Wanted: 7.25 Radius Stratocaster Neck...

I don't know how you play that thing with a 7.25" radius. My 1987 Squirecaster has a 9.5" radius and it's unbearable to play.

I got it out last night just for fun and I couldn't figure out how I played it all those years.

I grabbed my horseshoe snips and immediately yanked out all the frets, then took my 12" radius block and worked the fretboard into a 12" radius.

I gotta pick up some of the super tiny #6230 Fender FireWire today for it...

Man, that neck bugged me!!!
 
I know that John Mayer's PRS Silver Sky Stratocaster has a 7.25" radius fret board and that there are no issues with fretting out on that guitar.


;>)/
 
I had several 7.25 radius teles over the years-- I liked the necks--

as long as its not Louisville slugger thick -- Im in ....radius schmadius-- I can suck on ANY level! lol

seriously -- I never care or pay attention-- the guitar feels as it feels-- why get hung up on these numbers man.

I play guitar a few minutes-- swap to bass-- long scale-- then maybe a short scale -- its all just numbers man
T-60 is a 12" radius--- Jacksons a 9.5.....Gibosnons are -- er what ever -- just play that thing!
 
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eSGEe said:
I had several 7.25 radius teles over the years-- I liked the necks--

as long as its not Louisville slugger thick -- Im in ....radius schmadius-- I can suck on ANY level! lol

seriously -- I never care or pay attention-- the guitar feels as it feels-- why get hung up on these numbers man.

I play guitar a few minutes-- swap to bass-- long scale-- then maybe a short scale -- its all just numbers man
T-60 is a 12" radius--- Jacksons a 9.5.....Gibosnons are -- er what ever -- just play that thing!
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Step and a half bends mute out on a tight radius...if you listen to the second Hotel California solo I posted, you can hear how much more dynamically I play when I am comfortable and dig my tone.

The "numbers," to me, just help me quantify what's most comfortable.
 
jjudas said:
I have a Fender MIM Classic Series '72 Telecaster Custom with a 7.25 radius neck. I love the neck. I have zero issues playing anything on this neck.
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Those vintage Fender necks feel really awkward to me....it's now a very comfortable 12" Gibson-esque radius...
 
Sp8ctre said:
See...there's the rub, I'm not about speed or any of that. I'm about a nice clear tone and some Blues or the like...

Here is the sound that's the very sweetest to my ears! If you are impatient skip to :38


Go to 12:42 on this one...he's playing the Strat at this point.

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Good guitarist. I've only really ever heard "On The Turning Away" from him and his work on that song is phenomenal.
 
Sp8ctre said:
Mine as well!
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