Most favourite guitar shape

[AndyR]

OK boys and girls - let's get positive :D

No "I don't like..." sentences in here...
No vile abominations posted for effect (unless you actually like it, of course!)...
No dissing someone else's true-love... :lol:

I'd like to hear what everybody does like.

To be honest though, I ain't got a "most favourite guitar shape" really, I love nearly all of them...

... but if pressed, mine would have to be an early 60s strat (has to have a small headstock, and preferably a rosewood board).

[MDV]

thats easy

Superstrats.

[hamfist]

For looks alone, that's easy .... The Jazzmaster !

[_tom_]

Les Pauls are perfection.

[Stevepage]

Carvin's DC shape with rounded sides.

Quite like Explorer's too, though can be a bit cumbersome if your in a small room.

[FELINEGUITARS]

Tough one
I think I have 4
Les paul
Flying V
Ibanez Iceman
Feline Panther - see below

[Antag]

Torn between the Jackson Rhoads & King V - on any given day I might choose one over the other...

Actually, I like most "clean lined" V-derived shapes (i.e. ones without extra gratuitous spikes sticking off at funny angles)

[Roobubba]

It's a bit cr@p to say that it's in my avatar, so I'll stick to previously known shapes (rather than the mish-mash of these that is the Vociferator!). I love the look of superstrats and I also like vipers (improvement on the SG shape IMHO). A few other aspects of different guitars made it into the vociferator, but if I were to go off the shelf again, I think it'd be a viper or superstrat (it's not going to happen, though!).

Roo

[_tom_]

I think I'm close to putting down a deposit on my WezV SG (if he's still able to do it and if I dont run out of money)  :)

[Ratrod]

My favorite shape varies so I'll give my top 4 in random order.

Gretsch 6120
Gretsch Duo Jet
Gibson Explorer
BC Rich Mockingbird

[Philly Q]

Just talking about the basic shapes and totally ignoring features and options, I think all these shapes are just about perfect (there may be an element of having had many years to "get used to" most of them, but I genuinely think the designers got them right first time):

Fender Stratocaster
Fender Telecaster (YES!!)
Gibson Les Paul
Gibson Explorer
Gibson Flying V ('58 style)
BC Rich Mockingbird
PRS Custom
Yamaha SG2000

The Gibson SG comes pretty close, I wouldn't want to actually change it but there's something not quite right about the shape.

[Twinfan]

Quite obviously, mine is the PRS McCarty.  For me, it's perfect.  I wouldn't change a thing, which I why I own several of them in different flavours  :)

[Antag]

The Gibson SG comes pretty close ... but there's something not quite right about the shape.

That's how I feel too & with a middle name of Angus I've always felt I should own one :)

IMHO the Patrick Eggle Tony Iommi signature (& later the ESP Viper) improved the shape...

[JDC]

rhoads V, can sit in the classical position with it and no cut away to get in the way when your widdling up high

[Lord Blakers]

This:

http://www.guitarsite.com/news/electric_guitar/esp_sword_guitar/