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Saturday, January 10, 2009

Chubby


More about those wonderful Robles Gig bags next... meanwhile... let's talk about when things are
exactly the opposite of what you expected. You play guitar, and you have small hands.
Naturally (at some point) you play a Blackguard tele, with a 'chunky-like-a-baseball-bat' neck... and then decide it might be too big for your hand. So you go and get another guitar (my choice is Tele) with a late fifties extra-thin V-shaped neck... and you play it a while. You keep saying 'Little hands.. thin neck... this rocks'... but when you get near the cowboy frets area, your fingers just don't lie properly on the fretboard doing chords (at least, this was my experience). I spent maybe a couple years 'courting' thin neck Fender guitars... only to find out the other day when I put that baseball bat neck tele back in my hands everything was right in the world. Sounds strange... but if you have small hands, maybe a chunky neck guitar might be right up your alley.. and that thin neck guitar might be the last thing you want... Now does that mean if you are a skinny guy that chubby girls rule?