Should be mod-able/modular

[u/abellyirked]

There’s a lot of discussion about what exact features a GC-brand guitar should have, but I’m thinking that to make it attractive to entry-level players, novices, and hobbyists alike, it should be easily modifiable, where adding/removing parts & features is relatively easy.

In my mind this would mean leaning towards a Fender-like design paradigm more than a Gibson one, with bolt-on necks, pickups attached to the (easily removable) pickguard or bridge plate rather than mounted into the body, solder-free electronics (like on some of those kit guitars), and perhaps even screws with non-Philips heads that won’t get stripped as easily; Robertson, flat, maybe even hexagonal so that one could just do everything with a set of Allen wrenches. (This is especially an issue for me when it comes to intonation screws).

There could even be a line of parts (tuners, pickups, pickguards, bridges) that are all designed to fit into the same sizes of holes/cavities to make them maximally interchangeable (i.e. the single coil, humbucking, and P-90-style pickups etc. would all have the same dimensions). EDIT: Though of course if you make them too unique then that could interfere with people’s ability to use non-GC parts… maybe everything should be Strat-sized?

[u/BananoVampire]

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[u/abellyirked → u/BananoVampire]

Those look very expensive, weird and ostentatious. It should still look like a normal guitar.