The Headless Appreciation Thread

mavrick102000 said:
I can't tell you how many times I've drooled over the Skervesen offerings. Their materials and finish work is impressive @laxu
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They used to have an extremely good photographer, he/she was named Musza or something like that. I don't know what happened with that but their Instagram photos etc are nowhere near the same level. At least the guitars seem to be.
 
The Floyd Speedloader strings were double bullet, and they were honestly the greatest things on earth. It killed me that they were discontinued.
 
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Linking to a few other Headless related threads:

NGD: Headless Content

I picked this up a little over a week ago but then I was promptly gone for a trip and didn’t have any real time with it till this past weekend. I was looking to take another go at a 7 string again ( a couple certain threads here may or may not had something to do with it). A local shop...
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Mrs stonge was out of town for a couple days so I dug out a few toys to check out... The Strandberg is usually next to my work desk; I 'might' pick it up and run scales etc while waiting on a data load or on a Teams call when i don't need to be on camera (those long department rah-rah calls where everybody is on mute and off-camera unless presenting). The Carvin has the widest/thickest neck of the bunch, and the OG Steinbergers are relatively heavy but sound great (if you like the Steinberger sound that is). The GM4T (butt-guitar as mrs stonge calls it) has a birdseye maple top on a mahogany back with a nice carve around the top edge. Apparently it was a prototype body from Godin just before Gibson started making their own bodies in-house in Tennessee. The Transtrem works well, and it's weird to whammy a chord and have it stay in tune. You can also lock it up in F# or G or drop it down to D, C, or even B (although B tuning is pretty flubby tbh). Pretty neat from an engineering POV.

I'm hoping to grab a Strandberg Essential someday so i have a featherweight hardtail with dual humbuckers available.
 

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stonge said:
Mrs stonge was out of town for a couple days so I dug out a few toys to check out... The Strandberg is usually next to my work desk; I 'might' pick it up and run scales etc while waiting on a data load or on a Teams call when i don't need to be on camera (those long department rah-rah calls where everybody is on mute and off-camera unless presenting). The Carvin has the widest/thickest neck of the bunch, and the OG Steinbergers are relatively heavy but sound great (if you like the Steinberger sound that is). The GM4T (butt-guitar as mrs stonge calls it) has a birdseye maple top on a mahogany back with a nice carve around the top edge. Apparently it was a prototype body from Godin just before Gibson started making their own bodies in-house in Tennessee. The Transtrem works well, and it's weird to whammy a chord and have it stay in tune. You can also lock it up in F# or G or drop it down to D, C, or even B (although B tuning is pretty flubby tbh). Pretty neat from an engineering POV.

I'm hoping to grab a Strandberg Essential someday so i have a featherweight hardtail with dual humbuckers available.
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Great stuff, what spec is the HH 1?
 
Eagle said:
Great stuff, what spec is the HH 1?
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to be honest, i'm not really sure. I picked it up used, and the guy who sold it didn't have the original specs on it. It appears to be an alder top over an alder chambered body with a maple neck and ebony fingerboard, and the finish is satin rather than gloss which is nice. It had a Bare Knuckles Mule in it when i got it and the original Holdsworth M22 and hardware in the case (it also had .007s on it, and I dropped a Duncan JB into it at the first string change after about a week). Had to steal the JB for a Hamer i was going to sell, so I think it's a Dimarzio 36th PAF in there now IIRC.

I also have a Kiesel Holdsworth in black with the white birch top and chambered alder body which was allegedly Allan's preferred spec, but it's been vacationing at my best friend's house for a while so I can't recall how the two compare. One of these days i'll wander down to his place with the blueburst so we can shootout the two of them.
 
stonge said:
to be honest, i'm not really sure. I picked it up used, and the guy who sold it didn't have the original specs on it. It appears to be an alder top over an alder chambered body with a maple neck and ebony fingerboard, and the finish is satin rather than gloss which is nice. It had a Bare Knuckles Mule in it when i got it and the original Holdsworth M22 and hardware in the case (it also had .007s on it, and I dropped a Duncan JB into it at the first string change after about a week). Had to steal the JB for a Hamer i was going to sell, so I think it's a Dimarzio 36th PAF in there now IIRC.

I also have a Kiesel Holdsworth in black with the white birch top and chambered alder body which was allegedly Allan's preferred spec, but it's been vacationing at my best friend's house for a while so I can't recall how the two compare. One of these days i'll wander down to his place with the blueburst so we can shootout the two of them.
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The ones with a chambered body and Steinberger style hardware are going up in value because the one they make now is solid and has Hipshot hardware.
 
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