eli5 What give electric guitar their variety?

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So, my understanding is that the pickup is influenced by the string moving and tells the speaker to make a sound.

So, everything else should be no consequence, besides maybe sophistication of pickup and size of string.

So, why do other things seem to matter? I’m at a loss for a lot of specific examples, but people are always discussing various elements of their guitars and their impact on sound, but I don’t see how anything really impacts sound. Like why all the cutouts, swoops, materials, different saddles and bridges, etc. I’d understand on an acoustic, but on an electric a lot of it seems like it shouldn’t matter.

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It’s a whole lot more dynamic than you think. Feel, appearance, and tone are three different attributes, and they can all affect each other.
Tone is created by body material, shape, tail design, and the pickups.

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