Hand Size

I played my Stewart Stowaway while on vacation and I realized I really like the neck.  When I got back I immediately measured it and found:

Radius	9 1/2 inches
Width at 1st Fret	0.80 inches
Width at 12th Fret	0.93 inches
Fret Size	0.043x0.105 inches

This is kind of disappointing, since it's a thin wimpy neck with low frets.  I'm getting the impression that cool guys use fat necks with jumbo frets.  Actually these frets seem weird to me, since they are quite low, but also quite wide.

I've been wondering about how hand sizes are measured and how that correlates to what the ideal neck dimensions are.  I had asked Warmoth about this, and the answer was that it's not possible (or they don't know how) to infer the right neck size from hand dimensions.  Ha!   I found some useful data at the anthrokids website. Based on some very sloppy measurements, it seems that my hands are quite average size, except for a long index finger.