Headstock Shapes

[The Burpster]

You could do a PRS /Vigier swoopy cut away shape.

[ahpook]

[quote name='Ou7shined' post='973153' date='Sep 30 2010, 08:24 PM']Of course you could end the debate [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Black-Licensed-headless-bass-guitar-bridge-B47-/130436531745?pt=UK_Guitar_Accessories&hash=item1e5e9f8621"]here[/url] [/quote]

Edited September 30, 2010 by ahpook

[Dave Vader]

[quote name='Ou7shined' post='973153' date='Sep 30 2010, 08:24 PM']Of course you could end the debate [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Black-Licensed-headless-bass-guitar-bridge-B47-/130436531745?pt=UK_Guitar_Accessories&hash=item1e5e9f8621"]here[/url] [/quote]

I tried one of them headless things once, spent the whole gig 4 frets higher than I should have been, damn peripheral vision, imagining heads....

I hacked it last night, it is 3+1, looks more like a spade than a stingray. I also discovered that my 5/8" drill bit, is the wrong size for an 18mm ferrule. Cue hours with files, sandpaper, stanley knife clamps and manual fun with smaller drill bits to get the hole to work.
Swear? Me? f**k yeah, loads....
Wish I'd used the 19mm and wrapped some veneer round the ferrule now, would have been a lot quicker...

Will get pics next week, off to Oxford for the weekend straight after work tonight.

[iconic]

don't know what Sketch Martin is 'playing' here, but it must of run into something sharp as it took a right dig out of his headstock...Aria, or some other Matsumoko built bass I'm guessing?

[Ou7shined]

[quote name='iconic' post='973906' date='Oct 1 2010, 01:16 PM']don't know what Sketch Martin is 'playing' here, but it must of run into something sharp as it took a right dig out of his headstock...Aria, or some other Matsumoko built bass I'm guessing?


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Kramer

[SignsOfDelirium_bassist]

Well, too late to suggest it now but you should've gone down the road of the Ibby Black Eagle! Just rout a big swoopy hole in the middle of it!

[TheGreek]

[quote name='Shaggy' post='971841' date='Sep 29 2010, 04:43 PM']Probably the smallest 2+2 headstock I know of (which it's going to have to be) and one of the most attractive is the early Goodfellow shape. You should be able to use the current E & A tuner holes, but with smaller tuners (eg; Schaller M4)[/quote]
....remarkably similar to Veillette Citron....

[Dave Vader]

I love those aluminium Kramer necks, they were fantastic. Sadly if you tried to do that in wood you wood end up with a few shards of broken wood.
Black Eagle would have been cool as well... oh well.