[WillingWell]

What draws you to a guitar? Playability, look, how many other people have one, sound, etc. or any combination of these things or whatever you can think of.

Personally I think sound and playability are a given, but a really important thing to me is looks. I need a guitar with zazz. It's hard for me to settle on a 7 string or 6 string because there's not a lot of guitars that really grab me with the appearance. Same goes for signature guitars that are really unique. The Ernie Ball Petrucci sig is pretty ambiguous for a signature guitar, it doesn't scream crazy unique and locked to that artists image like some.

So what do you guys look for in a guitar?

[Bigeeboo]

V and Floyd Routed ... everything else I can alter or fix ... so I pretty much only have 2 standards

[TimSE]

Very much looks. playability them tone (cus tone can be upgraded later i.e pickups n shit)
Has to look smexey
Then has to have LOW as it gets action. i used to bo all about the thin necks but prefer thicker ones for playing comfort and if the action is low as it gets i can handle the neck no matter the thickness

I only every look for 7s these days... 6's just look weird now without that extra string haha

[ilyti]

"Style" is an important factor for me. I generally don't click with teles, strats, and superstrats and people say I look weird playing them. I mostly enjoy playing Les Pauls and variations of the les paul shape (SG, LP-DC) and my only 7 is a semi-hollow singlecut guitar. I consider myself very lucky to find that one, because damn near every 7-string on the market is a superstrat. And there's nothing wrong with that, it's just that every shredder on the planet plays one and I like the classic look, feel, and tone that the Les Paul offers. Then we're back to the style-factor.

Occasionally though, I fall over something that is way out of my usual preferences, but I still adore the look of. The Carvin V220 (Marty Friedman used to play one in the Cacophony days) is up very high on my GAS list.

[Vic Rattlehead]

Playability always comes first for me. Some guitars when I play them just feel like crap to me so I'm a little picky about it sometimes.

Sound isn't all too important to me. I certainly admit that some guitars sound better than others but unless its a real cheap peice of shit then I usually don't think of the guitar itself as sounding "bad" more that it just has its own character of sound. A pickup change can usually fix any grip I have about a guitars sound anyway.

Looks is another very important aspect of a guitar for me as well. I'm always going for something as unique as I can. Very few production models out there really appeal to me, I don't want to have just the same old guitar that a bunch of other people have. This is one reason I'm not very into Strats and LP's anymore, because it's very hard to have one that is original. If I am planning on getting any production model I usually also have a plan to customize and make it more my own.

Other than that 24 frets and a floyd is pretty much a must on any guitar I own. Except my 7 is fixed bridge. Thats the only reason its not my main guitar.

[Desecrated]

Playability, functionality and price.

[Sebastian]

Look, price...

[BigM555]

If it doesn't look good I'm not buying it so I guess style and aesthetics first.

After that it's all about quality of the wood and construction. Everything else can be fixed (assuming it's worth it so maybe price comes next )

Then it's down to hardware, tuners, knobs, pickups; all these are easy to change though so assuming I don't think I'm getting soaked for them in the first place I don't mind replacing them.

[TheMissing]

I always look for guitars in my price range, I narrow them down by what I think looks nice (Carved tops, flame/quilt maple are pluses) and then I examine their features, how they play etc...

[canuck brian]

I look for playability, how comfy it is in all positions. Color and look is afterwards unless I'm looking for something specific like a warlock or V....

Mostly everything else can be modified to tastes.