50s or 60s neck on your Les Pauls?

Same here, the '58 profile felt a little more stable and I think also helps fatten the tone up just a hair.  The '60s do play very fast and comfortably but for big bends and diggin' in I like the late '50s profile myself.

I was in the same boat as you with smaller hands.  I was worried about using the chunkier neck while I was looking for my '58.  I did a lot of reseach and skope to  a lot of music stores and asked them to measure the neck for me.  The lead guitarist in my band has a '59 which has a fairly thick neck..actually too thick for me.  My Les Paul Traditional is a little thinner than his '59.  I was able to fine a '58 with a thinner neck than both but it is thicker than any '60 neck I tried.  I have to admit that the little extra thcikness of my '58 over the '60's neck works so well for me.  It just comes down to how does it feel for you.  With the '58 the neck just sits in my hand just right...just feel natural....

Prefer the slim necks of my 70s customs.

When I was looking for a new Paul I thought I wanted a slim 60's neck played a lot of them and liked them, but when I played my Traditional Plus which is thicker than the 60's but not a 50's neck I was in love. The tone just seem much Fatter with the thicker neck espically playing bends and I couldn't believe how easy it was to play. I had a Studio with a 50's neck and hated it.

Same here!!

Others who knew how much I liked my Clapton Strat neck told me I'd hate the 50's neck... They were wrong .. Now I don't like the 60s neck LPs

I have an old Les Paul 60's Classic.  The new Les Paul Standards with a 60's neck feel bigger to me.  I always felt the Classic was geared towards metal music because the neck feels shallow and thin where 60's standards feel more rounded like a C shape. My Classic feels like a thinU shape flat in the center and rouned on the edges.  A few years back I played a 58' reissue don't ask me if it was a R8,R9 or whatever they have.  I know that the R8's are suposed to be the bigger necks and all the R reffers to is the neck size.  Anyway's I hate the my Classic's neck I bought it when I wanted a les Paul and had been playing for all of 2 years and didn't know what I wanted.  I settled for the First Les Paul I had ever seen and got a really great price for it, but other then the looks of it's beautiful plain top I hated its sound and playing ablity.  I had an SG standard and it's got a much faster neck with its rounded profile then my Classic.  The 58' Reissue was going to be my main choice of guitar for a Gibson.  It was a burbon burst and the neck was very chuncky but which I like for playing chords on.  It kind of slowed me down on leads too which was actually a good thing because I tend to over play things and have to force myself to use the less is more mind set.  I never bought the guitar, life interuppted that for a while, but someday I'll get my hands on another burbon burst Plain top 58' Reissue Les Paul (my dream guitar)  Maybe not for 20 years but if they make em' when I get around to it having the money it will be mine!