To contrast my Ugly Headstocks thread, let's see the ones you think are beautiful, cool, unique, favorite, etc.
A few acoustics:
To contrast my Ugly Headstocks thread, let's see the ones you think are beautiful, cool, unique, favorite, etc.
A few acoustics:
Guitar: Gibson SG Standard Natural Burst, Squier CV 50's Tele, Hell Guitars No. 2, Squier CV 50's Strat, Reverend Club King 290, Taylor 522e 12-Fret mahogany,
Squier Vintage Modified Jaguar Bass Short Scale
Amp: Fender Super Champ X2 Head, Egnater Tweaker 15, Fender Mustang I, Acoustic B20 1x12 bass amp
Pedal: Budda Budwah wah, Wampler Ego Compressor, Electro-Harmonix Soul Food, Voodoo Lab Sparkle Drive, Wampler Velvet Fuzz, Seven Sisters Eve Tremolo, TC Electronics Gravy Tri Chorus & Vibrato, Catalinbread Echorec, TC Electronic Alter Ego 2 Delay, Hardwire Supernatural Ambient Verb, MXR Carbon Copy, Catalinbread RAH, Big Muff Pi with Tone Wicker, BYOC Mouse 2.0 Distortion, BYOC Boost/OD-2
Electrics
Tig, the flame in the tele headstock in that Shadco picture is pure beauty. Someone knew how to produce a nice neck there. I have an affinity neck that is close to being equal in quality to that.
Duffy Bolduc
South Williamsport, Pa.
"Now all the things that use to mean so much to me has got me old before my time." G. Allman, "Old Before My Time", Hittin' the Note.
Major changes to guitars and amps, to be updated soon.
Fiance - Supportive of musical art
I do love those Tele headstocks. They just seem...right.
This one ain't too shabby, either-
-Sean
Guitars: Lots.
Amphs: More than last year.
Pedals: Many, although I go straight from guitar to amp more often lately.
Jet Guitars
"No Tele For you." - The Tele Nazi
Ha! Tele-ish now inbound.
Already a strat one up there. Getting used to the tele headstock still, so here is a pretty one I am familiar with:
Also this. Simple, but beautiful in a shaker/craftsman kinda way.
Steve Thompson
Sun Valley, Idaho
Guitars: Fender 60th Anniversary Std. Strat, Squier CVC Tele Hagstrom Viking Semi-hollow, Joshua beach guitar, Martin SPD-16TR Dreadnought
Amphs: Peavey Classic 30, '61 Fender Concert
Effects and such: Boss: DS-1, CE-5, NS-2 and RC20XL looper, Digitech Bad Monkey, Korg AX1G Multi-effects, Berhinger: TU100 tuner, PB100 Clean Boost, Line 6 Toneport UX2, Electro Harmonix Little Big Muff Pi, DuhVoodooMan's Rabid Rodent Rat Clone, Zonkin Yellow Screamer Mk. II, MXR Carbon Copy Delay
love is the answer, at least for most of the questions in my heart. . .
- j. johnson
Damn! Beat me to the Hagstrom one!
Guitars: '06 Les Paul Classic Goldtop, '07 SG classic, '79 ES335TD Blond, '88 Telecaster, '08 Custom Shop Strat 57 NOS, Framus '69 Goucho Acoustic, '72 Framus Caravelle hollow body, '09 Hagstrom Swede, '10 Ibanez AG95 and '69 Heit
Amps: Fender Blues Deluxe Tweed, Marshall JCM 900 50W full stack, Roland Cube 20XL and '69 Checkmate!
Pedals: (all DVM) Tremolo, "Rabid Rodent" distortion, "Zonkin Yellow Screamer" OD/Boost, "Gee Ain't That Swell" volume swell, and "Mega Muff" fuzz
I'll do the honors of this thread's first pointy.
