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Saying that, I do think the Tele, the Strat, the LP are just perfect designs. Aestheticly I absolutely love them.
For my money it would be keep Gibson. No Gibson, no heavy metal. As much as I love fender and the clean tones of Hendrix, and I agree that the QC on fender guitars is far superior. I would just give it to Gibson.
just because you do, doesn't mean you should.
And it has been a massively successful ploy: it has been swallowed hook, line and sinker in the Unites States, and pretty commonly elsewhere in the world too. The exact same ploy has also worked well for a whole range of other companies who never even made old classic guitars but have been somehow able (with varying degrees of success) to pretend that they are what they are not. Examples include National Resophonic (which has no connection at all with the famous pre-war National String Instrument Company) and Washburn (which is nothing at all to do with the original Washburn, which folded up in 1940). There are many others.
Meanwhile there are successful new companies which don't even try to pretend to be old ones (Taylor, PRS, Furch), and successful old companies which are perfectly happy to develop new ideas and move on from the past whenever good new ideas come along. Examples include Maton (which is older than Fender) and Yamaha (which is older than Gibson). Doubtless there are many others in the electric world (about which I know little).
(pic from my fallen off headstock collection )
https://i.imgur.com/rRfmSzH.jpg
But Both......Strats...Tele's Les Pauls,,335 Types..
https://i.imgur.com/IomJGv3.jpg. ;
I tend to modify guitars a bit to make them work for me..
It ends up that Fenders and Gibsons are good templates for modding as many sizes are based around them..
Their copies are now all lawsuit and expensive secondhand buys..
Even with Fender,,I like the Fender Necks with Jumbo Frets..
I like a neck end Truss Rod,,I like a 9.5 Radius..
My taste is limited to what I find works for me..
Often companies copy what I see as the Bad bits of Fender and Gibson too..
People have an obsession with Vintage correct..
The Pickups often end up getting changed in my guitars.
Epiphones can be a good modding platform...
So much of the stuff you can mod with are based around Gibson,,Epiphone and Fender..
I have found the hardware on Squiers getting worse and worse...
I am liking some of the Eastman guitars at the Moment...
These have similar specs to Gibson though,,but with really good build quality..
I find the sweet spot to be the cheapest ,I have an Eastman T386 that is outrageously good..
Better build quality than Gibson.
I sent a more expensive near 2 grand Eastman Les Paul back...
I have owned many Gibsons,,I am not saying that to be trendily alternative,,
or I couldn't quite stretch to one financially...
I'm not rich by the way....
I've tried so many alternatives,,,I found them to have even more problems that the big 2..
Or they just didn't feel good to play...
I find many guitars have very low frets from new etc...
The only trem I can get on with are not locking,,not bigsby etc...
I looked one day and realised,,most of my guitars were Gibsons and Fenders...
It was a long process for that to happen though...
Surely if you're going to lay "blame" lay it at the modern builders that still copy Leo and Les' designs and dont change the original formula.................
Perhaps, and this is the camp I sit in - if it aint broke, dont fix it.
I love how a strat looks, how it feels and the sounds it make. I love the looks of the les paul, how it feels and the sounds it makes, that are different to the strat (and vicky vercky)
I really do not like the look of a lot of newer designed guitars (the new Gordon Smith for example) - thus I'll never try them
just because you do, doesn't mean you should.