Hello guitarists,
I am seeking feeback on how people get on with standard guitars.
I am talking about neck/fingerboard widths.
I had always struggled with my standard guitars; I found that in holding chords my fingers often lay on and muted adjacent strings.
I found also that with my right hand when I was finger-picking, that I couldn't pluck strings cleanly enough.
People who play with a plectrum will not have problems in the right hand; but you cannot do half the stuff with a plectrum that you might do with your fingers... I mean non-lead guitar where you are acompaniing a voice or paraphrasing a keyboard perhaps.
So is there anyone who has found their electric guitar neck too narrow who has any thoughts on this?
My soloution to this for my sausage fingers, has been to make myself a developemental series of wide necked guitars.
My most recent one is a Washburn WG-587; a seven string guitar that is now a wide-necked six string.
These guitars have really been a revelation for me, and I really feel like my playing has opened up and developed since I made my first wide-necked guitar; also I make a much cleaner stronger sound with fewer muted strings.
I would appreciate feedback,
Mark D Phillips................
ps. There are photos of some of my wide-necked guitars in my profile.
I am seeking feeback on how people get on with standard guitars.
I am talking about neck/fingerboard widths.
I had always struggled with my standard guitars; I found that in holding chords my fingers often lay on and muted adjacent strings.
I found also that with my right hand when I was finger-picking, that I couldn't pluck strings cleanly enough.
People who play with a plectrum will not have problems in the right hand; but you cannot do half the stuff with a plectrum that you might do with your fingers... I mean non-lead guitar where you are acompaniing a voice or paraphrasing a keyboard perhaps.
So is there anyone who has found their electric guitar neck too narrow who has any thoughts on this?
My soloution to this for my sausage fingers, has been to make myself a developemental series of wide necked guitars.
My most recent one is a Washburn WG-587; a seven string guitar that is now a wide-necked six string.
These guitars have really been a revelation for me, and I really feel like my playing has opened up and developed since I made my first wide-necked guitar; also I make a much cleaner stronger sound with fewer muted strings.
I would appreciate feedback,
Mark D Phillips................
ps. There are photos of some of my wide-necked guitars in my profile.