Gotta include this Manzer for its uniqueness
The Sheraton/Sheraton II's 'vine of life' makes this one:
Then there's this brilliant, practical 12-string headstock:
I think the most beautiful aspect of this one is the phrase under the G&L that's integral to the logo:
Not just because she's my forever & always #1, but since it's the first ever Stratocaster that didn't say 'Stratocaster' on it someplace, and there's never been another Fender Stratocaster since with its common nickname as its model name, as the first stock-factory-hot-rodded model after 25 years of no such revolutionary animal that lead to what's dizzyingly if not annoyingly commonplace today, ...I'd say this is a thing of beauty:
^^
AXES: Fender '81 The STRAT, '12 Standard Tele, '78 Musicmaster Bass, '13 CN-240SCE Thinline; Rickenbacker '82 360-12BWB; Epiphone '05 Casino, '08 John Lennon EJ-160E; Guild '70 D-40NT; Ovation '99 Celebrity CS-257; Yamaha '96 FG411CE-12; Washburn '05 M6SW Mando, '08 Oscar Schmidt OU250Bell Uke; Johnson '96 JR-200-SB Squareneck Reso; Hofner '07 Icon B-Bass; Ibanez '12 AR-325. AMPS: Tech 21 Trademark 10; Peavey ValveKing Royal 8; Fender Acoustonic 90, Passport Mini, Mini Tonemaster; Marshall MS-2 Micro Stack; Behringer BX-108 Thunderbird; Tom Scholz Rockman. PEDALS/FX: Boss ME-50; Yamaha EMP100; Stage DE-1; Samson C-Com 16 L.R. Baggs ParaAcoustic D.I; MXR EQ-10.
I guess I'm a headstock conservative. I hate thin or pointy headstocks. It's basically why I didn't even try a Jackson when I got my guitar.
All excellent choices, wingsdad! I have always marveled at the perfect engineering of the Ric 12-string headstock.
That is the best looking Epiphone headstock I've ever seen, too.
I prefer the maple version, groverj3.
With my Charvel, I found that the pointy headstock contributed to some tuning problems due to the angles of the strings. With a locking nut, it's irrelevant. I like it. It's the iconic metal headstock look.
Axen: Jackson DK2M, Fender Deluxe Nashville Telecaster, Reverend Warhawk 390, Taylor 914ce, ESP LTD Surveyor-414
Amphen: Jet City JCA22H and JCA12S cab, Carvin X-60 combo, Acoustic B20
Effecten: "Thesis 96" Overdrive/Boost (aka DVM OD2), Hardwire DL-8 Digital Delay/Looper, DigiTech Polara Reverb, DigiTech EX-7 Expression Factory and CF-7 Chorus Factory, Danelectro CF-1 Cool Cat Fuzz
"I wish Imagine Dragons would be stuck in an Arcade Fire for an entire Vampire Weekend."--Brian Posehn
Yeah? I have removed the locks from two such axes, but I never had any problems with the tuning. In fact, I do think the string angles are much straighter on the Jackson pointy head than, say a Gibson 3+3 one. Like in your photo - the strings go almost straight compared to most 3+3's. And the fact it's tilted back only helps to remove tuning issues of normal flat strat headstocks.
Dee
"When life's a biatch, be a horny dog"
Amps: Marshall JVM 410H w/ Plexi Cap mod, Choke Mod & Negative Feedback Removal mod, 4x12", Behringer GMX110, Amplitube 3/StealthPedal
Half a dozen custom built/bastardized guitars all with EMG's, mostly 85's, Ibanez Artwood acoustic & Yamaha SGR bass, Epiphone Prophecy SG, Vox Wah, Pitchblack tuner plus assorted pedals, rack gear etc. for home studio use.
I may get some disagreement on this, but I think the Flying V has a great headstock:
-Sean
Guitars: Lots.
Amphs: More than last year.
Pedals: Many, although I go straight from guitar to amp more often lately.
Absolutely. I dunno how many variants there are though, but I think the largest/longest one goes a tad overboard. Kinda like the three towards NE in the picture...but those don't look bad in the pic...I think the Epiphone ones were even longer than those on some models, really pointy and long/big. I like the small one to NW best, not the all blunt ones but the still-pointy-but smaller ones. That's the type I wanted for the custom V neck I had made.
Dee
"When life's a biatch, be a horny dog"
Amps: Marshall JVM 410H w/ Plexi Cap mod, Choke Mod & Negative Feedback Removal mod, 4x12", Behringer GMX110, Amplitube 3/StealthPedal
Half a dozen custom built/bastardized guitars all with EMG's, mostly 85's, Ibanez Artwood acoustic & Yamaha SGR bass, Epiphone Prophecy SG, Vox Wah, Pitchblack tuner plus assorted pedals, rack gear etc. for home studio use.