"Again, it can sound like crap, this is purely looks here".
Then you said "Are you guys basing these solely on looks rather than sound? Cuz I have a real hard time accepting it if you are".
Forgive me if i'm confused :confused:
We're all different and we all like different things - that's I guess why you'd ask such a question in the first place. Imagine if we were all the same and all liked B C Rich guitars :eek:
For what it's worth I guess i'm pretty conservative - The most beautiful guitars in the world to me are my own two guitars (hey, who ever owned up to having ugly children): An ash-bodied sunburt strat and a black Epiphone Sheraton. I'm similar to the other poster in that grain is important to me and I can drool over the semi-translucent paint finish on my strats ash body until kingdom come. I know the strat is a bit old hat but the reason it's been so popular for so long is because it is such a perfect shape. I don't like super strat's like Ibanez's but then I can appreciate why some people might be attracted to them (Perversely i do actually like the shape of Akira's guitar but i'd have to re-spray it). I like PRSPlayers guitar (Is that a jar of pickled onions to the right of the whisky?) but i do think PRS guitars in general are fairly damn gorgeous. And yes the Les Paul was nice but then hey - we're on to classic shapes again and the LES Paul is up there in my opinion. The only guitar that i've never really dug is the SG - I just can't see any inherent beauty in it's design at all. I guess people buy them because they sound so amazing.