danswon

I haven't finish putting this thing together yet, but: Squier body, Hohner neck, GFS tuners, EYparts full block trem (to be fixed, not used), 500k volume (no tone), 3-way tele pickups selector, series/parallel switch for humbuckers, Kramer 98T & 90R pickups froma  Musicyo Kramer Les Paul copy (pretty nice sounding, supposedly a copy of Gibson 498T & 490R, as the name suggests)

Will string it up with 10s and hope that it rocks!

NUNO BETTENCOURT. Extreme are just so cringe-inducingly awful

Steve Stevens - never really liked any band he was in

Paul Gilbert - Mr. Big are just cheesy

And as for non 80s shredders.....umm........

i agree with this. after playing a few teles recently the 3-barrel bridge seems like an important part of that classic tele sound (as opposed to a 6-saddle bridge like on some modern teles)

i would suggest that vintage-output single-coils are the 2nd big part of the equation

my tele copy has a top-load 3-barrel bridge and it has a gutsy twang that i love

dumb poll. i agree that Metallica were only good in the 80s. 'Girls Girls Girls' is a bad Motley Crue album. all their other 80s albums are better, save for 'Theatre Of Pain', which is shockingly bad

yawn. so bored of hearing about EVH. there is more to the world of rock guitar than just him. Van Halen only released one consistently good album - the first one. and his tone, while good, was not the be-all end-all everyone makes it out to be

Agreed! The Epi headstock has become so recognisable in itself that i can't see it ever changing

How could you possibly know how much time i spend playing the guitar? Why are you wasting your time with these posts? Are you ill?

I couldn't care less what it costs, I can get perfectly good sounds out of my modded cheapies and they look cool. My point is that the Tyler superstrat copies looks so devastatingly bad that i would never be seen dead playing one

On an ELECTRIC GUITAR FORUM we like to talk about many different aspects of the electric guitar, believe it or not. FYI, i spend a hell of a lot more time playing the thing than talking about it

Ha! that is so weird you posted that the exact same second as my above post ^

This thread is making my eyes bleed

Not that i consider myself particularly cool, but i wouldn't play one of those Taylor guitars onstage even if someone gave me one for free

I seem to remember a company selling a guitar that had a "thumbs up" headstock a few years back. Anyone have an idea which one i'm talking about? I think they had ads in Guitar World about 10 years ago

Game over I am afraid. Damn -etawful beat me to the button!

There's lots of wrong with this picture.

Unbelievably bad headstock. Seemingly random take on a strat pickguard which just doesn't work. And what is the point of angling those pickups so slightly?

Plus it's got a light red finish on a flame maple top. I hate everything about this. I'm guessing it retails above a grand

It's not so much ugly, as it is huge and awkward-late 60s Galanti Gran Prix. The rest of it is way cool though! Honorable mention, though personally I like it, Teico/silvertone 4 + 2:

I absolutely love everything about that last guitar.

On a cheap guitar i can forgive it somewhat. But ugly headstocks on those boutique strat copies selling for thousands of dollars? unforgivable

yeah i love the oversized strat headstock. i think it looks good on almost anything

and i don't think you can go far wrong with a simple elegant 3-a-side angled headstock with any body shape - classic Gibson style (not epiphone)

Good headstocks:

You can pay top dollar for a hideous headstock!

i don't even get why companies that manufacture strat-a-likes from cheap to boutique attempt some vaguely stratty headstock. it will always look like a shit version of a fender headstock. just come up with something else that suits the strat body style. even a 3-a-side would like good

i agree they are all bad, apart from the Dean headstock. i actually like the Dean headstock but i feel like i could only play Van Halen-style riffs on a guitar that had that. It suits the explorer body shape pretty well

I know there's a whole lotta love for teles on this board and i love them too but that is not a pretty headstock. then again, i don't think teles are meant to be pretty - they're more of a getting-the-job-done guitar. they look good in their own way

Some guitar manufacturers seem to have no problem with taking a perfectly decent=looking guitar and ruining it all with an ugly headstock

It took me years to warm to the telecaster headstock. I like them now but no one could ever call them pretty

Epi headstocks look clipped

What other headstocks out there do you think ruin the look of an otherwise nice axe?