Headless anyone?

Yeah, nah. I bought an Amazon one on the cheap that’s actually pretty damn good and fun to have a little guitar to jam around on laying on the couch but for anything else they look super lame. It doesn’t help that everyone that plays them wears it like a bowtie 🤓
 
Holy-diver said:
Yeah, nah. I bought an Amazon one on the cheap that’s actually pretty damn good and fun to have a little guitar to jam around on laying on the couch but for anything else they look super lame. It doesn’t help that everyone that plays them wears it like a bowtie 🤓
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That’s why BabyMetal is awesome

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TheGreatGreen said:
Headless guitars can be fun to have something super compact to play around with on the couch or at your desk or something. I’d buy one for that. The Strandbergs are really fun to play, too. Good ergonomics. And the ones I’ve played sound good too.

BUT on stage they are just about the most dork ass looking things you can put on. I’d rather step on stage with a keytar. It would look cooler.

They also really mess with me. Turns out I’m used to using headstocks as a visual reference for where I am on the neck, so when I play headless, I always think I’m a lot farther down the board than I am. Like I think I’m about to play an octave bar chord on the 7th fret combined with the open string, one string down, but after I look down to orient myself and then hit the note, woops I’m actually on the 9th fret.
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It took me a good while to get over the visual awkwardness while playing mine.

It didn't help that it was the first 7 string I'd owned in 10 years, my first multi-scale, and first guitar without fret markers.
 
I had a steinberger I gigged forever. It was awesome as far as utility goes. It was impervious to temp changes. If you broke a string you could lock the trans trem in place and finish the song with other strings in tune. It also had a pretty cool sound of its own. I will have another at some point.

I now have this strandberg. It’s a made to measure. Bare knuckle pickups. It’s got a really cool fat hollow tele kind of sound. Very unique. Would not pay what they ask for the imports.

I don’t like the look of headless guitars either but I like playing the ones I’ve owned.

 
PhilC said:
I had a steinberger I gigged forever. It was awesome as far as utility goes. It was impervious to temp changes. If you broke a string you could lock the trans trem in place and finish the song with other strings in tune. It also had a pretty cool sound of its own. I will have another at some point.

I now have this strandberg. It’s a made to measure. Bare knuckle pickups. It’s got a really cool fat hollow tele kind of sound. Very unique. Would not pay what they ask for the imports.

I don’t like the look of headless guitars either but I like playing the ones I’ve owned.

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I feel like I’ve seen a Strandberg with a Zelda logo before, did you get this somewhat recently on reverb?

Either way, pretty sweet
 
Maybe I’ll play to the crowd here and post a butt rock improv I did about one year and 50lbs ago lol

 
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