Why the 'anti bling' bias guys

gordiji

I like gold hardware over chrome, but prefer chrome over nickel 'cause nickel soon looks pants, old & dull. New guitars are best bought without scratches and dents unless a discount can be agreed. I don't care if new guitars get beat up in use, it's not antique furniture (to me).
The sound of a guitar combined with its playability is the most important. I'd also stick my neck out (cough cough!) and say above 2.5k
you've been had, especially with those  6 or 7k gibbo signiture models. IMHO.

p90fool

It's just tradition. Gold paint and binding on a 1952 Les Paul is undeniably "bling", as is gold hardware on a Custom, but neither is seen as uncool.

It actually has nothing really to do with bling itself. Perfect, 10-top PRS guitars are not cool and never will be, but a battered White Falcon most definitely is.

DaevidJ

Bling for me is flame maple or exotic woods on the body, it is a lot of abolone be it birds or binding... bling is gold hardware or a fancy custom paint job.

I used to be a bit put off PRS but then they released the Mira, Starla and later the S2 line which are closer to what i like in a guitar in terms of looks  

PolarityMan

frankus said:

That game was awesome, I always went for the little green dwarf.

ThePrettyDamned

p90fool;762474" said:

It's just tradition. Gold paint and binding on a 1952 Les Paul is undeniably "bling", as is gold hardware on a Custom, but neither is seen as uncool.



It actually has nothing really to do with bling itself. Perfect, 10-top PRS guitars are not cool and never will be, but a battered White Falcon most definitely is.

This is it.

I like prs guitars a lot, and esp guitars. I'd go as far as to say they're among the best guitars you can buy.

But a strat, even a minty one, is just... Cooler.

Evilmags

Depends who's playing the guitar. Dave Navarro looks cooler with a PRS than Leslie West did with a 59 junior...

ICBM

Evilmags said:

Depends who's playing the guitar. Dave Navarro looks cooler with a PRS than Leslie West did with a 59 junior…

But Leslie West sounded better...

impmann

ICBM;762609" said:

Evilmags said:

Depends who's playing the guitar. Dave Navarro looks cooler with a PRS than Leslie West did with a 59 junior…





But Leslie West sounded better...

Sadly I can only award one wisdom for that...

mellowsun

It's not bias, it's taste. Blue quilted maple with gold hardware is hideous. PRS invented the vomit burst.

littlegreenman

Bling? I have no idea what you mean!

http://mesaboogie.com/media/Amplitudes/2011/April/Almainsm.jpg

xmrchi

I am just as happy with a bling prs or my battered 77 mustang, sound is what I like, but I also love wood, so hugely appreciate quilt and flame tops, I don't care what people play as long as they don't go around trying to make their points on berating bling fact.... Which happens a lot on here,

Neil

Although PRS do some really nice tops and garish tops, it's those bloody birds that ruin it all for me.

Skipped

I suspect it may not be true (the PRS jibe)
Why would a denist not be buying Fender Masterbuilt or Gibson cc?

I suppose that I am a Gibson fanboy. But in all honesty how could i ridicule someone who buys several private stock PRS guitars but not ridicule the guy who has 5 or 6 cc Les Pauls.....and just keeps them pristine in the case. Maybe it is best for me to not ridicule either of them and just let people do what they want.
I am in a strange mood today.
:-S

stonevibe

Neil said:

Although PRS do some really nice tops and garish tops, it's those bloody birds that ruin it all for me.

Ditto

Fucking seagulls on a fretboard...

Why???

ICBM

Neil said:

Although PRS do some really nice tops and garish tops, it's those bloody birds that ruin it all for me.

Me too, although you can at least get almost all the models (the ones you would want if you're not into flashy guitars anyway) without them - the other option is moons, which are really nice. The lower-range models have dots.

I've owned five PRSs and never one with birds.

Gagaryn

Bling is even more wrong on acoustics - my mate has one of these, all kinds of wrong! 

Blacksheep

Evilmags said:

Depends who's playing the guitar. Dave Navarro looks cooler with a PRS than Leslie West did with a 59 junior...

Yeah Leslie must be gutted that he was never able to match the colour of his eye make-up to his guitar's finish

RaymondLin

Gagaryn said:

Bling is even more wrong on acoustics - my mate has one of these, all kinds of wrong! 

That's nothing....the fretboard is bare for a start, there's no bling on the bridge, the bridge pins looks plain and the binding is just plastic.

meltedbuzzbox

ICBM said:

Evilmags said:

Depends who's playing the guitar. Dave Navarro looks cooler with a PRS than Leslie West did with a 59 junior…

But Leslie West sounded better...

http://i1.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/642/666/a1a.jpg

Dave_Mc

ICBM said:

I think you definitely need to blind test it.

Personally I dislike pretty much all blingy things, guitars are no exception. It's not to to with brands or anything.

But whatever you want to play is fine.

How come you got two LOLs for repeating what I said on the first page, and I only got one?

Grrr. )