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Thread #71938   Message #2082400
Posted By: Don Firth
20-Jun-07 - 02:03 PM
Thread Name: Looking for a wide-neck guitar
Subject: RE: Looking for a wide-neck guitar
Thanks, GUEST,Ca, but I don't think so at this point. It sounded like a great idea a couple of years ago, but for the last fifteen years or so, I've had to use a wheelchair. Trying to play a full-size guitar (including my classics) while sitting in a wheelchair is difficult because the lower bout of the guitar and the right wheel want to occupy the same space. This throws the guitar out of position, making it very awkward to play. It took me awhile to work this out, but I now use a small travel guitar made by Sam Radding in San Diego. It looks like a canoe paddle with strings, but it sounds amazingly like a full-size guitar. Clicky. Good luck finding the F-25 a good home.

I would hope that, by now, JWR has found what he's looking for. But if not, the F-25 might be the very thing. As an alternate idea, Sam Radding, who made my travel guitar (GO-GW, nylon-string), in addition to the travel guitars, makes a very nice small-bodied parlor guitar, either steel-string or nylon-string. He's also willing to do a bit of customizing (at my request, he made me a nylon-string GO-GW with a full 2" classic fingerboard—normally, his nylon-string guitars have a 17/8" fingerboard), so he might be game to make a steel-string parlor guitar with a wider neck. Sam's a real nice guy to work with. He wants to make darn sure you're happy with whatever instrument he makes for you.

To see what the parlor guitar looks like (complete with dimensions), Click Here and scroll down. I ran across a review of the parlor guitar on Harmony Central awhile back, and it was downright glowing.

Good hunting!

Don Firth