Guitars Seem The Same But Feel Different? Options

[yoncopin]

I have a few guitars and find myself wanting to play different ones on any given day. Feature wise they are all fairly similar, but I find some much easier to play than others. For example, my Strat with a Warmoth compound radius neck and my Ibanez S671. Both have a very similar fretboard radius, fret size and neck width/profile. They are both 25.5" scale and I have the Strat trem blocked, so it's effectively the same as the Saber's fixed bridge. They've both been setup the same, by me, using the same measured neck relief and string height.

Despite all that, the string tension still seems different to me, and it's much easier to bend and get clear sustaining notes out of the Ibanez on high strings/high frets (as an example). Obviously, these are two separate instruments and have other differences too, but sometimes it frustrates me that I can't get the Strat to play as well. This leads me to think there's something "wrong" or needs fixing on the Strat, because it seems that it really should be able to play as well.

I pretty much always reach for the Ibanez, because it feels the best, and sometimes it makes me wonder why I even own the others. Does anyone else have this feeling? Am I being too much of a perfectionist?

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