I have never ever thought about fretboard radius. I didn't even know it was a thing until relatively recently; I have several guitars that are all vastly different, they feel different, play different, have different neck profiles and different finishes and I find that the one I have most difficulty playing, or feels most noticeably different is the super thin wizard neck on my Ibanez RG550. I feel like my fingers slip off the neck on the top E string sometimes. I started out playing acoustic guitar so I think I feel naturally more comfortable on a guitar with a chunkier C shaped neck. I'm pretty sure my home-made guitar has a totally flat fingerboard because I wouldn't have known how to do a radiused fretboard but it feels pretty comfortable to me.
@richardb9195
9 ай бұрын
Interesting discussion. I have a ‘69 strat with a 9-1/2” radius I had purchased when I was an early teenager. I am now 70 and prefer a 14” radius neck. 12’s are fine because the rest of my collection is 12”.
@ProjectMusicSW
9 ай бұрын
Glad you found it interesting. It doesn't seem like a very exciting subject, but well worth learning about. PM
@thawthaw03
7 ай бұрын
How is 14" play? Trying to get one but never experienced
@Robowx
6 ай бұрын
Here's a bit of a story. I've been play guitar now for over 40 years. But in 2003 my wife wanted to learn. So she bought a used Telecaster Thinline MIM. She started to learn. But it ended up in a closet.So after many years, I decided to try it out. It was relatively light weight and easy to play. But it had a 7.25 radius and after playing it steady for 6 years straight. I am used to this radius and even playing a 9.5 radius seems too much for me now and yes I can bend and do other tricks with no problems. So now when I look at Fenders I look at the radius.
@ProjectMusicSW
5 ай бұрын
This MIM Thinlines are super cool! You definitely settle into whatever is in your hands regularly. You adjust to the quirks/differences. PM
@ivan_emege
3 ай бұрын
How the neck feel in your hand is the most crucial thing in the moment of purchasing a guitar. Is so relevant than determines if you keep it or sell it in a year or two. That’s my experience at least. For me the neck suits the best is 7.25/9.5 and narrow nut 1.625. According to Fender Custom Shop a big number of guitars in the ‘50s leave the factory with 7.25/9.5ish “accidentally compound radius” due to sloppiness in production I mean lack of consistency. And for neck profile soft V is near perfection.
@ProjectMusicSW
3 ай бұрын
Totally agree that the neck is very high on the list of importance. The important thing is to be open things as a whole when you are buying and try, try, try. I am lucky enough to have a 60s CS strat, on paper (and comparing it to my other guitars specs) I shouldnt like the 60s style oval c neck. But man that guitar fits like a glove! Conan. PM
@cedricchevrot4560
7 ай бұрын
A big thanks for this video. 👍
@ProjectMusicSW
7 ай бұрын
Glad you liked it!
@7amadama
Жыл бұрын
Well Explained 💯👍
@jazzguitarneophyte-christo7988
6 ай бұрын
When I was growing up as a teen in the 70s I had no idea of scale length, action height, radius, nut material, string spacing etc...All I knew was that I had a guitar with 6 strings that tuned in EADGE. The rest was getting used to it and making music with it! Excellent video!
@ProjectMusicSW
6 ай бұрын
It is so easy to get hung up on specs! Just need to get playing! Glad you enjoyed the video. PM
@peteg1696
6 ай бұрын
as someone that is just getting back into guitar after almost 20 years i agree, back then i just picked up a guitar and played it, the reason i havent played in so long is i broke my elbow left elbow and then i broke the same elbow again. i recently got back into it and my rg just felt the best, and i struggle to play my les paul, jet, siloute and my tele. and i thought it was scale length or string spacing but a few of them are the same, it is the radius, something i had never thought about back then but seems to be a massive difference now, and its not from watching videos about it, i came across these videos because i was trying to work out why i was struggling to play my other guitars
@ProjectMusicSW
6 ай бұрын
@@peteg1696 Great to hear you are playing again after such a long break.
@ironDsteele
6 ай бұрын
Ever seen a dead flat fretboard?
@ProjectMusicSW
6 ай бұрын
Some classical guitars have super flat boards but the flattest electric I have played is a 20" Board on a PRS Holcomb USA sig. PM
@ironDsteele
6 ай бұрын
@@ProjectMusicSW Cool! I have a seven string Ibanez BTB bass guitar with a 950mm radius- that would be over 37". The fretboard is so wide though I think that it's required.
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