Works of Art
There are many different styles and shapes of electric guitars. There’s also a few different styles of acoustic guitars. When I started to play in the mid 60′s your color choices were also limited.
These days you can get a guitar in just about any shape imaginable, I’ve seen guitars and bass guitars in a vee shape, and shaped like a star. A guitar that I think has a weird shape is the Gibson Firebird. Gibson produced this guitar to compete with the Fender Telecaster guitar. A guitar that was pretty much made famous by heavy metal bands is the Gibson Explorer.
For me the best style guitars are the ones that have become a standard in the industry. Guitar shapes like the Les Pauls, Telecasters, and Stratocasters have proved themselves to be ergonomically balanced, and the most comfortable.
One thing that has changed dramatically with electric guitars, bass guitars, and acoustic guitars is the color and the finish you can get on them. In my day there was a choice of standard colors like black, red, blue,white, and sunburst. Today you can get the same colors but you can also get those colors in a metallic finish, and different color bursts. You can find guitars in hot pink, purple, green, animal stripes, anything you can think of you can find. Some of the finishes I particularly like today are the ones that show off the wood grain. Woods like quilted maple, and ash, with transparent colors, or different color stains like walnut, along with a high gloss lacquer finish makes them among my favorites.