Members PancakeBunny Posted March 13, 2010 Members Share Posted March 13, 2010 Or... very high quality guitars whose headstocks make them appear to be some sort of wacky cheap Chinese import. First we have... Some might disagree with me on this one... but I find Suhr headstocks to be pretty fugly. They make beautiful wonderful guitars but damn. Still, far from being the worst offender I can think of. This pains me to say because Terry is an unbelievably nice guy and his guitars are A+++++++ when it comes to looks and quality but... McInturff headstocks make me sad. They look like Soloway headstocks after being stretched on a rack. Let me clear my palette by posting what I think is a really nice headstock design on a smaller builder guitar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Members chqtarzan Posted March 13, 2010 Members Share Posted March 13, 2010 since OP put suhr on, i think this would be appropriate: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members PancakeBunny Posted March 13, 2010 Author Members Share Posted March 13, 2010 Not sure I really consider Xavier guitars to have great aesthetics but to each their own! Wasn't really sure how to set this guitar apart from any other fugly headstock thread I guess! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members chqtarzan Posted March 13, 2010 Members Share Posted March 13, 2010 Not sure I really consider Xavier guitars to have great aesthetics but to each their own! Wasn't really sure how to set this guitar apart from any other fugly headstock thread I guess! I got you! how about this: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members StompBoxLover Posted March 13, 2010 Members Share Posted March 13, 2010 indeed. The reason I didn't buy a Xaviere yet, and I was REALLY tempted by the XV500 Lemon Drop. also on my list of fugly headstocks: edit: looks like the Gibson and the Dean would fit into each other... [/pointless] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members EJD Posted March 13, 2010 Members Share Posted March 13, 2010 I absolutely hate that It just reeks "cheap copy". I've heard praise for that brand on here, so I'm not actually going to call them cheap (I've never played one, so I can't comment), but that headstock just makes it look so cheap to me. Perhaps it was a bad experience I had. I bought a Shine guitar, a white Strat copy, and it was absolutely awful in every possible way. Went right back to the store the next day. And it had that same headstock... so whenever I see a guitar with that headstock shape, memories of cheap-ass copies with awful build quality come running back Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Spike Li Posted March 13, 2010 Members Share Posted March 13, 2010 I suppose its arguable if the headstock ruins the aesthetics or if the body ruins them (I like it but the headstock is an abomination): Naturally the reverse V Dean thing is horrible, especially on this: Never liked the Heritage headstock, or the hamer one which is pretty similar: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Annoying Twit Posted March 13, 2010 Members Share Posted March 13, 2010 I really like the Collings headstock. Here in the UK there's a particular headstock shape that turns up on a lot of cheap LPs. I presume that it's the standard shape for one of the Chinese factories, and they slap different brand names on it. Here's an example HasGuitar LP. Sort of like an open book headstock where they haven't cut out the "spine". I can't remember which brand, but there was some midrange to higher end LP which had the same headstock. While there's nothing particularly wrong with the headstock shape, it's associated in my head with cheapness. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Spike Li Posted March 13, 2010 Members Share Posted March 13, 2010 Also, the telecaster headstock is ugly: It should have the same one as the strat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Spike Li Posted March 13, 2010 Members Share Posted March 13, 2010 Strange, I think the Flying V headstock is quite a good one, and well suited to its body... each to their own I guess Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members StompBoxLover Posted March 13, 2010 Members Share Posted March 13, 2010 Strange, I think the Flying V headstock is quite a good one, and well suited to its body... each to their own I guess I guess - I really like the Tele headstock The overall style of the Flying V headstock is bearable, but the dimensions are off completely... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members PancakeBunny Posted March 13, 2010 Author Members Share Posted March 13, 2010 The guitars that look like shit with or without the fugly headstock don't really belong in this thread though. I don't so much mean it as a "post fugly headstocks" thread so much as I meant it as a butter face thread for guitars instead of people. Pretty from the neck down. Heritage is a great example and so is Hamer. The Heritage I used to have was such a beautiful guitar and the headstock almost ruins it! Dean is not and neither is that abomination of a Gibson! Blech! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Members Spike Li Posted March 13, 2010 Members Share Posted March 13, 2010 I guess - I really like the Tele headstock The overall style of the Flying V headstock is bearable, but the dimensions are off completely... Seems like the modern V headstock is an improvement: 1979 Gibson V Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Bizze Posted March 13, 2010 Members Share Posted March 13, 2010 Any Dean.. Really.. And any most BCriches.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Spike Li Posted March 13, 2010 Members Share Posted March 13, 2010 The guitars that look like shit with or without the fugly headstock don't really belong in this thread though. I don't so much mean it as a "post fugly headstocks" thread so much as I meant it as a butter face thread for guitars instead of people. Pretty from the neck down. Heritage is a great example and so is Hamer. The Heritage I used to have was such a beautiful guitar and the headstock almost ruins it! Dean is not and neither is that abomination of a Gibson! Blech! Well their headstocks ruin it for me anyway Oh and I suppose this one doesnt count either? (Zachary guitar Moderne copy. He uses that godawful headstock for a lot of, if not all of his stuff) And now I think Ill leave this thread alone for a while Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members EJD Posted March 13, 2010 Members Share Posted March 13, 2010 Strange, I think the Flying V headstock is quite a good one, and well suited to its body... each to their own I guess +1. It would looks weird with a standard Gibson/Epi headstock. Can you imagine a V with one of those horrible Epi headstocks? No, no no... Also, fucking agreed on Dean. If I were a tree, and was any kind of wood that is used for guitars, I would be scared shitless about becoming a Dean. I'd rather be a nice Fender Strat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members AxAxSxS Posted March 13, 2010 Members Share Posted March 13, 2010 I love the dean headstock. Makes the guitars look larger than life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members kujozilla Posted March 13, 2010 Members Share Posted March 13, 2010 BC Rich Widow Headstock. Not all BC Rich's bodies are ugly but that headstock can sure as hell ruin a pretty one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members smorgdonkey Posted March 13, 2010 Members Share Posted March 13, 2010 I'm not with the opinion of Suhr-that's one of the nice ones...of course, it did look better the first time I saw them (early '80s) when they said 'Kramer' on them... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Members Hurtzher Posted March 13, 2010 Members Share Posted March 13, 2010 Well their headstocks ruin it for me anyway Oh and I suppose this one doesnt count either? (Zachary guitar Moderne copy. He uses that godawful headstock for a lot of, if not all of his stuff) And now I think Ill leave this thread alone for a while GAH! You beat me to it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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