Who has the biggest guitar neck ?

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silvertonebetty

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So I like a slightly bigger guitar neck. I also like the deep u fender used at once . So I got a neck made for my thinline and it is .99” thick, deep u profile, and 9.5” radius but just how big is .99”? Here is a picture comparing a 66 harmony rocket and my tele neck
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Re: Who has the biggest guitar neck ?

Not you thats for sure.

ME!!!! on my home made custom which i love more than my children. ok well not really but i do really like it.


And me again.

And..
 
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I find a wider neck lends to a larger feel than a thicker one, all other things being equal. An asymmetrical neck also will tend to feel thinner than a symmetrical one.
 
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I got the fatback from warmoth which is 1" the whole way down and I also got the largest frets too so it feels obese. Bwa ha ha.
 
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My regular neck for guitars I make is usually in the 1" range. I have quite a few that tip over the 1" mark, but the oversized monster for me is a semihollow that is 1 1/4" at the 1st. It is surprising playable actually.
 
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Not me. I used to have a Fender Strat with a 50s Classic Series neck which felt really fat, but wasn't. I think it was the V shape and 7.25 radius that threw me off. I hated it, I don't mind a fat neck but I prefer a flat back profile.

Thickest neck I've ever played on was a '58 RI LP. Holy balls was that neck huge. It felt excellent to play.
 
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Chistopher said:
I find a wider neck lends to a larger feel than a thicker one, all other things being equal. An asymmetrical neck also will tend to feel thinner than a symmetrical one.
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I get the same impression as you on this because while a neck might not be thick, if the fretboard is really wide thatll take up some of your finger length where as the profile being thicker tends to use up more of your thumb. If that makes sense to you??...

My Nightswan neck has a 1-9/16" (R1) nut so it has a rather narrow fretboard, not much than an R2 but enough to be noticeable (along with the sting spacing), so that all being said, to me the neck feels super thick because of how narrow the neck itself is, so I sanded it and thinned it out mostly concentrating on the shoulders (fretboard to dead center of the neck, but erring on the fretboard side),and it helped tremendously in terms of feel and apearance. So that defintiely goes along with what you were saying for sure!
 
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I'm with Diego, I played a '08-'10 R8 that was way over an inch. I didn't measure it but it made my fat neck Hind's V feel like an Ibanez Wizard. So thick i only played three chords and hung it up, maybe 10 seconds. It was so bad I didn't even pick up another to try for almost ten years.

The newer R8's aren't nearly as thick, I'd call them pleasantly plump and if you find one on the thin side of the R8 range they are just about perfect.
 
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So I like a slightly bigger guitar neck. I also like the deep u fender used at once . So I got a neck made for my thinline and it is .99” thick, deep u profile, and 9.5” radius but just how big is .99”? Here is a picture comparing a 66 harmony rocket and my tele neck
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I used to have a Western Auto Truetone (same as your Harmony, but with a double cutaway). The neck on it was a CHUNK - fat, round, thick, and wide. I loved it, especially after I pulled the brass frets and installed some Dunlop 6100 jumbos. Played great, sounded great, was fun to play. My best friend borrowed it to play in his college jazz band (instead of his Gibson ES-125), and kept it all 4 years. It never failed him, impressed all the guitar nerds who thought he was playing junk (I had installed DiMarzio PAF's, it's true).

But the biggest neck I ever played was the one I built for a local jazzer who wanted a classical guitar size neck on the semi-hollow I built him back in 1993. The neck was 2.250 inches wide, and 1.125 inches thick. The string spacing does not taper - it's 2 inches from E to E at the bridge and at the nut. He can't play anything with a "toothpick" neck anymore.
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Didnt Allan Holdsworth use a wide neck with non-tapered string spacing? Maybe im thinking wrong but I think he did at one point. Puts me in the mind of the old Kramer R5 necks which had a wider spacing that some love and some not so much.
 
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metalchurch79 said:
Didnt Allan Holdsworth use a wide neck with non-tapered string spacing? Maybe im thinking wrong but I think he did at one point. Puts me in the mind of the old Kramer R5 necks which had a wider spacing that some love and some not so much.
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He did, I think like a classical neck with a flat radius. His hands weren't giant, but meaty. I like tiny necks, like on my Music Man.
 
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i like my necks about 1" all the way down and 1 11/16" nut. i build a reverse headstock strat neck thats 1 7/8" at the nut, 1.1" thick tapering to 1.25" at the heal. its a beast but super stable. if you are used to a typical medium fender c neck, it probably feels like a tree trunk
 
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In my youth , I mistook a dobro for an acoustic
I seem to remember it was thick AND square
 
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Mincer said:
He did, I think like a classical neck with a flat radius. His hands weren't giant, but meaty. I like tiny necks, like on my Music Man.
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That's the idea behind my builds fat neck with a flat fretboard. It works for me.
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My 57' RI has the thickest neck I've owned at .91 at the 1st and 1.01 at the 12th. Normally that would be larger than I prefer, but due to small shoulders which result in a slight V shape, it's the most comfortable playing and feeling neck, I love it. I don't have large hands and like Mincer, I typically choose smaller necks. Warmoth standard thin and the like, but this Gibby has changed me. I'll be looking into V shapes and Asymmetrical shapes like the Wolfgang moving forward. I still don't want a baseball bat neck though.
 
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