|
View Poll Results: Can't live without a cutaway? | |||
Yes, I have to have one | 41 | 22.91% | |
No, I don't like them at all | 50 | 27.93% | |
It's optional. If I like the tone I'll get it. | 62 | 34.64% | |
Couldn't care less either way. | 26 | 14.53% | |
Voters: 179. You may not vote on this poll |
|
Thread Tools |
#31
|
||||
|
||||
Same here.
|
#32
|
|||
|
|||
I voted for "could go either way". While I typically base my guitar buying decisions on tone, I do admit to having an aesthetic bias to guitars with no cutaway. On some bodies it just looks weird to me (like dreadnoughts). However, some cutaways are actually pretty gorgeous- like the cutaway on Emerald's new X20. I don't care for bulky "blob" looking cutaways if that makes sense.
|
#33
|
|||
|
|||
If presented with two relatively identical options, I'll always choose the cutaway, since I do capo up frequently (5th to 7th frets) and it makes a number of pieces I play much easier. I recently picked up a Dread with no cutaway because it checked every other box. I'm not sorry about that at all (hey diversity is a good thing ), but it would have been great to score it with a cutaway.
__________________
Breedlove Masterclass Dread - Sitka/Koa Breedlove Masterclass Concert - Sitka/BRW Seagull Artist Deluxe CE Seagull Artist Element Furch G22CR-C Several other exceptional guitars, but these make me smile and keep me inspired! |
#34
|
|||
|
|||
On a guitar like that I would need at least 10 ft. of cutaway.
|
#35
|
|||
|
|||
Chet Atkins didn't call the area where the cutaway gives you acess dusty end of the neck for nuthin.. "The first 6 frets are where all the money is!"
he was a character... I can take it leave it. I wont NOT buy a guitar because it doesn't have one, nor will I not buy a guitar because it DOES have one. wait, I think I just confused myself... (which aint hard to do..) |
#36
|
|||
|
|||
My guitar is a tool I use to play in a duo, and I must have a cutaway.
Of course one of the great advantages of a duo is the opportunity to pair one player's rhythm strumming against a second player providing leads, solos, fills, contras, etc. which I'm mostly responsible for. Because of that I'm playing way up there quite often. Last edited by Twitch; 09-25-2020 at 01:33 PM. |
#37
|
|||
|
|||
I have played "lead acoustic guitar"--you know all those widdly bits up and down the neck. Yet I do not own an acoustic guitar with a cutaway. The first guy who I saw play acoustic would just reach his fingers over the face of the guitar to get up high on the neck, and so when I started playing a few years later, I just did the same.
If I found a guitar I liked at a price that I found amendable, I wouldn't turn it down because it had a cutaway.
__________________
----------------------------------- Creator of The Parlando Project Guitars: 20th Century Seagull S6-12, S6 Folk, Seagull M6; '00 Guild JF30-12, '01 Martin 00-15, '16 Martin 000-17, '07 Parkwood PW510, Epiphone Biscuit resonator, Merlin Dulcimer, and various electric guitars, basses.... |
#38
|
|||
|
|||
I like the look of the cutaway on my Taylor 814ce. But I generally prefer the look of guitars without a cutaway. For example, I think Martin guitars look much better without a cutaway. I have never needed the cutaway either. I don't play past the 12th fret.
__________________
Taylor 814ce Gibson G-00 Epiphone J-200 Heritage Cherry Sweetwater Exclusive Gibson G-45 Studio Martin X1-DE Washburn WP21SNS Taylor 110 Mitchell D120 |
#39
|
||||
|
||||
I could go either way. I don't need a cutaway and don't really like the way they look. But if a guitar clicked for me in all other areas, I'd definitely buy one.
|
#40
|
|||
|
|||
Mandatory and ergonomically satisfying. Though Eric Skye does well without one.
|
#41
|
|||
|
|||
Quote:
I own 4 guitars right now. Two of them are cutless and two with cutaways. I enjoy all of them for what they bring to the table. Unsurprisingly, for me, the ones with cutaways are brighter; but also may have to be because one of them is a GA and the other has offset soundholes
__________________
-2017 Gibson J-45 Standard -2019 Gibson J-15 -2019 Gibson Les Paul Junior -2020 Gibson Les Paul Special -2019 Gibson Les Paul Studio -2021 Fender Aerodyne Special Telecaster -2022 Fender Telecaster 50s (Vintera) -1994 Fender Telecaster Deluxe 70 (Vintera) -Sire V5 5-string |
#42
|
|||
|
|||
I just sold a cutaway and switched to a 000 body. It felt strange at first but I was just noodling and played at the 16th fret and it didn't bother me. I made the adjustment pretty quickly to be honest.
|
#43
|
|||
|
|||
I prefer the look of a cutaway acoustic, which some purists find positively blasphemous. That said, my next guitar will be a spruce top dreadnought without a cutaway because I don't own one now (which some purists find equally blasphemous).
|
#44
|
|||
|
|||
Cutaway preference
functionally , I love cutaways! Visually, there are some guitars that just don't look right to me with it like dreadnoughts or true classical guitars.
|
#45
|
||||
|
||||
Quote:
My experience as a player and as a teacher is if people don't play "up there" they are less likely to appreciate cutaway guitars. I own/play a cutaway, which when I'm playing certain songs, I prefer it because it makes it easier to play clean at the 17th fret. All my electrics are cut-away, and when I'm playing backing guitar, I'm going to be playing up in the range where that range is appreciated. |