Will it be difficult for me to adjust to a different type neck?

[Manubro1]

I currently own an ESP LTD EC-50. It has XJ frets and a thin U neck. Now that I have been playing for a while, I am upgrading to a 61 reissue SG. I have tried it out a couple times at the store and to be honest, it did feel a little weird, like something I wasnt used to. However I am in love with the guitar's tone and look. My question is, will it be hard for me to get used to this new type of neck? How long will it ake for me to feel totaly comfortable with it?

 

Thx.

[ironlung40]

I currently own an ESP LTD EC-50. It has XJ frets and a thin U neck. Now that I have been playing for a while' date=' I am upgrading to a 61 reissue SG. I have tried it out a couple times at the store and to be honest, it did feel a little weird, like something I wasnt used to. However I am in love with the guitar's tone and look. My question is, will it be hard for me to get used to this new type of neck? How long will it ake for me to feel totaly comfortable with it?

 

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I find that I adjust in minutes between my guitars. for reference I have a 61 reissue sg with the 60's neck, and I had a special faded with the 50's neck, I also have/had several fender guitars (jaguar, strat, and jagstang, mustang)....these guitars have a much different feel than the sg's, and again I had no problems....you may find that you end up favoring the sg more and play it exclusively!!! That is what happened to me.

 

Someone more experienced may chime in here, but I think you should strive to use as close to the same guage strings as you can get by with on all of your guitars, and try to set the action as close to the same on all of them (relative to the individual instrument)....this may be difficult to do if the guitars are really different, but I always strived to have the string height close to the same.

[Yew]

After a while with a standard, the thin body makes all other guitars feel like toys...

[ironlung40]

After a while with a standard' date=' the thin body makes all other guitars feel like toys...[/quote']

 

true, true. The SG has just about made me to the point that I won't pick up another guitar. Studio work is different, you may want a different sound.....say a sparkly tele, or the roundness of a semi hollow body..........but for the majority of the time, it just me and my SG. I wanted a LP at one point, but after playing the SG for sometime now, that is not going to happen either. I'm just not a LP guy, thanks to the SG. Also,.........PRS and all of the other high end guitars can suck it!

[ironlung40]

true' date=' true. The SG has just about made me to the point that I won't pick up another guitar. Studio work is different, you may want a different sound.....say a sparkly tele, or the roundness of a semi hollow body..........but for the majority of the time, it just me and my SG. I wanted a LP at one point, but after playing the SG for sometime now, that is not going to happen either. I'm just not a LP guy, thanks to the SG. Also,.........PRS and all of the other high end guitars can suck it![biggrin']

[BigKahune]

As Ironlung said, I also have several electrics, a few different neck types - from the slim 60s to the fat 50s and the compound necks popular with shredders. I have no problems adjusting - a couple chords and a quick run and I'm adjusted.

 

Some players are picky about their necks - profile, thickness, nut width, fret size, radius, even inlays. So just in case, find out what your return window is, then play it a lot and if find you can't work with it, return it.

[Ronnie Robinson]

Its fairly normal that different guitars have different necks and can feel a little weird especially when you ve got use to playing a certain one. The most important factor it that the neck suits you - not all necks will, some may be too big too thin or just not feel right so as long as the neck is OK for u then no worries