[staustin]

Well when I started out about 10 years ago I thought I had to stick to 24.75″ scale, because 25.4 felt too much of a stretch, mostly of course in the upper portion of the neck near the nut. So at the time I got a Martin HD-28 but with a short scale (24.75) which was a custom option. However, after several years of doing Tony’s daily challenges low and behold my left hand ‘stretched’ and got better at making the reaches needed and so now I can play both scale lengths without problems. I still have the HD-28 which is a fine guitar, but also a standard sized D-42.