Your favourite guitar (from an aesthetic point of view) is made by?

make-and-do

I've only included the main big names in the list to keep it simple (no obscure 60's brands like Eko etc..although I love those) - and probably forgot one or two I'll be whipped for :-\ Like I already mentioned, it's purely from an aesthetic point of view. Not playability or tone or anything technical, etc. Very curious to see the outcome.

Fender gets my vote, Jazzmasters, Jaguars, Tele's. = Yum

(old forum) Poll Results: What's your favourite guitar model from a purely aesthetic, not playability point of view? You can only vote for the representative manufacturer.

Fender: 8
Gibson: 11
Gretsch: 2
Martin: 0
Jackson: 3
Yamaha: 0
Ibanez: 5
Ovation: 0
BC Rich: 4
PRS: 7

Riaan-Combrink

make and do wrote: I've probably forgot one or two I'll be whipped for

Where's the Parker Fly?? ?

dee

PRS Please...

make-and-do

Hehe...yip I'm sure there will be a few queries.

I had PRS in the original list and then moved the names around sequence wise and somehow
managed to delete PRS ???

Amended.

dee

There we go. In terms of looks and aesthetics, I don't think anything can touch a Paul Reed Smith. Maybe a Les Paul Black Beauty, but only maybe ?

JohnnyReggae

I'd have to go with BC Rich ... mostly because they are such bad-ass looking guitars. I really wanted a BC Rich when I first started playing electric .... but ... I love my LP and am glad I went that way rather.

CornFlakes

Fender got my vote...

aja

natural wood finish les paul or candy red parker fly for me ?

AndrewD

Black beauty for the win ?

IceCreamMan

Iceman for me

Bob-Dubery

Most boutique makers and nearly all acoustic-only makers are left out.

It would also be impossible to include them all with radio buttons anyway.

But where do you draw the line? Do you allow makers who produce a single guitar every decade?

stoneblue

If we could vote for boutiques my vote would go to Driskill

Squonk

I would go for PRS and even the Acoustic Range is very pleasing on the eye

Squonk

Another range of guitars that look good, never played one though

Patrick James Eggle Acoustic Guitars

http://www.eggle.co.uk/

singemonkey

No guitar has ever done for me visually what Jimmy Page's '59 Les Paul Standard did when I saw it on The Song Remains the Same, 20 years ago or so. What knocked me out about it is that it looks really old-fashioned in an odd way. Here's this guy with silver platform shoes and he's got this guitar that looks like it belongs to the 1920s at most. The hokey pickguard. The carved-top like a violin. The funny old switch that looks like something on an F6 Hellcat dashboard. The huge pickups that look like WWII tech. Just one little cutaway.

Les Pauls are incredibly conservative looking. And it creates such a contrast with the music they're used for. The reason I like the Asian clones is that to me, the original Les Pauls were aesthetically perfect - down to the placement of knobs, the depth of the top carve, the proportion of the upper and lower bouts. So I've never been interested in guitars that are kinda like Les Pauls. Because any deviation is a flaw.

Aesthetically, they are the opposite of the Stratocaster, which still looks incredibly modern and space-age to this day - even though they were designed only a few years apart. The Stratocaster is an unbeatable piece of industrial design. And a piece of pure Americana. But I still prefer the conservative, "European" looks of the Les Paul.

[deleted]

Ovation?

Acoustic I would have to go for Kevin Ryan
The Ghost - specifically this one

http://www.ryanguitars.com/NewsandEvents/GuitarsForSale/TheGhost.htm

Bob-Dubery

I wonder if I'm alone :'( in thinking that PRS are actually overdone and thus not appealing to the eye. I acknowledge the quality of the work, but they overdo the popped maple top thing quite majorly IMO.

All sorts of things strike me as being really cool, but I can't define it - like pornography I know it when I see it.

If forced into a corner I'd probably go for Fylde, Collings or Breedlove.

singemonkey

Squonk wrote: Another range of guitars that look good, never played one though

Patrick James Eggle Acoustic Guitars

http://www.eggle.co.uk/

A buddy of mine was given one by the insurance company to replace his mid-70's Les Paul Custom. It's a really good guitar. But it still wasn't a wine red, mid-'70s Les Paul Custom. ? While the Eggle has probably crept up in value, that mint LP woulda been worth a bomb now. :-\

No. But it's a superbly made guitar. Sounds beautiful. Top-drawer.

singemonkey

X-rated Bob wrote: I wonder if I'm alone :'( in thinking that PRS are actually overdone and thus not appealing to the eye. I acknowledge the quality of the work, but they overdo the popped maple top thing quite majorly IMO.

All sorts of things strike me as being really cool, but I can't define it - like pornography I know it when I see it.

If forced into a corner I'd probably go for Fylde, Collings or Breedlove.

There're PRSs and PRSs. I admit that they make a lot for the "the-more-zany-the-top-the-better" crowd. But they're not all over the top. I just don't dig how they sound, me. Kinda half way between a Gibson and a Fender and the final effect on me is: luke-warm.

Has there ever been a classic guitar piece recorded on one? I can't think of any. I'm not dissing them though. They're brilliantly made and very attractive guitars. It just strikes me as strange that I've never heard one on any well known guitar piece.

Bob-Dubery

singemonkey wrote: Has there ever been a classic guitar piece recorded on one? I can't think of any. I'm not dissing them though. They're brilliantly made and very attractive guitars. It just strikes me as strange that I've never heard one on any well known guitar piece.

There must be loads of Santana recordings made with a PRS.