PRS neck closest to Ovation Legend Acoustic

[Wing12]

Does anyone know the closest PRS neck to the Ovation Legend Acoustic?
Reason being the ovation neck is perfect for me have small hands.

 

[Tim S]

Hmmm... I have an Ovation Custom Balladeer. I don’t know if it shares the same neck carve as yours. But if it does, then I would guess the Pattern Regular (as found on many S2 models mar be closest).

I too have small hands (men’s small glove size), but I found the Wide/Fat neck ended up feeling most the natural to me.

I think you’ll need to try some of the different PRS neck shapes without pre-conceived notions. You might be surprised with what you prefer.

 

[Jo-]

I used to have Ovations years ago (Std Balladeers) until I discovered PRS HB's nearly 20 years ago. My female hands are also very small (the size of a 12 year old?) but I do have a good stretch considering I have short fingers. For me I find the wide fat neck feels the most comfortable (is that what they call the pattern neck today?) I found the wide thin neck the most uncomfortable as it sometimes makes my thumb cramp up.

 

[bodia]

I used to have Ovations years ago (Std Balladeers) until I discovered PRS HB's nearly 20 years ago. My female hands are also very small (the size of a 12 year old?) but I do have a good stretch considering I have short fingers. For me I find the wide fat neck feels the most comfortable (is that what they call the pattern neck today?) I found the wide thin neck the most uncomfortable as it sometimes makes my thumb cramp up.

Yes, W/F was replaced by Pattern.

 

[Wing12]

Thanks. It seems it is between a pattern regular and wide fat neck. I will try them and see which feels best.

 

[Tim S]

Thanks. It seems it is between a pattern regular and wide fat neck. I will try them and see which feels best.

Please do. It’s also good to try the Wide/Thin if you have the opportunity. Just because a couple of us feel one way, it doesn’t automatically mean you will feel the same way.

I just didn’t want you to fall into the false assumption of “small hands/small neck” and rule out anything else without trying them for yourself and making your own decision.

There are few things more fun than trying new neck shapes for the first time. Please report back with your findings. That info could help others (and you have me curious now as well)

 

[Jo-]

It's strange because I would definitely think that small hands would prefer a small neck, but I found in my experience the thinner neck to actually be uncomfortable/painful whereas the fatter neck feels perfect for me. I pick it up and I don't have to think does this neck feel comfortable.. it just is .. whereas the thin was .. eeooowww this is starting to hurt.