Asymmetrical hollow body

[CarlvGent]

Hi there!

This might sound a bit weird, but I am looking for a specific kind of guitar body.
It's a semi hollow body with double cutaway, where one cut is a bit lower than the other.
Examples:

Echopark Esperanto Z


Maton BB1200JH


Eastwood Savannah


For some reason, these guitars are right up my alley, aesthetically speaking.

I have no idea how to search for this type of guitar and I have no examples of it, other than the three I mentioned above. I hope someone knows of some examples of other manufacturers who make this type of body!

Thanks for reading, sorry for the weird request and have a good one!

Carl

To clarify: I'm mostly looking for an ES 335 type guitar that is slightly asymmetrical.

[BigDaddyLoveHandles]

Ibanez's first Pat Metheny sig models, PM100.

[fws6]

There ya go

nothing symmetrical bout this one

[JazzyJim]

You need to search for an offset hollowbody. That will run you from say a Pagelli type shape, which is offset even though it’s a single cutaway, to the more explicit double cutaway styles. Some of my most favourite guitar shapes to look at - tres moderne!

[GNAPPI]

Gibson Vegas

[marcwhy]

I like the shape, too!

Here are a couple (not mine, just pics!):

Koll (in Oregon)



Scero (in Colorado)

[David B]

My Moffa Maryan:



My friend Tom Ollendorff has a double cutaway version:

[Woody Sound]

Any interest in semis?

[Dhango]

Peerless Bird of Prey, I can't remember what Gibson model is based on:

[CarlvGent]

Thanks very much to everyone who wrote a reply! You've been a big help. I think I'll try to find a body shape like this on my next guitar! (When I can afford one!)

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[JazzyJim]

Couple of my favourites, should I ever have the coin...

[Woody Sound]

Peerless Bird of Prey, I can't remember what Gibson model is based on:

Les Paul Signature?

[BigDaddyLoveHandles]

Full hollow or is semi hollow okay? The semis are taking over!

[bananafist]

Two that spring to mind are Fret-King John Etheridge model (semi) and Wout Bosma (Netherlands luthier) Offset archtop model.

[Woody Sound]

Of course Collings is not really double-cutaway, but a very cool shape.

[Dhango]

Les Paul Signature?

Yep, that's the one. It's fully hollow ¿right?

[Ol' Fret]

If you are looking for something 'new', unorthodox, odd, ingenious or disgusting - just have a look at vintage German guitars!

Here a carved Astro 'Futuristic' from their Nuremberg workshop, made in the late 1950s, and offered in the USA:

[marcwhy]

Hmm, I vote "disgusting" on that one!
[and others may love it!]

[Ol' Fret]

Hmm, I vote "disgusting" on that one!
[and others may love it!]

Counter question: would you reject D'Angelico's "Teardrop" guitar?

I'd put the Astro in the "odd" or "showboat in the conventional dress" category - though I've learnt to judge guitars (or people) not one-sidedly, from the visual or marketing side or whatever. Maybe one of the shortcomings of all social media like this forum …

Science says that most people favor a certain symmetry or balance in objects, faces, bodies. However, 100 percent symmetry is suspicious, looks artificial, fake-like. Most guitar players have learnt to suppress their symmetry pursuit in favor of a more functional, though asymmetrical guitar body.

[Dhango]

Fret-King Elise:

[vinlander]

Yep, that's the one. It's fully hollow ¿right?

My dad had a '73 or '74 Goldtop, it is a semi acoustic : there is a block.
It also has low impedance electronics a kind of mongrel between a Les Paul Recording and a 335
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[grahambop]

If you are looking for something 'new', unorthodox, odd, ingenious or disgusting - just have a look at vintage German guitars!

Here a carved Astro 'Futuristic' from their Nuremberg workshop, made in the late 1950s, and offered in the USA:

looks like a guitar with a hard-on.

[Woody Sound]

looks like a guitar with a hard-on.

Or, Gumby.

[Epistrophy]

Two that spring to mind are Fret-King John Etheridge model (semi) and Wout Bosma (Netherlands luthier) Offset archtop model.

Wout Bosma's guitar are great, he is a great luthier and repairman. I tried his asymmetrical models and they played beautifully, although asymmetrical models aren't really my cup of tea. I was in Wout Bosma's workshop in Dordrecht, NL, while I was in a need of a good quality guitar repair to have a fret work to be done to my Johnny Smith from 1966. I am saving up for D'Angelico New Yorker copy that Bosma could make me. I tried one made by him and without a blush, it was the best custom guitar I have ever tried. Not as costly as the vintage D'Angelicos, but the quality is every bit as good.