A strange question perhaps. I have a Seagull S6, with the wide neck profile, and while it sounds pretty good for the price point, the neck, at times has me 50/50. Not that it's uncomfortable as such, just got me thinking about the electric guitars I have where the necks just always feel a little bit more comfortable.
I know there are Seagulls with narrower neck profiles, so that is one solution to my itch.
I once recored with a bog standard big baby taylor which had a lovely comfortable neck profile. On the other end of the scale I also recorded with a Gibson Hummingbird once upon a time, which also had a really nice neck profile, felt more like an electric guitar type neck. (Are the Epi Hummingbirds using the same profiles, or the many lawsuit/copies of Hummingbirds you see for sale?)
Any other nice neck profiles on a lower to mid end of things price wise?
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The skinniest acoustic neck I played was the Epiphone EL-00. 1 5/8 I think. Obvs mid-late 60s Gibson necks went super skinny but they are clearly not mid priced any more
Hard pushed to find anything narrower than 11/16 with a steeper radius than 12” these days I’d say
I had a cheapo Crafter which had a narrower neck but chunky at the same time, if that makes sense...
If so, you can try to find a very stable neck, probably like a Taylor, and use very light strings with the action very low
Not advisable to drop gauge and tension if you want to just play normally though
However, by some miracle the thing now plays like a dream, despite being on 12's it plays like an electric on 10's and doesn't fret/choke out anywhere, and no buzz. I have no idea how but it's a revelation.
Pic to demonstrate.
I have one.
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