Hello New Member, Cincinnati

[Nokie]

Welcome to the forum, Axis. You've got a nice Ventures Model there. I would not put any energy in to changing the neck. I feel the same way as you about the narrow neck width being difficult to negotiate but changing yours to a wider neck will cancel the great mojo of an original Ventures Model Mosrite.
-Marty

[axis9313]

It's either that or sell it, because it's not right for it to be sitting in the closet unplayed. But as you said it has such great mojo, that I can't let it go either. Ergo, trying the wider neck.

Actually I already tried sort of a half finished 25-1/2" scale neck on it as an experiment. It still had a neat Mosritey sound, but as you would expect, it was starting to get a Strat-ish sound because of the longer scale length. But it still seemed to have plenty of mojo.

If my experiment fails, I can always put the original neck back on and go from there. That's the nice thing about bolt on necks.

[Nokie]

Well okay but when I talk of mojo, I'm not talking about the sound or the feel of a guitar - I'm just talking about the general aura of an all original vintage guitar.-Marty