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I was having this discussion with my bother in-law last night (what’s your opinion?)

Were all the great guitar designs used up by the start of the 70’s, not counting variations on past designs (so no super Strats or Tele deluxes etc). The only one I could think of is:

Pretty much every guitar's design (of course there are exceptions, but there are exceptions, not rules) could probably be traced back to old acoustics.
The hourglass kinda thing just owes itself well to a guitar. It sits will on your legs, sits nicely when standing and provides a good amount of access to the neck as well as keeping the thing relatively strong. Add some horns for style and there you go.

That guitar you posted looks like a retarded offset telecaster derivative. It's not greatly original, turn this round bit pointy, add a big spike here and there.

the only person i can think of is fred mangan, but he just kinda makes guitars out of junk.

this one is owned by josh homme

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this one's a film reel.


this one is my personal favorite


and this is just dangerous

not a fan of BC Rich.

but travis bean yes.



the yamahas and ibanezes we've been talking about recently.

SG2000


Artist



I don't think the designs have been used up just there are only so many designs that look like a guitar. like reece said, most guitar designs are after the shape of an acoustic guitar. the more you start just making up random shapes it just gets dumb.

those are all really just double cut les pauls. that design has been around forever.

Reece wrote: That guitar you posted looks like a retarded offset telecaster derivative. It's not greatly original, turn this round bit pointy, add a big spike here and there.

Body shape inspirations aside, it's very Flying V/Explorer ('58 design) in execution. I don't imagine it being very different to one... And then in the 80s all those guitars were tricked out in the same ways.

endsjustifymeans wrote:those are all really just double cut les pauls. that design has been around forever.

ok then a les paul is basically just a telecaster then because it's just a cutaway solid body electric.

mage wrote:
but travis bean yes.

Yep! The TB definitely had original design qualities. and looked cool.

i added a band on myspace yesterday who have one of those beans ^

that's 3 bands i've seen in edinburgh/glasgow in the past couple of years with travis beans. where the hell are they getting them?

mage wrote:

endsjustifymeans wrote:those are all really just double cut les pauls. that design has been around forever.

ok then a les paul is basically just a telecaster then because it's just a cutaway solid body electric.

with humbucking pickups, a stop tail piece and set-neck design.

well, let's call it what it is. those travis beans are nothing new. oohhhh, wait, instead of a stop tail, they used a strat hardtail, and cut a 't' into the headstock.

fuck, and the neck is aluminum or summit, eh? i'll give you that, but designwise, not groundbreaking.

not as conservative as acoustic guitar design, jeessssuuuuuusssss! a cutaway has some people getting irked

mage wrote:

not to thread jack
but this place is one of the most over priced places i've ever been to buy a guitar.
no space to wander about, way over priced mustangs and RI's

dezb1 wrote:The only one I could think of is:

That is pretty awesome. BC dont get the credit they deserve amongst the more conservative/classic shape users. The Warlock and Bich neck thru natural models are also beautiful guitars.

I cant really think of much else either, even the Jackson RR5 is a Flying V variant.

Ok what about this:



It was good enough for Jimmy Page.

hotrodperlmutter wrote:

mage wrote:

endsjustifymeans wrote:those are all really just double cut les pauls. that design has been around forever.

ok then a les paul is basically just a telecaster then because it's just a cutaway solid body electric.

with humbucking pickups, a stop tail piece and set-neck design.

well, let's call it what it is. those travis beans are nothing new. oohhhh, wait, instead of a stop tail, they used a strat hardtail, and cut a 't' into the headstock.

fuck, and the neck is aluminum or summit, eh? i'll give you that, but designwise, not groundbreaking.

yep.

hotrodperlmutter wrote:

mage wrote:

endsjustifymeans wrote:those are all really just double cut les pauls. that design has been around forever.

ok then a les paul is basically just a telecaster then because it's just a cutaway solid body electric.

with humbucking pickups, a stop tail piece and set-neck design.

well, let's call it what it is. those travis beans are nothing new. oohhhh, wait, instead of a stop tail, they used a strat hardtail, and cut a 't' into the headstock.

fuck, and the neck is aluminum or summit, eh? i'll give you that, but designwise, not groundbreaking.

yea, ok the artist and sg2000 are very les paul like, it's true, but I think they are still relatively original in shape at least. gibson has never made a guitar like either of them.

The travis bean I think is definitely very original. true, I guess they didn't reinvent the entire concept of solid body guitar. but the pickups, shape, and construction are all unique designs.

dezb1 wrote:Ok what about this:



It was good enough for Jimmy Page.

i've always quite liked them, for some reason. even though it looks like the guitar that guy from babylon zoo would play.

for some reason i really love these.