Casi1
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So this is how I got in trouble.
What had happened was...
You guys were right. The Santana shape is awesome. I don’t know why but I hate ‘big’ guitars so I figured I would hate the Santana. The truth is it’s fits a female (and probably a male) body shape perfectly... When I play it seated, the guitar fits perfectly into the ‘between boob and hip’ notch. And it stays there. All happy. It doesn’t wiggle and try to slide down like a strat.
I was also surprised that the neck shape wasn’t too big for me. My McCarty has a Pattern neck which is fine but my hand doesn’t like the SE’s wide fat... it starts to cramp immediately with that shape. It’s something about the non-rounded shoulders + the flat radius. I’m guessing the Santana neck must be close to Pattern because it felt fine.
Here’s where I get in PS land... I like bare wood necks. I like them so much that I vowed to never ever ever never to buy another glossy neck’d guitar. I even thought of scruffing up the gloss on a mint Korina McCarty just to make the sticky gloss disappear. That’s how much I dislike sticky gloss. Also, I don’t know that I love the Santana pickups... I would switch them out, but then the guitar wouldn’t be a Santana no more. But it would still be awesome.
So basically, I’d be paying PS money for the Santana shape and for the option of a trem (or I’d buy a tricked out Mira instead). I am not a Carlos fan but I dig the shape of his guitar. What to do?
What had happened was...
You guys were right. The Santana shape is awesome. I don’t know why but I hate ‘big’ guitars so I figured I would hate the Santana. The truth is it’s fits a female (and probably a male) body shape perfectly... When I play it seated, the guitar fits perfectly into the ‘between boob and hip’ notch. And it stays there. All happy. It doesn’t wiggle and try to slide down like a strat.
I was also surprised that the neck shape wasn’t too big for me. My McCarty has a Pattern neck which is fine but my hand doesn’t like the SE’s wide fat... it starts to cramp immediately with that shape. It’s something about the non-rounded shoulders + the flat radius. I’m guessing the Santana neck must be close to Pattern because it felt fine.
Here’s where I get in PS land... I like bare wood necks. I like them so much that I vowed to never ever ever never to buy another glossy neck’d guitar. I even thought of scruffing up the gloss on a mint Korina McCarty just to make the sticky gloss disappear. That’s how much I dislike sticky gloss. Also, I don’t know that I love the Santana pickups... I would switch them out, but then the guitar wouldn’t be a Santana no more. But it would still be awesome.
So basically, I’d be paying PS money for the Santana shape and for the option of a trem (or I’d buy a tricked out Mira instead). I am not a Carlos fan but I dig the shape of his guitar. What to do?