“The days of flagship guitars sporting ostentatious tech are long gone”: Why today’s guitars are performing better than ever – not that you’d notice from looking at them

Furch Green Dc-SR SPE Master’s Choice: Outwardly, it looks like a classic contemporary cutaway electro, but Furch acoustically tunes the tops of all its guitars using an undisclosed tech-led process and makes extensive use of robotics for the most precise cutting tasks.

It’s often been said that guitarists are resistant to change in guitar design. I think perhaps that’s overstated, as our 40th Anniversary Reader Survey found that, on the whole, Guitarist readers were fairly open to new advances in gear, with 38 per cent of respondents identifying most with the statement “I love innovation in guitars, amps and effects,” while the largest group – 51 per cent – agreed with the statement “Now and again an innovation grabs my imagination.”

Only 11 per cent of respondents said they had little or no interest in innovation in guitar gear.