First Female Friendly Guitar?

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solspirit said:
What is so weird?
And what makes you assume that the value of a post is measured by your perspective?
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The threads value TO ME is whatever I deem it to be. Doesn't mean that weird insider jokes and drunken ramblings aren't of value to someone else.
 
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I'm one of those people who prefer to have my guitar hung way too high up to look cool. I find one that's hanging by my knees impossible to play.

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Red_Label said:
What makes this thread weird are your musings and insider jokes. Seems like drunk posting to me.
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I've always likened an insider joke to watching someone beat a horse that you've already shot. The only difference is with the horse nobody pretends to laugh.
 
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And your thinly-veiled misogynistic bull**** has no place here or anywhere else so save it for your stupid Buddies
 
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I have a strange fascination for this body shape, which I really shouldn't like if one judges my other tastes. Yet it has something of a futurist rethinking of the classic Gibson Firebird in it. If there only was a Floyd Rose version…

Regarding the whole female-friendly thing, from what I've understood that was a perspective that came to be after the guitar was first released, and guitar pages started reading too much into an instagram comment St. Vincent made. There might be something to it – it is a relatively slender and light instrument – but it probably wasn't designed as such, beyond that it was designed by a woman who appears to have a very particular aesthetic vision, who probably made it to fit into it.

Apropos nothing, a friend of mine described the stealth black version as something Darth Vader would have played, which must be about the highest endorsement somebody can give a guitar they don't like.
 
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I honestly can’t decide if I like the shape or not. It’s interesting and I’d certainly play it but I probably wouldn’t be willing to shell out a lot of cash for it.

As for the female thing, I don’t see it. There’s nothing particularly feminine-looking about the shape and I kinda doubt that ANY shape is easier or more difficult for one sex to play over the other. As others have said, I think that the fact that it was designed and endorsed by a woman is about the extent of it being a “woman’s guitar,” although that fact alone is probably likely to turn some women onto it and some men off from it.

I admit that I was curious about this gal’s playing and YouTubed a couple of songs...

...meh. Not really my thing.
 
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Chistopher said:
Yeah, my Les Paul needs a cutaway in the back so I don't smash my wee wee everytime I go hard and get deep into a solo that requires movement from the guitar.
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I thought THAT was why everybody always ditched the spring cavity covers on trems?
 
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That's cool that women are getting into designing guitars. It's not something I would play personally but it being designed by a woman wouldn't stop me from playing it if the design really grabbed me. My girlfriend hates the shape lmao.
 
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The Ibanez Iceman seems to want to be the female friendly choice

Just think about it
UjLuVT
 
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Beer$ said:
That's cool that women are getting into designing guitars. It's not something I would play personally but it being designed by a woman wouldn't stop me from playing it if the design really grabbed me. My girlfriend hates the shape lmao.
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Yeah, seriously

I mean it's not exactly designed by but rather built by, but just look at the market premium for signed MJ (Duncan) or AY (Fender CS) pickups... it would suggest that guitarists might well be crude or insensitive in manner sometimes, but definitely not sexist when it comes to voting with their wallets, which ultimately says more
 
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Beer$ said:
That's cool that women are getting into designing guitars. It's not something I would play personally but it being designed by a woman wouldn't stop me from playing it if the design really grabbed me. My girlfriend hates the shape lmao.
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SEVERAL women have said the same! I don't think I like it either. Maybe a novelty on my wall.
 
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Beer$ said:
That's cool that women are getting into designing guitars. It's not something I would play personally but it being designed by a woman wouldn't stop me from playing it if the design really grabbed me. My girlfriend hates the shape lmao.
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texred said:
SEVERAL women have said the same! I don't think I like it either. Maybe a novelty on my wall.
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Just because it was designed by a woman doesn't mean the womans have to like it. Nor does it mean men can't like it.

Personally, I think all this emphasis on it being a woman designed guitar came from Vincent herself rather than Ernie Ball.
 
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Sirion said:
I have a strange fascination for this body shape, which I really shouldn't like if one judges my other tastes. Yet it has something of a futurist rethinking of the classic Gibson Firebird in it. If there only was a Floyd Rose version…

Regarding the whole female-friendly thing, from what I've understood that was a perspective that came to be after the guitar was first released, and guitar pages started reading too much into an instagram comment St. Vincent made. There might be something to it – it is a relatively slender and light instrument – but it probably wasn't designed as such, beyond that it was designed by a woman who appears to have a very particular aesthetic vision, who probably made it to fit into it.

Apropos nothing, a friend of mine described the stealth black version as something Darth Vader would have played, which must be about the highest endorsement somebody can give a guitar they don't like.
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Yes, if someone were to actually watch the video, a ways into it is the interview with St. Vincent. I thought she was quite eloquent in her expression of music in general, and expressing her feelings through designing, which had nothing to do with women. Except she was doomed to be one. Probably accused of drunk designing.
 
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