Nice guitars ruined by one feature...

WildWayz

Lewy said:

PRS Silver Sky is ruined for me by the birds. If they had dots, I'd likely have one by now.

So buy a Fender Strat

Aidanspaghetti

The price.

Lewy

WildWayz said:

Lewy said:

PRS Silver Sky is ruined for me by the birds. If they had dots, I'd likely have one by now.

So buy a Fender Strat

Oh I have strats I just like the PRS take on it (minus the birds).

DiscoStu

Angled humbuckers.

Gold hardware.

Fifty9

Slim necks on 99.999% of 335s

Rocker

Lewy said:

PRS Silver Sky is ruined for me by the birds. If they had dots, I'd likely have one by now.

That is about as daft a reason for not buying a guitar as any I have heard.

Exorcist

artiebear said:

Anything in the 80's with a fxxxxxx Kahler .

Ah man, I would rather have a Kahler than a Floyd, these days I'd rather have neither, but always found the Khaler so much easier to setup/change strings. 

Philly_Q

Rocker said:

Lewy said:

PRS Silver Sky is ruined for me by the birds. If they had dots, I'd likely have one by now.

That is about as daft a reason for not buying a guitar as any I have heard.

Isn't that the point of this thread?  They're all daft, or most of them anyway.

Lewy

Rocker said:

Lewy said:

PRS Silver Sky is ruined for me by the birds. If they had dots, I'd likely have one by now.

That is about as daft a reason for not buying a guitar as any I have heard.

Severely disliking a significant aesthetic feature of a guitar is about as daft a reason for not buying a guitar as any you have ever heard?

Would you be so kind as to furnish us with the next few runner up reasons so I can gauge what kind of c*nt I am?

NelsonP

digitalscream said:

Every PRS, with birds on the fretboard

FTFY

Jonathanthomas83

All James Tylor guitars =- by the awful headstock.

HAL9000

Rocker said:

Lewy said:

PRS Silver Sky is ruined for me by the birds. If they had dots, I'd likely have one by now.

That is about as daft a reason for not buying a guitar as any I have heard.

Surely most of us, deep down, can be pretty shallow when it comes to guitars. Not buying something because it's got bird inlays is surely no worse than not buying something that you don't like the colour/headstock shape/body style of. A good guitar is a good guitar regardless of its aesthetics but these things absolutely influence our buying choices.

stickyfiddle

Philly_Q said:

normula1 said:

The cutaways an a Gibson ES339 are way too tight to get my hand in, and my hands are not in any way big

I'm very fond of my CS-336 but you're right, the cutaways are very tight.  I guess they decided the body proportions would look weird if they widened the cutaways.

They had bigger horns and cutaways on the early ES-336 model, but it was weird looking. I have to say I’ve never had trouble with my 336. Maybe I have small hands(?) but it’s only a smidge worse than an SG - I don’t find it any worse than a Tele.

bbill335

Lodious said:

Musicman's nut width. 

i like narrow nuts, and i'd say that a wide nut (43-45mm) could ruin an otherwise nice guitar for me!

normula1

stickyfiddle said:

Philly_Q said:

normula1 said:

The cutaways an a Gibson ES339 are way too tight to get my hand in, and my hands are not in any way big

I'm very fond of my CS-336 but you're right, the cutaways are very tight.  I guess they decided the body proportions would look weird if they widened the cutaways.

They had bigger horns and cutaways on the early ES-336 model, but it was weird looking. I have to say I’ve never had trouble with my 336. Maybe I have small hands(?) but it’s only a smidge worse than an SG - I don’t find it any worse than a Tele.

I was playing it earlier tonight and the top two frets are almost unusable, which is a shame as the rest of the guitar is wonderful.... actually just remembered another flaw, the taper on the volume pots is way too dramatic between 10 and 9 if you play clean. I will bite the bullet and change the pots at some point.

Bellycaster

Any Fender Guitar that has a Brilliant White Pickguard with White Pick Ups to match.

TTBZ

bbill335 said:

Lodious said:

Musicman's nut width. 

i like narrow nuts, and i'd say that a wide nut (43-45mm) could ruin an otherwise nice guitar for me!

Same for me, feels horrible. Pretty much rules out every Ibanez/other shreddy guitars. I love the feel of Musicman necks, I’d have one if they weren’t so dear!

historyisjunk

crunchman said:

Location of the mud switch on Gretsches.

On my Les Paul, I can just flick my hand up to change pickups easily without having to look.  On my Gretsch, I have to be really careful not to hit the mud switch.

Actually, the mud switch is a good candidate. Though "ruined" would be putting it way too strong.

I don't like those chrome covers that used to be fitted on Fender bridges & the bass pickups. At least the 6 string ones weren't screwed on like the basses. The Rickenbacker guitar one is bad too, but then you have to file the corners off the specially designed hand gouging E saddles when you remove it.

Voxman

JerkMoans said:

HAL9000 said:

Any guitar where the neck needs to come off to adjust the truss rod.

+1 for this. I mean, why?

It's a blessed nuisance, but then my 1969 hardtail strat falls into that category.  

Voxman

Not so much ruined but annoying. Epiphone Sheraton II's (here's my 1988 Samick factory one) - the fret inlays stop at the 15th fret.  Why??!!  It's a real nuisance because, even though I've been playing some 48 years now I can still sometimes get thrown by it & lose my place towards the dusky end of the neck!