The pattern
Buddy Shagmore indicates, if I understand his post, that the Wide-Fat was larger than the Pattern. I'm still confused, which is not an unusual thing for me.
They're pretty close to each other. I have a several to compare. There is a slight difference but more or less similar. May even be more of a variance from neck to neck due to hand sanding. Larger would be the pattern vintage.
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The variation in the necks is what I kind of like about the older instruments. They really do have an individual personality put there by the hands that built it. I get the consistency of the newer guitars and I like those as well. To me something hand made always wins. I would much rather buy hand crafted items than something machine made. I am someone who is a supported of people who hand craft things. It has been part of my family since before I was born. I have made a number of things over the years and sold them. I have some very fond memories of making wood items as well as knives with family members.They're hand-sanded during the build process. These damned earthlings never do anything the exact same way twice with their hands!
People say they love hand-made, individually produced stuff, but it isn't true.
They really want predictability and uniformity, and that's why they pay lip service to hand-made, but buy as much molded, stamped, machined and CNC stuff that needs no hand work as they can cram into their homes.
Never mind that most of it winds up in landfills.
PRS uses machines, too, of course, but then there's that inconvenient, hand-sanded, people-crafted finished product that we are forced against our will to contend with, making each guitar just a little bit unique.
What a shame that the best way to buy a musical instrument - in this day and age of never having to leave the house to actually shop - is still to pick it up, play it, listen to it, and feel it, right?
She has finally started selling some of the stuff she makes to women she knows. She wanted to be very sure that it was going to be of a quality that hold up well. IMHO, she is selling her stuff way too cheap. You have to start somewhere...
The Pattern is base on the original width fat the measurements are the same , the edges are slightly more rolled on the Pattern.
Absolutely Les. I've come to realize that because I’m really picky about my guitar neck size(es) that all my PRS’s I’ve had the chance to play in person before purchasing have been perfect for me, xcept one. …..And that was the 2012 P-22 I bought through Reverb with a Pattern regular neck that is just a bit thin . Considering what it is and the very reasonable cost I paid for it, , it’s close enough. The jumbo frets, McCarty thickness body, 53/10 pickups, Goldtop over highly flamed maple, wicked tone, stoptailpiece and that great Baggs/PRS acoustic pickup offset my neck idealism . Again, I mistook the Pattern regular as being larger than the Pattern neck, hence this thread….But they do all vary a bit. My favorite neck is still the Pattern which is on my Stripped SC58.I’d call it a large Pattern, but much more refined than the wide fat necks on cores I’ve owned in the pastThey're hand-sanded during the build process. These damned earthlings never do anything the exact same way twice with their hands!
People say they love hand-made, individually produced stuff, but it isn't true.
They really want predictability and uniformity, and that's why they pay lip service to hand-made, but buy as much molded, stamped, machined and CNC stuff that needs no hand work as they can cram into their homes.
Never mind that most of it winds up in landfills.
PRS uses machines, too, of course, but then there's that inconvenient, hand-sanded, people-crafted finished product that we are forced against our will to contend with, making each guitar just a little bit unique.
What a shame that the best way to buy a musical instrument - in this day and age of never having to leave the house to actually shop - is still to pick it up, play it, listen to it, and feel it, right?
I agree with you. It's so completely the way to go -- that way you know what you're getting yourself into!
