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Re: Need some suggestions for a guitar for me!
Hey, if anyone here starts buying people PRS's Tekky, or not, they can *shudder* sleep with me.
No seriously, all the suggestions are true about the fusions and all of that, but I really don't know if being petite requires a smaller guitar. Looking at your picture, you do not look too tiny for a guitar (anyway that comes out, it sounds bad, so rest assured, it's not). You're hands look to be of a good size (on the guitar I'm seeing, may be different, and I'm sure Tekky can tell you better, or maybe someone else that you guys hang out with).
Maybe play a few of Teks guitars (sorry Tekky, I don't know what guitars you have) and see if there's a particular neck shape or style you like. Maybe if he has maple boards, and ebony boards, and rosewood, you can get a feel for a finger board you like, and a fret size you like. Maybe you don't want too heavy a guitar (in which case, if you played either of my strats you wouldn't want them because they weigh a lot) so you need something a little lighter, in the neighborhood of a Dinky or Ibanez (yeah boo me) RG series guitar. Maybe the neck on the dinky or Ibanez is too thin, so you go with one of the lower model Ibanez guitars, without a wizard neck (or an upper model without one) and add whatever you like to it.
Bottom line, it looks to me, that your hands can hangle a 25.5 inch scale length just fine, and 3/4 inch over all the frets is NOT that big of a difference (at least to me) and I've got small hands, I just measured (I'm adding bookshelves to my house, so don't think anything perverted!) 7 inches from the end of my palm to my middle finger end, all my guitars have 25.5 inch scale lenth.
Next step to look at is action, what kind of action do you like (play to find out) super low, medium low, low, medium, or high? I personally like a low/medium. I can play ANY low actioned guitar, but I like a little bit of grab on mine (then again my favorite guitar has super low action).
What kind of trem will you like, you've got to play different guitars, stop bars, floyds, vintage styled, wilkonsons, just experiment around, I'm sure a trip you and Tekky would both love is to go to the music store, and just play around with guitars.
A; he'd look cooler than most of the guys in there (look, I'm bringing my girlfriend (not sure if you guys are more than or engaged or something, so please don't be offended) to play guitars, what are you butt sniffers doing?
B; you won't be bored, neither will he
C; you'll get to play different guitars, while he brags about his guitar playing girl, a win win win for everyone!
I personally don't know how serious you are about guitars, but I'd start out with something light, anyone here can tell you, SUPER deals can be had on some J/C guitars.
My advice? If it has a Kahler, it sucks :P (not true, I just don't like em)
Hey, if anyone here starts buying people PRS's Tekky, or not, they can *shudder* sleep with me.
No seriously, all the suggestions are true about the fusions and all of that, but I really don't know if being petite requires a smaller guitar. Looking at your picture, you do not look too tiny for a guitar (anyway that comes out, it sounds bad, so rest assured, it's not). You're hands look to be of a good size (on the guitar I'm seeing, may be different, and I'm sure Tekky can tell you better, or maybe someone else that you guys hang out with).
Maybe play a few of Teks guitars (sorry Tekky, I don't know what guitars you have) and see if there's a particular neck shape or style you like. Maybe if he has maple boards, and ebony boards, and rosewood, you can get a feel for a finger board you like, and a fret size you like. Maybe you don't want too heavy a guitar (in which case, if you played either of my strats you wouldn't want them because they weigh a lot) so you need something a little lighter, in the neighborhood of a Dinky or Ibanez (yeah boo me) RG series guitar. Maybe the neck on the dinky or Ibanez is too thin, so you go with one of the lower model Ibanez guitars, without a wizard neck (or an upper model without one) and add whatever you like to it.
Bottom line, it looks to me, that your hands can hangle a 25.5 inch scale length just fine, and 3/4 inch over all the frets is NOT that big of a difference (at least to me) and I've got small hands, I just measured (I'm adding bookshelves to my house, so don't think anything perverted!) 7 inches from the end of my palm to my middle finger end, all my guitars have 25.5 inch scale lenth.
Next step to look at is action, what kind of action do you like (play to find out) super low, medium low, low, medium, or high? I personally like a low/medium. I can play ANY low actioned guitar, but I like a little bit of grab on mine (then again my favorite guitar has super low action).
What kind of trem will you like, you've got to play different guitars, stop bars, floyds, vintage styled, wilkonsons, just experiment around, I'm sure a trip you and Tekky would both love is to go to the music store, and just play around with guitars.
A; he'd look cooler than most of the guys in there (look, I'm bringing my girlfriend (not sure if you guys are more than or engaged or something, so please don't be offended) to play guitars, what are you butt sniffers doing?
B; you won't be bored, neither will he
C; you'll get to play different guitars, while he brags about his guitar playing girl, a win win win for everyone!
I personally don't know how serious you are about guitars, but I'd start out with something light, anyone here can tell you, SUPER deals can be had on some J/C guitars.
My advice? If it has a Kahler, it sucks :P (not true, I just don't like em)
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