Would you buy an expensive guitar even if you didn't like fretboard inlays?

[Gitarooman]

Nope... I'm not your typical guitar player. I like flashy guitars. Could care less about the back look of the guitar though. Not that it really matters overall but if I'm gonna show off my playing, singing and such in front of people. I may as well show off a fancy guitar too. I only buy a guitar if I like the whole look.. Especially the fretboard because most acoustics bodies almost always look like every other acoustic. My wife knows me best.. So she got me this years ago.. Love it!

[Dotneck]

No I would not buy a guitar if I hated the fret board inlays. But I dig the inlays on the 185...I had one for many years.

[Shaneh]

I am really interested The Eastman ac622ce but the inlay looks stupid so I haven’t pulled the trigger

Guilty as charged, your honor. I confess! I do love the gaudy fret inlays. I went down the rabbit hole... and oh my! There are a lot of guitars with fancy frets!

https://reverb.com/item/22850620-200...g-leather-case

What were we talking about how to spend $50K on a guitar?

[Dotneck]

Originally Posted by Shaneh

I am really interested The Eastman ac622ce but the inlay looks stupid so I haven’t pulled the trigger

I can understand that. Most photos of that model that I’ve seen almost seem to hide the fretboard…

Originally Posted by Dotneck

I can understand that. Most photos of that model that I’ve seen almost seem to hide the fretboard…

I think those are beautiful! That whole guitar is pretty beautiful.

[mcduffnw]

Originally Posted by TBman

It would depend on how far outside of my tastes the inlays were.

THIS^^^and how "special" or unique/rare and how great it played and sounded to me.

If it was an expensive but fairly common guitar to find, then no.

If...as noted above...it was rare/unique/special...not easily found or replaced, and I really loved how it looked, outside of the inlays, played and sounded, then yes.


FWIW you could have the fingerboard replaced with one that had the look you wanted...as an option


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Be A Player...Not A Polisher

[Shaneh]

Originally Posted by janinep7

I think those are beautiful! That whole guitar is pretty beautiful.

I think the rest of the guitar is which is why I kind of want one, but the flower design kind of ruins it for me

https://www.eastmanguitars.com/ac622ce

[Dotneck]

Originally Posted by janinep7

I think those are beautiful! That whole guitar is pretty beautiful.

That’s okay. That’s why they make different choices. My favorite it a plain ebony board. No inlays at all.

[phavriluk]

OP: Up to you. What does it matter what a random group of strangers unknown to you thinks?

If OP feels lost without the comfort of a group, then it's early days on that guitar shopping trip.

[Andromeda]

Originally Posted by phavriluk

OP: Up to you. What does it matter what a random group of strangers unknown to you thinks?

If OP feels lost without the comfort of a group, then it's early days on that guitar shopping trip.

That's very harsh.

[Yrksman]

I have several guitars that have inlays I wouldn’t have chosen. But fingerboards face away from me when I’m playing the guitar and I couldn’t care less.

A few years ago I took one of my absolute favourite guitars (and longest owned) over to a friend’s for the first time. He said he absolutely loved the sound but could never own the guitar because “the tuner buttons are too big”. Despite owning the guitar over ten years, I had to tell him I’d never even noticed.

[theghostwriter]

Not a fan of parallelograms on my guitars, but I don't think it would be a deal breaker. Now, if the frets have those woman's body silhouettes like on trucker mud flaps, I'd probably have to pass.

[ewalling]

I think the trouble with AGF is that it just don't have no pizazz in its soul!

[mawmow]

I do not mind about inlays and bling in general, I buy tone.
So, yes I would buy tone whatever the inlays look like.