Does anyone think square is sexy...?

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Theyre not very attractive.
...But for some reason I can't help but feel like I need to get one because ugly or beat up guitars (we all know there is a difference) always end up being the workhorses :p
 
It sure doesn't do anything for me-it just looks like a cigar box with a couple of coasters on the top. Thats just asking for drinks getting poured into your pickups!!:drunk:
 
That thing is too ugly even to be used as a boat paddle.
 
I have a cigar box guitar that is square but a normal guitar square seems kind of silly.
 
I would think the French would have better taste than to make a giant turd like that.

Did the French annex St. Louis when no one was looking?
 
I'm gonna have to disagree with all of you and say that I really kinda like this guitar. I think that it's way past time that people break away from making the same old things, the same old way. I like that these guys are making square guitars and the only criticism that I've got about this shape is that it should be contoured slightly to avoid bruises to the forearm while playing.

I made a square guitar about a year ago, as my little tribute to Bo Diddley and it played very nicely. When I got around to selling it, it went very quickly. Much more quickly than any of the Tele or Strat-style guitars that I've made. That alone says a whole lot, to me.
 
elbandito said:
...the only criticism that I've got about this shape is that it should be contoured slightly to avoid bruises to the forearm while playing...
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I think the real criticism is that it just looks fugly
 
elbandito said:
I'm gonna have to disagree with all of you and say that I really kinda like this guitar. I think that it's way past time that people break away from making the same old things, the same old way.
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Would you buy one and show up at a gig with it (be honest)...? ;)

It's go nothing to do with people needing to "break away" from the same old thing. It's about natural/"built-in" appeal.
Some things look good square...some don't. Guitars don't and never will, IMO...which is why you don't see too many manufactures trying to buck the natural/"built-in" appeal of certain shapes for certain things.

elbandito said:
I like that these guys are making square guitars and the only criticism that I've got about this shape is that it should be contoured slightly to avoid bruises to the forearm while playing.
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Right...that's the whole point...it's SQUARE...if they contoured it, it wouldn't be square (might even look better). :D
 
miroslav said:
Would you buy one and show up at a gig with it (be honest)...? ;)
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Heck yes, I would! Maybe not to every gig but I'd definitely rock one of these bad boys. And yeah, I guess you're right - If it were contoured, it wouldn't be square anymore and it probably WOULD look better, at that. :)
 
are those speakers? does it have an amp in it too?
 
It's ugly, and I'll bet it's not too comfortable to play either. Les Paul made "the log", basically a 4x4 with pickups and a neck then added two halves of a Gibson archtop to make it look acceptable. So, I would guess a rectangular guitar wouldn't sound too bad...it just looks weird.

If it were painted red and white, I could see Jack White playing that.
 
Ugly.

Bo Diddley's guitar was ugly, too. And by the time I got around to catching his show live, he was just phoning it in. That wouldda pissed me off had I paid for the tickets.
 
My Airscreamer is a box with rounded corners; it is very comfortable to play, more so than my So-Cal.
 
If it's a through neck what's the point of the box.
I heard a couple of electric cigar box guitars last night & they weren't through necks - they were real cigar box jobbies & sounded different & interesting as a result.
 
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