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Location: Vancouver, WA | Hello all!
After beginning to learn to play better on my new ovation I have determined that my chubby fingers might do better on a guitar with a wider neck (or nut I believe). Any suggestions of models I should look at?
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Location: Vancouver, WA | All lovely guitars, guess I will be saving my pennies for a while. Some of them are only 1/16 wider than my 6868, others are 3/16 wider. Will have to try out some wider nut guitars in my local store to see if I can tell the difference before buying.
Thanks for all the responses!
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Dave, You would be surprised how much difference a 1/16" can make.
I have a Hamer solid-body electric....
It has a standard 1-11/16" nut, just like my Ovations...
But it FEELS wider!
I finally got a Caliper an measured it...
The nut is 1-11/16" but the string spacing from E to e is wider.
So those little measurements don't sound like much, but you will feel the difference.
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Location: Sunshine State, Australia | DanSavage - 2013-02-09 4:11 AM 1624 Country Artist
Country Artists are nylon string aren't they? arthurseery - 2013-02-09 8:02 AM Dave, You would be surprised how much difference a 1/16" can make. (.....). So those little measurements don't sound like much, but you will feel the difference. Agreed. TAKAR's '08C's nut width is only 1/16" wider that my '05C but it feels like 1/4"! |
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Location: Vancouver Island, BC | If you capo on the second fret, you are pretty close to the spacing on a 1-3/4 neck (nut). Should give you anidea. I have big hands and fingerpick. Have owned an old Folklore for ayear. That is a very wide neck (1-7/8), but playing it has improved my left hand dexterity and fingerplacement on the standard necks (I have several)so much that I no longer yearn for something wider (for me maybe 1-3/4 would be nice).
A nut with 1/16 more spacing would bring the strings 1/32" closer to the edge on each side. OMA is right, the difference is quite notisable, and I don't think it would present a problem. Worked great on my Trekker (narrow neck fitted with a standard O nut). |
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Location: Vancouver, WA | Thanks for the suggestion Nordicnorm, will try that.
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Ovations with a wider neck