What is your deal breaker?

[Tosca]

Any guitar I'd be embarrassed for my friends to know I played...

 

[G-Man]

- Reverse headstocks
- Fake reliving
- Baseball bat necks
- Signature models not played by the signature

 

[AP515]

- Over 9.5 Lbs.
- 80's pointy headstocks/reverse headstocks
- Floyd
- Bigsby (mostly because they add to #1, and they don't stay in tune).
- crazy body shapes like the V and explorer. I know they are venerated just not by me.
- (fake) relics but I'd love a vintage that got all that wear honestly.

 

[solacematt]

A floyd. I just can't stand them. Also I find myself conflicted currently because I want a 7-string, but I hate the fact that it has a blade and I can't stand the thing.

 

[ChrisCst22]

Same here with trems. I'm just not into them. I have thought about trying to get into one, but if I play one it just turns me off. But then I get kinda jealous when I see someone use it in a very tasteful way that I could never get out of my stoptails.

 

[andross182]

-Gold hardware
-Floyd
-Non adjusting stoptail

 

[justmund]

Plastic neck binding and/or wide-thin.

 

[G2*]

I wont own a pink guitar.

 

[jimfisher]

- Anything over 7 lbs
- Any kind of trem
- Anything less than 1-11/16 wide fat neck
- Blue or green (pink too)
- Uncovered pickups

Jim

 

[helmi]

JUMBO FRETS!

 

[vchizzle]

-Gold hardware
-Floyd
-Non adjusting stoptail

Ahhh, gold hardware. That's mostly a deal breaker for me. I've bought one though. Second hand. Only because I lusted after the rest of the guitar for forever. I promptly swapped it all out for nickel. Didn't matter really. I wanted different pickups, an adjustable stoptail and locking Kluson's anyway. I had everything but the tuners already anyway so wasn't much $.

Floyd too, though about once every couple years I feel like it might be cool to have 1 guitar Floyded.

 

[Parralax view]

Floyd Rose trems. I have no use for the device, too intricate, too delicate. And Bigsbys, not all but the Bigsbys that incorporate the down tension bar. That little bar removes a vast percentage of the response that you are looking for in a bigsby. That and their clunky look, and manufacturers that mount the wrong Bigsby on the wrong guitar and think we don't notice. The B-5 or B-50 should never be on an archtop or any guitar that has a semi German Carve. The Bigsby is flat, the guitar top is not.....

I do like guitars with trems, Fenders being my favorite, but when you pick up something like a PRS with no trem, it forces you to bring all your technique and tricks to the fore cause you don't have that little sonic crutch.

 

[Goldtop]

My thing is black guitars. Or most dark colors. I just can't do them because the fingerprints and smudges drive me nuts. And it's not really a deal breaker per se, but I like big necks. I've never owned a guitar with a neck big enough to make me think 'this is perfect'.

Goldtop

 

[CVS]

If I can't play it easily, I won't buy it period, no matter how well constructed, how good it looks, or how good it sounds. AMEN

 

[xjbebop]

I refuse to limit myself with preconceived prejudices... way too many wonderful surprises out there.

 

[László]

I refuse to limit myself with preconceived prejudices... way too many wonderful surprises out there.

So you're prejudiced against deal-breakers, then?

I keed, I keed...

 

[S27NJH]

Pointy axes, Gerish colours, emgs and 24 frets. All feels and looks wrong to me. Old fashioned I guess

 

[CantankerousCarl]

Dealbreakers for me are pointy guitars, Bigsbys and any trem I need an Allen wrench to change strings on. And things with LEDs on the fretboard.

Turn-offs are too-flat fretboard radii, too-narrow necks, and artificial relics. And I strongly dislike the switching ergonomics of singlecuts. And artists' signatures too prominently displayed on the headstock.

Damn I'm high maintenance.

 

[G-Man]

I'm going to get crap for this one for sure but here goes. The single cut body just never really floated my boat until recently where I am warming up to the concept of trying one out.

 

[bodia]

Holy crap.... What a bunch of girls. If it sounds great, why would there ever be a "deal breaker"? I don't get it. Try not to be a guitar snob.