Uncle Fiesta wrote:Is the Florentine cutaway the pointed one? If so I'd like to say this one looks much nicer!
It depends.
On the "big" Gibson archtops (the L5 and the Super 400, and to a lesser extent, the Byrdland), the Venetian (rounded) cutaway looks just right:
However, during the 1960s into the early 1970s, Gibson made all three with Florentine cutaways, and I don't care what anyone says, the pointed look just isn't as classy on those models:
On the other hand, the Florentine has always been used on the smaller-bodied ES-175 and has always looked perfect:
I tend to agree with Dave along the lines that the Epiphone Wildkat may well look better with a Florentine cutaway (it has a Venetian cut), but if it had the alternative style, it would rather resemble an Epiphone Sorrento (which was Gibson's badge-engineered version of the ES-225):
The original Sorrentos were (in my opinion) handicapped by not having neck-binding. But the reissue version from the 1990s was fitted with dog-ear P90s and neck-binding, and was even available with a Vibrotone tailpiece as an option:
Not easy to find, though.
