neck profile : stingray vs sterling

[ialma]

It's probably been done to death and I have done some search on TB without answers before posting this.
I bought a Stingray and a Sterling.
I'm A-B ing them but I've been surprised by the fact that apart from neck width at nut (the sterling narrower than the SR), the stingray neck profile is way much thinner than sterling's (which has not a baseball bat but is very very far from my idea of a thin neck) while I have been told it was the exact opposite. Any idea?
I've been told that it's a matter of production years.
The Sterling has been built in 1999 and the Stingray is much more recent (2005-2006)
If someone could shed some light on the subject it would be greatly appriciated.
Thank you

 

[G2K]

Hmmn, I have a sterling and have played numerous stingrays. Although the thickness is minimal, I always felt the stingray neck to be thicker. Mind you I have never actually measured either. My experience would be dealing with instruments produced between 2006-2009. Probably no help to you here.

 

[ialma]

I measured with a caliper at 3rd fret and there is a 2 mm difference between the SR (slimmer) and the ST (fatter)

 

[mgauge]

Me too, I own a 2004 sterling and just sold my 2007 ray. Felt like to me that the Sterling neck had a 'thinner' profile....

But love them both

 

[i_got_a_mohawk]

Don't have a sterling (got a couple 'rays tho), but when I compared them in store the sterling at least seemed to have a thinner neck, felt thinner anyway.

 

[mikeswals]

I have owned many of them, and definitely noticed that since the final neck shaping is done by hand, the thicknesses vary greatly. I've had a few Rays with nice slim necks, but most having clubby necks.

 

[thehangingmist]

if i ever get a stingway i hope i get one with a thinner neck

 

[Boogie.Man]

I have a Sterling and I have a SLO StingRay (has the Sterling profile neck. I also have a StingRay Classic and a Warwick. They all seem to work for me. But if I had to pick, I'd go with the Sterling neck.