. Plus I see people posting that a particular model has a baseball bat neck when I have owned that same model and talked with other owners and their response is no way. There is a lot of subjective anecdotal guessing out (Not referring to this Forum) there. ...
I used to say also that since hands themselves vary in size:
"Chunky is in the hand of the holder".
Also, gripping characteristics/preferences of the hands themselves change over the years, or at least they have in my case:
My D40 always felt like the action was a little high, strings felt like they required a little more pressure to fret cleanly when it was new.
"Aha!" I said to myself, recalling an early '80's MIK Fender F210 acoustic I'd had: "It must be the Fender set-up" (the box for that guitar proudly proclaimed "Set up by Fender in USA")
And yet the strings were the same as the D25, and the action height was virtually identical at the factory spec of 5.5/64ths and I couldn't measure any difference in nut slot clearance from fretboard.
One night a couple of years in, while bonding with it, I was looking closely at the neck and it jumped out at me: the neck actually had a slight "bulge", a visible increase in thickness at about the 7th fret (possibly an actual shaping flaw for all I know), and I also realized the neck profile was quite a different shape than my 2 Westerlys.
Those 2 were modern Flat ovals or very close while the D40 was a D verging on a C, what I'd genuinely define as "baseball bat".
It was also not as comfortable to play scales higher up the neck at that time.
But over the last 5 or 6 years it's become very comfortable to me and it's the D25 that feels a bit too thin (shallow depth) to me now in certain situations.
Go figure.
And while I still love my F65ce to death, I started realizing what I think I really want in that body size is the 24-3/4" scale with a 1-11/16 nut with a little more "beef" than the modern flat oval.
I also played a 1-3/4 nut Larrivee a buddy brought over once and while it would have taken some getting used to, at least the string spacing at the bridge kept the strings from being altogether too far apart for my relatively small hands, high up the neck where I do go a lot. Don't remember what scale length was and neck profile didn't make an immediate impression.
Take-away for Mikey is that sometimes a less-than ideal nut width can be compensated by other details like the neck profile, so don't despair.
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