I find this to be attractive...
This is a Warmoth trans brown alder bass...
I'm being partially inspired by the look of a Peavey Patriot bass I used to own...
Conservative? Yes...certainly not vibrant or exciting, but it's a look that will make me want to pick a guitar up and play it, and that is my primary consideration for the aesthetic decision making part of buying/building a guitar...
While I did find this initially eye-catching...
...after I spent some time thinking about it I realized that I would eventually get to the point where I would tire of the novelty...
(I should admit here that much of my "blue guitar hate" is hyperbolic...there are many blue guitars I find visually attractive, even stunning, but they're not something I really want to have on hand)
This next build is addressing an issue I have with one of my previous builds...the pickups in this guitar...
DSCF1214 by
jelloman 1965, on Flickr
...are my favorite humbuckers ever...the SD Custom59 sounds amazing clean and even better dirtied up...but the guitar itself is on the heavy side...so I'm going to put the same combination in the new one and put a set of SD Phat Kat P90s in this one...
The final lineup of solid bodies will then be...
Les Paul
Tele
Strat
Hot Rod Strat
P90 guitar
2 7/8 strats
The 2 7/8 scale guitars will serve to fit an aesthetic I've been missing (a Fender Lead2 and Peavey bass I used to have and love the look of) and also have pickup combos I really enjoy the sound of...add on the fact that the 7/8 scale is extremely comfortable for me and the neck profile is damn near perfect and I will have a line up of instruments that I am really happy with and that will make me want to pick one up and play...and in the end THAT is what I care about...