Difference in feel between two almost identical guitars?

[theDeepender]

Of course they feel different.
I would wager that they sound different as well.

It is not in your head.

These 2 guitars have different fingerboards.
These 2 guitars have different finishes.
These 2 guitars have different backs.
One of them has uncovered pickups.
The other has covered pickups.

How are they "almost identical"?

Great point.

 

[Jo-]

Definitely not in your head. If I were in your shoes, I would snag guitar 2, regardless of the color. Getting that same model in a different color doesn't mean it's going to feel just like that guitar you bonded with.

Unfortunately this!
I have a few guitars I don’t like the colors/tops of, but I keep them because they ‘felt right’ to me.

As Bodia says, snag guitar 2 because that’s the one that speaks to you.

 

[GnarCalShrddr]

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Guitar 2 the one I can’t stop playing



Guitar 1, the color I love

 

[theDeepender]

One summer (many moons ago) I went to the carnival for the area where I went to school. I had finished the last couple of years in another county. At a booth in the carnival was the prettiest girl in my class when I was there. I struck up a conversation with her and asked her out. She said that she always wondered why I never asked her out while I was in school. (It was because I considered her WAY out of my league) I took her out, and we had fun for a while, until I discovered on that first date that she had no personality and relied on drugs to “really have fun”. Lesson learned. Looks ain’t everything.

 

[ViperDoc]

If you can’t seem to put a certain guitar down, then don’t. Buy that axe, bro!

 

[Rod/]

Each guitar has its own soul. That gives it a unique feel and tone. I tell people that when I do a setup on a guitar, I set the action to where the guitar wants it to be set. Each guitar has a setting that just feels easier to play. I set everything to measurements that I know will get me into the ballpark and then start fine tuning from there. I also like to say that they all have their individual personality, just like we do.

“Each guitar has its own soul”. Perfect and so true……