[smokiee]

hiya..

some reviews said that seagull guitars havew quite a wide neck that is suitable for fingerpicking more. i haven't tried any so wish u guys could verify this. i do some fingerpicking but mostly strumming and bar chords so it a little hard to get my fingers all the way if the neck is too wide.

i have small hands but any ladies reading this, it doesn't mean that im not ehem in other departments

anyways.. im between the Seagull S6 and Norman B20 and i think both is awsome but if the seagull have a wider neck than norman then i think i'll go for the later.

cheers and keep on guitaring...

[musicman2000]

if you want you can check out ovation guitars they usually have a thinner neck thats closer to a electric's neck size.

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if you want you can check out ovation guitars they usually have a thinner neck thats closer to a electric's neck size.

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Yeah but there s*it .

[dadfad]

Having a wide neck in some cases for some styles of playing is actually easier to play if you have small hands. In fingerstyle for example, small hands can make buzzing and muting strings a common problem if the strings are too close together (longer fingers can come down squarely on the guitar neck from above, shorter fingers sort of "angle in" and can cause buzzing or muting of the strings nearby). Scale length might be a more important consideration than neck width to you.

So don't necessarily assume you'd prefer a narrow neck. You might, but check out a few guitars with different necks first.

Musicman is right about Ovations. I have one (which I got in a yard-sale at an extremely cheap price) and the neck is very narrow. I loan it to young students occassionally. Adam is also right. It is (to be polite) a "budget guitar" at best. I don't care for the sort of synthetic tone it has, and the round bowl-back makes it impossible to just sit on your lap comfortably while you play it. But then some guitarists prefer both of those things. Whatever.

In any case, try out different necks before you decide.

[towniceman]

just go to your local music shop and try out a bunch of different ones.
I own a washburn you might want to look at one the neck is pretty small.

[okiejohn]

I own a seagull, and I've never thought of it as having a wide neck. I just got out a measuring stick and compared it to an old ibanez. By golly the seagull is about an eighth inch wider at the nut, and about a 16th wider on up the neck at the 12th fret.

That isn't an exact measurment, but the seagull is a bit wider. I still wouldn't consider the neck on the seagull to be a wide neck though.

Like folks have suggested, go try one out, see how it fits.

[Stratatat]

Classical guitars have a wider neck verses a steel string. Im not sure if thats the case in the guitars you mention. But those nylon strings are alot easier on the fingers

[narad1986]

That's interesting ........ I have small hands too , but i need a huge neck ! ... I'm more comfortable on a 5 string bass and my classical than my lil electric..

Which is strange cause I know people with huge gorilla hands who are able to manuever their way around a mandolin !