MX-II Nut Width 42mm or 43mm???
MX-II Nut Width 42mm or 43mm???
String spacing is generally wider on a wider neck. And surprisingly, that 1 or 2 millimeters makes a bigger difference than one might imagine.
I'm used to 42mm nuts...played a 43mm nut..didn't like it at all! WAY to wide for me IMO.
Whats up with george lynch? he uses a 45mm neck width but 43 nut width?
I don't have an MX-II but I thought Jaymz preferred a 42mm nut with a Thin U profile.. and I figured the MX would be the same.
but then again, maybe not ;) perhaps one of the MX owners can tell you.
Yeah all the JH sigs (but the JH-1 IMO Pushead chime in....I felt it mine had a thick neck) felt thinner neck wise and width wise. I am so used to the MX's and the custom MX's I had made so when I get on the IC it takes a few minutes to get used to. Plus I dunno....question for the crowd. All my guitars BUT the IC are tuned to D and Open C with EB bottom heavies.....but when I play eflat on the IC I am not as good as I am with the lower tunings. Do you guys find that you get used to a tuning and gauge that when you back to an old or other upper tuning you have issues?Thanks.
My JH-1 does not feel as wide as my MX. I'm not sure if it's any bigger from the fretboard to the back of the neck, but the MX feels a bit bigger which I assume is only because of the wider neck.
I don't have much problem changing tunings and gauges as long as I tweak the neck and intonation, on my guitars, but I typically leave guitars in tunings for extended periods of time. I guess I'm lucky enough to have several guitars to cover multiple tunings. (Sean, both the PPE and the FT are sitting in C standard.)
I don't have a metric tape measure, but it's around 1 3/4" which by my high school math is 44.5 mm.
When I got the guitar, it felt very wide in the first position in terms of string spacing. It took a bit to get used do. For reference, my Eclipse is around 1 11/16" (1/16" smaller).