My main reason for introducing the Florentine cutaway, is that I have found that when I am playing diminished chords, d-shaped chords and others, when I get to the neck joint and the wrist is pushed towards the right-hand side of the guitar body, it usually knocks into the cutaway and prevents total fluidity in moving up the neck.

One needs only to play and look at other guitar designs to see and feel that this is common. So rather than break the visual continuity of the guitar's right-hand rising side, by chopping the cutaway short, or angling it very shallow, I have introduced the Florentine cutaway, which does not impair movement up the neck in any way, and is visually very graceful.