Looking for Acoustic guitar for er.... Full-figured woman

If I'm not mistaken, Greybeard was working on a design but don't know how far he's taken it. (If memory serves me and at this age, ..........................ummm what was I saying?) :oops: :D

I don't have that problem/blessing :lol: but I think I remember it being discussed at some point. Had to have been in 2006 for me to have seen it.

Hmmm, what term(s) to use for a site search??? :shock:

Margaret

Bish, I only came up with a design for an electric:

There's also one for folks, with more of a keg than a 6-pack:

:lol: :lol:

I remember hearing somewhere that Ovation had endorsement from some women guitarists; I don't remember which artists and which guitars, but I'm thinking maybe the bowl shape of the back might have something to do with it. It doesn't have that edge like a normal guitar, which even for me starts to leave a mark after awhile.

Plus, Ovation has the 'super shallow' bowl guitars which may be even more comfortable.

You might check them out.

don't know in particular but i like the 000 size guitars. you might look into that or even an 00 size. they're smaller than the standard size and more comfy, imho.

PRB

I'm assuming you're talking about electric. The main thing is to steer clear of dreadnaught style guitars and to go with those that have more obliging body shapes. As Pearl mentions, "00" and "000" guitars are good. Basically anything that has more of a classical style shape (smaller (and rounder) lower bout and well defined "waist") should work. If you have no problem with the depth of a typical guitar (another issue in itself), you might also find the "jumbo" and "mini jumbo" shapes to be quite comformtable to play. I've a number of female students who use these sorts of guitars and they've no problems with them.

Hope this helps.

Peace

Y'all can laugh if you want to, but this is the God's honest truth! :D

When I play my acoustic dreadnaught style guitars, I wind up having to hold them differently, with it "resting" more to the right on my right leg, in order to "place" my right boob in the "waistline". Otherwise, with the boob not resting in the "waistline", but actually behind a solid piece of the body, I find that the guitar tends to "wobble" a bit, not to mention being a few more inches away from my body, which alters the way I have to hold my fretting hand, making some chords very awkward to play. But, with it just a bit more to the right to accomodate my boob, chording is a piece of cake.

OK ... y'all can laugh at this too......

I sometimes tend to get carried away when playing rhythm and my strums kind of get bigger ( which is not a good thing), but, when I play my acoustics holding them as described above, I immediately know when my strumming hand is getting carried away because I start hitting the boob that's resting in the "waistline" of the guitar, which is my signal to get better control of that hand!!

One more thing, though. If you play a dreadnaught standing up with a strap, it lessens the whole problem immensely.

:) Thanks Elektrablue.. I have a similar problem. It's actually easier for me to play my electric. But I'll look into a dreadnaught.

prblack

Is it okay to look yet? :D

Wonder if there's a guitar made for, um, "full waisted" men? :lol:

Oh yeah, Greybeard's #2 above!

I wouldn't get an ovation. A friend was 220 with double Ds, said it sucked trying to play it sitting, but standing was cool.