I haven't technically played it yet, but

I found myself playing 2 guitars all the time - I'm sure you can guess which two - and it dawned on me that one of them just felt right against my body and the other one just felt right in my hands, so I put the shape of the one that felt good against my body on the top, where the guitar contacts my body the most, and put the shape of the one that felt good in my hands on the bottom, where the guitar contacts my hands the most and Bob's your uncle.

No joke, after I first routed it and did the roundover, I picked it up and held it like a guitar and I had kind of a Eureka! / lightbulb over my head / "oh baby!" type of moment.

I didn't want to try building a guitar just because I wanted to do it myself or spend a ton of money and even more time on a guitar that would likely be inferior or at best equal to a storebought axe --- I wanted to try building because nobody makes the guitar that's best for me.

An almost scientific approach to designing a guitar! How can I argue with that?

 

[NecroPolo]

Re: Most ergonomic guitar you've played?

Not my weepon of choice, but a Stratty guitar is very difficult to beat when it comes to ergonomy IMO. For me, the pots are too much in the way. I prefer the design of the '51, everything is right for me there.

 

[tc]

Re: Most ergonomic guitar you've played?

I haven't technically played it yet, but

How's that build coming along?

Are you giving it any contours?

 

[ImmortalSix]

Re: Most ergonomic guitar you've played?

How's that build coming along?

Are you giving it any contours?

You can see where the build is at either by viewing this thread or my official blog. The SDUGF thread is a stripped down version of the blog.

I don't have any contours planned - I have considered a tummy cut, but as a Telecaster and Les Paul fan, I think I will goo full slab, no contours with this guitar.

 

[Mincer]

Re: Most ergonomic guitar you've played?

The Klein, by far. You can rest it on either knee, let go, and it stays balanced there.

My Steinbergers come in 2nd, because they *almost* do this. All of the weight is at the tailpiece, so it is so much more balanced than a Strat.

My Brian Moore is close behind that- the whole body is curved to fit against your body.

 

[Jessie's ghost]

Re: Most ergonomic guitar you've played?

I don't know that I've played a guitar yet that I didn't have some ergonomic gripe with.

 

[80's_Metal]

Re: Most ergonomic guitar you've played?

I have to say Explorers. They just feel right to me.

100% agreement. They just fit right!