Neck profile preferences?

[sunvalleylaw]

That looks like it could be really nice to play with. I will look for a neck like that sometime to try, if one is made. My palm is large, so my overall hand is big enough, but my fingers are kinda short and stubby. I am wondering if getting rid of that bulk in front of my thumb would open up some things. I do like to wrap my thumb over to form chords quite a bit. I wonder how that feels on one of those.

[bek]

I have a v-neck on a mid-1930s Regal resonator, and it is really wonderful. With that type of instrument, of course, it has a flat fingerboard, but it's still great. Other than that I have a couple Linderts, which are something like the OP (deeaa) is talking about, but the high point is moved off-center toward the treble strings. Lindert patented the design, calling it the "Escape Velocity" neck. Thumb-wrapping is essentially automatic, and I still can't believe how comfortable they are. I've had trouble with them seeming to be temperature-sensitive, though, and they have to be removed from the body to adjust them, so it's a gigantic pain. I'm using them for bottleneck (which works perfectly), but I'd love to have a neck made like the Lindert but a little thicker, to see if it would feel as great but be more stable.

[deeaa*]

I don't know if they make anything like that shape these days. Mind you, the shape is not quite consistently that throughout the neck, I shaped it by hand and it changes to more of a U on the davette as you get up the neck and C on the strat.

I got into it almost by accident, I wanted to try and make a neck profile like that and bought that old Charvette for a hundred, just with the idea of destroying the neck basically by shaping it myself. Turned out the best guitar ever, and I also got the strat done the same way. And soon I will do it to the Fying-V as well.

It sure was worth trying...the thumb position is the key. Playing licks it feels like an ultra-thin neck, but when chording you still get the hand support. The bad side is, these days when I play a lot of barres on a normal type neck, my hand tires easily, as it's used to them being very light to play.