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When buying the guitar, actually we are buying the neck. Do you know who told me this? OngTaiSuan(uglymen's drummer) told me this...I am quite agree with it. We are playing the guitar, and if the guitar neck is not suit our hand while we play it without the comfort then we will lost our interests or play well with it.

Guitar neck is very important for any guitar player out there. Out there got ton of different type of neck, there have C, D, V neck and more. Personally I haven't try out the V neck so I cannot give you command here.

I got C and D neck in my collection. I am preffer more I call then, Thin and Thick neck = Round Neck. I own ESP KH-2 Vintage, Ibanez S-540ltd and Headless; All of these three are Thin and super thin neck. Those Thin neck are for speed; Where I also own a Gibson Joe Perry Les Paul, this one is Round or Thick neck; that for more bluesy, feel type of neck.

Thin or Super Thin neck Vs Round or Thick Neck

I am into more Thin or Super Thin neck as I believe most ppl do; becoz' they are more comfort to play with, specially while you pick with high speed. For player like Kirk Hammett, Vai, Joe Satriani, Paul Gilbirt and etc etc they are playing with this type of neck. I seldom play with my gibson becoz' the round neck I cannot get the comfort when my finger moving around the finger board... So I lost the interests in picking it up and play.

Next, Neck also got neckthru and bolt on. Most of the guitar structure are bolt on. My Headless and ESP are neck thru, means you won't see any nuts to hold the guitar neck and the body, it's one piece. Where my Ibanez is a bolt on you will see the for nuts is locked the neck to the guitar body. Neckthru structure can give you more sustain when you bend, or do the vibreto things. I personally preffer neck thru sturcutre's guitar but it will cost you more.

Then on guitar neck it has the lenght, means some with 24 frets, 22 frets, 21 frets, 20 frets and 19 frets (of coz' out will have 34 frets guitar but it's rare and custome made). The shorter leght will give you more tone. For tone master like Eric Johnson he will play with 22 frets or less...I never see him play 24 frets guitar. Yngwie play at 21 frets, Joe Satriani play with 22 frets.

When I play my 24 frets guitar, the tone will be less if I play with my 22 frets. You can hear it and feel it with you touch or bend the strings of these two types of freting guitars.

So when choosing the guitar, you have to know about what kind of guitar you want to get. If you are new to guitar, do not worry so much, juz grab the guitar and play it, feel it, it can give you the comfort then bring it home. For an expert guitar player, please do look at the guitar can give you the sound and drive you while you are rocking with it. I won't recommand guitar player go for signature guitar series unless you are guitar collector like me.

next.... will share with you what OngTaiSuan had shared with me about the 5 Ts in guitar playing...stay tune!!

rockon!

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