Re: OK, we've done nut width, but how about neck depth and shape?
Originally Posted by
maxr
So what do you find most comfortable?
I’ve played enough mandolins at this point to know that I can make a lot of variables work. I’m seemingly unbothered by neck depth, but I am sensitive to the profile. I feel obstructed by a lot of meat in the shoulders and gravitate towards a V-shape like the one I found on my Collings MT.
That was my sixth mandolin, and by that time, I had met pickers with very different tastes. One is a Weber man who relishes the heft of a full neck profile. Another requires something more shallow due to an old hand injury.
All of this is to say that I can tell you what works for me, but I can’t tell you what will work for you. At this point, you can’t even tell me what will work for you, which is when the real fun begins: you will only be able to answer that question by playing a lot more mandolins!
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