Dealbreakers. What are yours?

[Marked Man]

Leave me abalone!!!

 

[Zhysick]

D Neck profile. I don't mind if it is thick, thin, C, U, hard V, soft V... but a D? I cannot. I just don't like D.

And speaking seriously, yeah, I don't like Wizards or Jackson's Speed profile...

 

[Celtic Frosted Flakes]

No go for me:
-Not made in the USA or Japan
-Evertune
-Satin finish
-Single inlay at 12th fret
-Offset inlays
-Headless
-Multiscale
-More than 6 strings
-More than 25.5 inch scale length
-Abalone

 

[jonsick]

Deal breakers for me are direct mount pickups. That is an instant no longer interested spec.

As for bridges, though the Floyd Rose Special is absolute junk, it is compatible with the OFR requiring very minimal modification if any. But if the tremolo is junk and far from standard, then I'll probably think twice.

The other big one is odd wood mix. I have a couple of guitars with maple necks and mahogany bodies and they all sound a bit weird to me. I just don't think they make good bedfellows. Mahogany bodies need to stick with mahogany necks and maple necks with alder/poplar/ash.

 

[STRHelvete]

I just don't like D.

Can't relate

 

[Zhysick]

Can't relate
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But don't worry because I like U 😉

 

[StevenC]

8 strings less than 27" that aren't targeting a high A

RG8s with Gibraltar bridges

25.5" LPs

ESP Horizons-IIs

Jacksons with rosewood fretboards

Soapbar routes on 7+ strings made after 2014

 

[STRHelvete]

8 strings less than 27" that aren't targeting a high A

RG8s with Gibraltar bridges

25.5" LPs

ESP Horizons-IIs

Jacksons with rosewood fretboards

Soapbar routes on 7+ strings made after 2014

Why don't you like Fender scale LPs?

 

[StevenC]

Why don't you like Fender scale LPs?

Because if I'm playing an LP shaped guitar it's because I want to feel like Fripp or Page or Di Meola or whoever, and that extra scale defeats the purpose.

A 27+ baritone type deal is one thing, but there are tonnes of 25.5 scale guitars out there that we don't need to have them be LP shaped. It's blasphemous, like a strat with a neck humbucker or tele with a bridge humbucker. At some point you have to ask yourself what's the point of all this?

 

[SalsaWood]

ESP Horizons-IIs

I'm curious, why?

 

[BornToLooze]

Not having pickup rings.

I mean...I'm into woodworking and understand how much harder it is to have the perfect route for a pickup, but there's something in my brain that says they cheaped out the guitar. Maybe it's a little PTSD from when they thought using this pickup was a good idea


But either give me pickup rings or a Strat style pickguard, other wise....hard pass.

 

[StevenC]

I'm curious, why?

Because Horizon-Is are objectively better in every measurable way

 

[SalsaWood]

@StevenC

A year or two ago I owned the E-II H-FR7 or whatever for about a day and liked the way it sounded a lot, but it had some hard to fix faults so I sent it back. Is it a QC issue in your opinion, or are there physical differences between them? I ask because I think about the one I had quite a bit.

 

[StevenC]

@StevenC

A year or two ago I owned the E-II H-FR7 or whatever for about a day and liked the way it sounded a lot, but it had some hard to fix faults so I sent it back. Is it a QC issue in your opinion, or are there physical differences between them? I ask because I think about the one I had quite a bit.

H-IIs look shit

 

[narad]

H-IIs look shit

Yea, Horizon-Is are superior because HS is superior. Also there's fewer Horizon-Is with bad headstocks.

 

[AuroraTide]

Glossy/sticky necks
Over the top inlays
Overly complicated electronics
Bright finishes
Graphic finishes

 

[profwoot]

Soapbar routes. I'd love to have a 7-string strandberg but they don't want to mess with angled bobbins so all their fixed bridge 7s have soapbar routes and active pickups. I'll probably end up grabbing one with a trem since I can change the fishmans out for passives (assuming I can find one without a lame pastel finish), but I don't love the strandberg trems and they inexplicably put the volume knob too close to the bridge in their trem models. Curse their superior design and poor execution!

 

[Furtive Glance]

That other thread inspired me. Deans.

 

[HeHasTheJazzHands]

Nut widths smaller than 42mm and scale lengths shorter than 24.5"

Signed,
Hulk Hands Gang

Edit: oh and lack of belly cuts. Had to sell a J5 Tele and LTD AS1 because of it.

 

[primitiverebelworld]

It would Almost make sense to open up a poll on this thread 🤗 but Its doable to create similar statistics after reading all replays this far. Would we see an incarnation of the least unwelcome, uncomfortable and universally unlikable guitar of SSO?!... Also, my contribution: A Dealbreaker as phrased in the title, would have to be: when forseeingly perceivable amount of fun and enjoyment from the instrument under the consideration of possible deal falls short, compared to the asking price.