Headstocks that keep you from liking a guitar.
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JeffB
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Re: Headstocks that keep you from liking a guitar.
I love the Gibson and Fender Strat Headstocks.Love the pointy Jackson and Hockeysticks too...reversed or not. PRS are way cool.
I absolutely hate: Carvin, Heritage and Hamer...makes otherwise fine instruments fuggly as hell to me...also don't care for ESP pointy, most Epi's, Telecasters, Deans (any of 'em), BM, G&L, BC Rich.
I didn't like the headstocks on my Wolfgang or my Epi LP std+...still don't...but you tend to forget 'em after a bit if you've got a good player.
I was looking at the Wayne guitars yesterday and I gotta say thats a pretty ugly headstock too. Alot of the custom manufacturers could use some basic art courses or something...many custom instruments are just bizarre looking.
I love the Gibson and Fender Strat Headstocks.Love the pointy Jackson and Hockeysticks too...reversed or not. PRS are way cool.
I absolutely hate: Carvin, Heritage and Hamer...makes otherwise fine instruments fuggly as hell to me...also don't care for ESP pointy, most Epi's, Telecasters, Deans (any of 'em), BM, G&L, BC Rich.
I didn't like the headstocks on my Wolfgang or my Epi LP std+...still don't...but you tend to forget 'em after a bit if you've got a good player.
I was looking at the Wayne guitars yesterday and I gotta say thats a pretty ugly headstock too. Alot of the custom manufacturers could use some basic art courses or something...many custom instruments are just bizarre looking.
Re: Headstocks that keep you from liking a guitar.
Those are the only two I genuinly think are turd.
I get on with every other headstock I can think of atm, I think that BC Rich one completely suits the axe, as well as the Dimebag/Dean V headstock...
But those two "strat type" abominations have to go
Those are the only two I genuinly think are turd.
I get on with every other headstock I can think of atm, I think that BC Rich one completely suits the axe, as well as the Dimebag/Dean V headstock...
But those two "strat type" abominations have to go
Guitar Toad
Toadily Stratologist
Re: Headstocks that keep you from liking a guitar.
I would have bought a jackson but the new ones above $300 all had skulls and shark fins. I liked the headstock, It was not the neadstock but the rest of the Jackson design scheme. But, growing up in the 80's I liked the Jackson sound.
So, I ended up buying a really plain, yet really cool oly white JV strat.
Now I want a strat with a reverse headstock. It think it looks so cool.
ooops. I think this post was off topic. :smack:
I would have bought a jackson but the new ones above $300 all had skulls and shark fins. I liked the headstock, It was not the neadstock but the rest of the Jackson design scheme. But, growing up in the 80's I liked the Jackson sound.
So, I ended up buying a really plain, yet really cool oly white JV strat.
Now I want a strat with a reverse headstock. It think it looks so cool.
ooops. I think this post was off topic. :smack:
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Zerberus
Baron Von Shred
Re: Headstocks that keep you from liking a guitar.
Ah..yea, those ´stocks suck...those are said (discontinued) imports... The PC-1 still sports the same one, though :laugh2:
But Yeah, the James Tyler stock is , uagh.... then there´s the Lindert "Thumbs Up" one, yikes....
I actually prefer the Wayne "Genie Shoe" (the first one I ever saw wasa reverse) to those.... and considering what I just called that "Buzzard Beak" (or whatever it´s really called)....
But for the most part it depends on the axe more than anything.... A reverse Strathead Rhoads for example is hilarious and almost worth buying for comic value alone...
Others again only look cool WITH a funky headstock...
But for the most part: Pointy guitar = Pointy Head , "Rounder" guitar = rounder Head.... Strats being the only ones IMO that can wear almost anything and still look decent
Gearjoneser said:Probably this one.....you either love it, or hate it. It's just funny to see tha ways that companies get around the Fender patent.
Ah..yea, those ´stocks suck...those are said (discontinued) imports... The PC-1 still sports the same one, though :laugh2:
But Yeah, the James Tyler stock is , uagh.... then there´s the Lindert "Thumbs Up" one, yikes....
I actually prefer the Wayne "Genie Shoe" (the first one I ever saw wasa reverse) to those.... and considering what I just called that "Buzzard Beak" (or whatever it´s really called)....
