wide vs thick?

I'd agree with that. I think the most common case of misuse is people referring to width as thickness.

 

Sounds right to me.

 

Yep - wide/flat necks = good!
Thick, narrow neck = very bad!!

 

Some may also mean:

width of neck = width of the outer strings

 

That's the description I use all the time. Flat and wide is my preference. I played a Fender Jazz 4 the other day that just about killed me... very small radius on the neck and fretboard. Everything was very round and C shaped. Some dig it... whatever. After the first few notes I could just feel my Carpal Tunnel starting to flare up.

 

Whoa. To much dirty movies for me.

When I saw the title of this thread......

ANYWAYS.

Sounds right to me to man.

 

i've heard luthiers (and other TB regulars) refer to neck thickness (front to back) as neck PROFILE.

 

I've always used profile to describe the shape of the neck.

C profiled neck, D profiled neck, etc.

 

you're right~
i guess that was the context i had heard it used in...
so it wouldn't be wrong to say the neck profile is thick or thin, etc.

 

Now that I think of it, I think a lot of the confusion comes when someone says "thin," which can be taken as either narrow side-to-side or shallow front-to-back.

 

How would you guys define Warwick necks?

everyone has told me that GSR's have thin necks(my bass)

I can't tell


I only can tell width...

-Jon

 

I could make a wiener joke about now......

 

This sounds like a subject you overhear on a "Girls' Night Out".

 

Darn, you beat me to it...

 

Am I the only wierdo who uses the terms, "string spacing" and "Girth"?

 

I use string spacing when I'm getting specific to say like, the strings are 18 mm apart or somethin, but generally I'll say wide and thick. I think I am one of the most impartial players out there as far as neck shapes. I can play the skinny fat ibanez necks or the wide flat conklin ones fine. Maybe I'm nto old enough to feel the pain in my hands yet or something, who knows. Hopefully I won't regret buying the "baseball bat" necked Czech spector.

 

I'm not sure - that might be confused with the shape of the neck, rather than actual thickness.

So - you might see the Tobias basses referred to as having an assymetrical neck profile - but it doesn't tell you how thick?

 

EXACTLY! i agree with you. (my first post was misleading in the way i worded it) sorry!
Thickness is just an adjective. it refers to/describes the PROFILE.

so you could say "X bass has a thick C profile" as opposed to "X bass is thick front to back - don't confuse that with width"