The Headless Appreciation Thread

[paisleywookiee]

I think a Dullahan II with improved ergonomics is coming some time next year.

Yeah, they showed the new one in one of their videos. better neck joint, better jack placement.

 

[Devin]

My semi-custom Dark Matter Anomaly (Balaguer)


I love this thing

 

[fetishfrog]

I love headless guitars. I own 2 Kleins and a Klein copy. My first Klein I've owned and played since 1998.

I keep eyeballing the Kiesel Zeus. Very nice. Anyone here own one?

 

[paisleywookiee]

I keep eyeballing the Kiesel Zeus. Very nice. Anyone here own one?

A friend had one for awhile. It was well built, but really heavy.

 

[likitlikeyoulikeit]

I love headless guitars. I own 2 Kleins and a Klein copy. My first Klein I've owned and played since 1998.

I keep eyeballing the Kiesel Zeus. Very nice. Anyone here own one?

@BROCKSTAR has one I believe. Maybe I'm wrong...but I think he does.

 

[fetishfrog]

A friend had one for awhile. It was well built, but really heavy.

I read something similar elsewhere re: the weight.

But there's on on reverb right now under 6lbs.

Do you remember what wood choices your friend made?

 

[paisleywookiee]

I read something similar elsewhere re: the weight.

But there's on on reverb right now under 6lbs.

Do you remember what wood choices your friend made?

It was black limba, so granted not a light wood. But I've had several others pass through the shop, and they were all more than 6 pounds, often 7. And those were alder and ash. None were chambered though. When you take into account most Strandbergs are somewhere in the 4 pound range, that's heavy for a headless.

 

[fetishfrog]

It was black limba, so granted not a light wood. But I've had several others pass through the shop, and they were all more than 6 pounds, often 7. And those were alder and ash. None were chambered though. When you take into account most Strandbergs are somewhere in the 4 pound range, that's heavy for a headless.

My swamp ash Klein is a hair over 6. My redwood Klein is definitely in the 7 range. The weight probably wouldn't be all too different for me. Thanks for the info on them.

Strandbergs are freakin' light.

 

[paisleywookiee]

My swamp ash Klein is a hair over 6. My redwood Klein is definitely in the 7 range. The weight probably wouldn't be all too different for me. Thanks for the info on them.

Strandbergs are freakin' light.

I think a chambered Zeus or Osiris might be the ticket. Probably fall in the 5 pound range.

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KIESEL GUITARS BV6X, VADER BOLT-ON, 6 STRING, HEADLESS TREMOLO BRIDGE, MAGMA ORANGE METALLIC, BLACK HARDWARE, BLACK PICKUP COILS

www.kieselguitars.com

Or bolt-on Vader. This one's light.

 

[BROCKSTAR]

@BROCKSTAR has one I believe. Maybe I'm wrong...but I think he does.

Yes I have a kiesel zeus. I love it. I've had a few actually. 3 in the past few years. The 1st one had a whammy system and I didn't care for it and let it go, so I didn't miss it. I got another a bit later and loved it but like an idiot let it go and I missed it ever since and then finally got one again back in february of this year and this time im holding onto it and my main guitar!

The guitar is in my main profile picture too!

You can see me use it in a lot of videos this year

Brock Davisson

â The story lies deep within the instrumental movements themselves â

www.youtube.com

 

[fetishfrog]

Yes I have a kiesel zeus. I love it. I've had a few actually. 3 in the past few years. The 1st one had a whammy system and I didn't care for it and let it go, so I didn't miss it. I got another a bit later and loved it but like an idiot let it go and I missed it ever since and then finally got one again back in february of this year and this time im holding onto it and my main guitar!

The guitar is in my main profile picture too!

You can see me use it in a lot of videos this year

Brock Davisson

â The story lies deep within the instrumental movements themselves â

www.youtube.com

Was the whammy the hipshot bridge? What didn't you like about it?

Tasty playing in that video. I've always dug your looping stuff too.

 

[Los-D]

Yes I have a kiesel zeus. I love it. I've had a few actually. 3 in the past few years. The 1st one had a whammy system and I didn't care for it and let it go, so I didn't miss it. I got another a bit later and loved it but like an idiot let it go and I missed it ever since and then finally got one again back in february of this year and this time im holding onto it and my main guitar!

The guitar is in my main profile picture too!

You can see me use it in a lot of videos this year

Brock Davisson

â The story lies deep within the instrumental movements themselves â

www.youtube.com

Sounded really good through the Hi Scream

 

[Achilles]

Really nice touch on the new Plini is that they stained the edges of the maple cap to match the Blackwood veneer top.

 

[BROCKSTAR]

Was the whammy the hipshot bridge? What didn't you like about it?

Tasty playing in that video. I've always dug your looping stuff too.

Yeah it just wouldn't stay in tune for me! Then again I never have any luck with whammy systems!

 

[Eagle]

Headless string locks are often at fault for tuning issues. The wide string slots and rotating clamps can easily cause the string not to sit straight and be prone to movement. Also people don’t tighten them enough. You really need to be just short of crushing the string too break.

 

[fetishfrog]

Yeah it just wouldn't stay in tune for me! Then again I never have any luck with whammy systems!

Thanks for the reply.

Getting the whammy to stay in tune is as much art as science, with a sprinkle of voodoo.

When I had a transtrem it worked great, until it didn't. Wear and tear on the parts made stability all but impossible. I was admittedly quite hard on it.

The second best system for tuning I ever used was the original PRS vibrato. That thing was consistent as heck.

 

[Will Onyx]

For all my hemming and hawing over whether I might like or dislike the Strandberg endurneck, I just bought another of the Ibanez Q series guitars….and it’s a signature model to boot!

Just grabbed an ICHI10. It’s like a modern take on the single coil strat sound. The pickups have almost a PAF pro type quality to them with a very open, vowel like midrange. Super articulate, modern and unforgiving.

 

[likitlikeyoulikeit]

For all my hemming and hawing over whether I might like or dislike the Strandberg endurneck, I just bought another of the Ibanez Q series guitars….and it’s a signature model to boot!

Just grabbed an ICHI10. It’s like a modern take on the single coil strat sound. The pickups have almost a PAF pro type quality to them with a very open, vowel like midrange. Super articulate, modern and unforgiving.

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That fretboard is

 

[paisleywookiee]

For all my hemming and hawing over whether I might like or dislike the Strandberg endurneck, I just bought another of the Ibanez Q series guitars….and it’s a signature model to boot!

Just grabbed an ICHI10. It’s like a modern take on the single coil strat sound. The pickups have almost a PAF pro type quality to them with a very open, vowel like midrange. Super articulate, modern and unforgiving.

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One of my buddies has that one. It's smaller than my friggin' PGM Mikro

 

[Will Onyx]

One of my buddies has that one. It's smaller than my friggin' PGM Mikro

Dude… are you trying to rat me out to the “Why the fuck do you people want shit to be small?” thread????