But for the most part it depends on the axe more than anything.... A reverse Strathead Rhoads for example is hilarious and almost worth buying for comic value alone...
Others again only look cool WITH a funky headstock...
But for the most part: Pointy guitar = Pointy Head , "Rounder" guitar = rounder Head.... Strats being the only ones IMO that can wear almost anything and still look decent
TattooedCarrot
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Re: Headstocks that keep you from liking a guitar.
I hate Hamer and Heritage headstocks, so much so that I won't buy their guitars based on that. I also hate Epiphone headstocks on their solid bodies, I don't mind them on semi-hollows/hollows.
I hate Hamer and Heritage headstocks, so much so that I won't buy their guitars based on that. I also hate Epiphone headstocks on their solid bodies, I don't mind them on semi-hollows/hollows.
Hot _Grits
Buttery Toneologist
Re: Headstocks that keep you from liking a guitar.
I really don't like that dean headstock. Just looks like a cheap, bastardised PRS ripoff. Now, most headstocks are variations on a theme, but that one annoys me more than most.
My fave headstock: Tom Anderson. Even over fender. I think this preference goes back to loving the fender-style headstock used by Kramer on it's classic and Elliot Easton models (Tom Anderson designed the EE and built EE's personal 'kramers'). much of this has to do with seeing EVH use this type of neck on his Frankenstein around the 1982-3 period.
Other stocks I like: PRS, fender, gibson, suhr, EBMM, Yamaha. I like Tyler, though can totally understand why others don't. I like the Epi headstock, but only on more ornate models like the Sheraton.
I also like Kramer and Jackson hockeystick/pointy stocks, but only on appropriate guitars, and pretty much as a nostalgia thing. Though I would love to get a nice shredder strat to play onstage one day for a laugh, even though I play funk/afrobeat and my soloing style is pretty much blues-based.
I don't like: Most of ESP's designs, G&L (though I could live with it), non-stratoid Shecter stuff, Heritage, hamer, most ibanez, Peavey, most Dean, BCRich, pre-buyout Charvel.
Thing is, it's amazing what you can get used to. I won't rule out owning anything simply on headstock shape.
Jeff_H said:I like traditional headstocks more than anything, but how can you think this is ugly? It's not pointy, it's not a huge "V", it's a PRS type shape with a dip in the middle. The ends are slightly more sharp, but not obtrusive. I thought it was a nice, original yet classy design. It's not the best pic...
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I really don't like that dean headstock. Just looks like a cheap, bastardised PRS ripoff. Now, most headstocks are variations on a theme, but that one annoys me more than most.
My fave headstock: Tom Anderson. Even over fender. I think this preference goes back to loving the fender-style headstock used by Kramer on it's classic and Elliot Easton models (Tom Anderson designed the EE and built EE's personal 'kramers'). much of this has to do with seeing EVH use this type of neck on his Frankenstein around the 1982-3 period.
Other stocks I like: PRS, fender, gibson, suhr, EBMM, Yamaha. I like Tyler, though can totally understand why others don't. I like the Epi headstock, but only on more ornate models like the Sheraton.
I also like Kramer and Jackson hockeystick/pointy stocks, but only on appropriate guitars, and pretty much as a nostalgia thing. Though I would love to get a nice shredder strat to play onstage one day for a laugh, even though I play funk/afrobeat and my soloing style is pretty much blues-based.
I don't like: Most of ESP's designs, G&L (though I could live with it), non-stratoid Shecter stuff, Heritage, hamer, most ibanez, Peavey, most Dean, BCRich, pre-buyout Charvel.
Thing is, it's amazing what you can get used to. I won't rule out owning anything simply on headstock shape.
Gearjoneser
Gear Ho
Re: Headstocks that keep you from liking a guitar.
+10 on the Tyler. I've picked up a few of those guitars, and they're absolutely great strat copies, but I can't EVER forgive James Tyler for that heinous headstock and his psychedelic vomit finish. Somebody should get a court injunction to stop him from those two design blunders! Hahahaha
+10 on the Tyler. I've picked up a few of those guitars, and they're absolutely great strat copies, but I can't EVER forgive James Tyler for that heinous headstock and his psychedelic vomit finish. Somebody should get a court injunction to stop him from those two design blunders! Hahahaha
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