# which of these guitars just look cooler to you? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 21, 2014, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-guitars-just-look-cooler-to-you/681891 "2014-02-21T17:05:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2014, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-guitars-just-look-cooler-to-you/681891/41 "2014-02-22T04:19:28Z")
They’re both beautiful instruments. I honestly don’t want to fight the hypo, but I just can’t make a one to one comparison between them. It really is apples and oranges. ---
**Author:** ![DonLogan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/51bf81/32.png) [@DonLogan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DonLogan)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2014, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-guitars-just-look-cooler-to-you/681891/42 "2014-02-22T12:44:24Z")
The Les Paul sunburst. I bought a knockoff version from a friend 25 years ago for the sole purpose of using it in dressing up as Slash for Halloween that year. Next to possibly a Strat, it’s the most recognizable “guitar hero” model. ---
**Author:** ![Cayuga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@Cayuga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cayuga)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2014, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-guitars-just-look-cooler-to-you/681891/43 "2014-02-22T17:53:47Z")
I don’t play the guitar, and I stopped reading the posts in this thread because I didn’t understand them. How’s that for _tabula rasa_? Anyway, the first one is cooler because the black contrasts nicely with the orange. ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2014, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-guitars-just-look-cooler-to-you/681891/44 "2014-02-22T21:13:04Z")
I play guitar. If that affects how you take my answer, so be it. A. Every day and twice on Sundays. Whenever you’ve got two guitars, and one has a Bigsby; the one with the Bigsby not only looks looks cooler, it objectively _is_ cooler. ---
**Author:** ![Learjeff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/94ad74/32.png) [@Learjeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Learjeff)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2014, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-guitars-just-look-cooler-to-you/681891/45 "2014-02-22T22:54:43Z")
They’re both lovely, though the white pickguard on the Gretsch seems not the most aesthetic choice. It’s not the loveliest archtop. I’m not a Bigsby fan, but I do admit they look cool as hell in a retro way. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2014, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-guitars-just-look-cooler-to-you/681891/46 "2014-02-22T23:00:32Z")
the one with the red around the outside ---
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2014, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-guitars-just-look-cooler-to-you/681891/47 "2014-02-23T00:03:05Z")
The thing about Bisbsys is (speaking as a player) I get tired of retuning a guitar after every song where I use the thing. Or finding a wooden disk to put in the thing to immobilize it. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2014, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-guitars-just-look-cooler-to-you/681891/48 "2014-02-23T00:28:14Z")
> [@Doug\_K](#): > > But I am talking about what looks cooler. It depends on what you’re playing. This. The cutouts (do those have an actual name? Something in my brain is saying they have an actual name, but I can’t place it) would like weird with some genres (rock, frex), but just fine in others (eg: country). The paint job on the second one is pretty as fuck, too. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2014, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-guitars-just-look-cooler-to-you/681891/49 "2014-02-23T00:33:05Z")
There’s a big difference between Brian Setzer cool and Slash cool. But both are cool. ---
**Author:** ![Baal\_Houtham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baal_houtham/32/13604_2.png) [@Baal\_Houtham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baal_Houtham)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2014, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-guitars-just-look-cooler-to-you/681891/50 "2014-02-23T05:09:55Z")
The f-hole would look better except the pick guard looks like an afterthought. It covers one of the effs, which just looks wrong. So the other guy wins. ---
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2014, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-guitars-just-look-cooler-to-you/681891/51 "2014-02-23T05:11:24Z")
> [@Kamino\_Neko](#): > > This. The cutouts (do those have an actual name? Something in my brain is saying they have an actual name, but I can’t place it) would like weird with some genres (rock, frex), but just fine in others (eg: country). I think you’re talking about the “sound holes”, sometimes known on arch top guitars as “f holes”. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2014, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-guitars-just-look-cooler-to-you/681891/52 "2014-02-23T05:17:30Z")
Steve Howe plays one that looks like the first one, so I’ll say that is coolest by far. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2014, 8:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-guitars-just-look-cooler-to-you/681891/53 "2014-02-23T08:36:33Z")
> [@Ranger\_Jeff](#): > > I think you’re talking about the “sound holes”, sometimes known on arch top guitars as “f holes”. Yeah…figures I’d be blanking on something as prosaic as that… ---
**Author:** ![Shakester](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shakester/32/437_2.png) [@Shakester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shakester)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2014, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-guitars-just-look-cooler-to-you/681891/54 "2014-02-23T13:36:16Z")
Gretsch. I play regular gigs, and I use a full hollowbody (Ibanez Artcore AF55) for music that it’s supposedly not meant to be good for. Plenty of guitarists do. “Received wisdom” in the world of guitars is 99.9% bull. ---
**Author:** ![Lionne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Lionne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lionne)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2014, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-guitars-just-look-cooler-to-you/681891/55 "2014-02-23T23:58:45Z")
Never having played three notes in my life…I like A. The colours are more striking. B has a very original feel, but also seems…old, stale. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-guitars-just-look-cooler-to-you/681891.md?page=2)