Non-Fender headstocks that don't look goofy?

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Re: Non-Fender headstocks that don't look goofy?

Post by mjet » Wed Apr 18, 2007 1:33 am

These don't look goofy - just horrid.

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Re: Non-Fender headstocks that don't look goofy?

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Re: Non-Fender headstocks that don't look goofy?

Post by Pumpkin » Wed Apr 18, 2007 3:36 am

mjet260 wrote: These don't look goofy - just horrid.

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Looks like it sez "WANGCASTER" on the HS!

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Re: Non-Fender headstocks that don't look goofy?

Post by mjet » Wed Apr 18, 2007 3:44 am

Pumpkin wrote:

Looks like it sez "WANGCASTER" on the HS!
Or "MingCaster".
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Re: Non-Fender headstocks that don't look goofy?

Post by berlinbetty » Wed Apr 18, 2007 4:28 am

djetz wrote: For 3-a-side headstocks, I like the PRS design. I don't care much for anything else about them, and I hate the lurid vomit-maple they use on bodies, but the headstock design looks good.
  See, there again, I always thought PRS guitars were nice, but their headstocks were too small in porportion to the rest of the guitar.  It's just all about personal preference...
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Re: Non-Fender headstocks that don't look goofy?

Post by serial » Wed Apr 18, 2007 5:13 am

This one is one of my all time favorites.  Sleek, unique and functional.  I like Reverse Firebird headstocks as well, but this one's about my favorite-looks amazing on the few old Hamer Firebirds, Virtuosos and other models it was used on.
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Re: Non-Fender headstocks that don't look goofy?

Post by dc » Wed Apr 18, 2007 7:41 am

mjet260 wrote:
Pumpkin wrote:

Looks like it sez "WANGCASTER" on the HS!
Or "MingCaster".
i think it says "WankCaster."
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Re: Non-Fender headstocks that don't look goofy?

Post by pullover » Wed Apr 18, 2007 1:29 pm

dc wrote:
mjet260 wrote:
Pumpkin wrote:

Looks like it sez "WANGCASTER" on the HS!
Or "MingCaster".
i think it says "WankCaster."
Oh... It's Langcaster! I won't hi-jack this thread by posting any of their abominations but if you go their website you will see for yourself. They actually carve a cobra into one guitar then inlay shells around it! :k
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Re: Non-Fender headstocks that don't look goofy?

Post by chrisjedijane » Wed Apr 18, 2007 3:12 pm

Honestly, I see some of the stuff on their website and I just despair...

aside from anything, those 3 string trees aren't exactly gonna be great for your tuning - all that pressure on the string trees and stuff, it'd be friction-central. And what makes it worse is that you could have put the tuners where the string trees are...
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Re: Non-Fender headstocks that don't look goofy?

Post by StevenO » Wed Apr 18, 2007 3:37 pm

I've always liked the epiphone casino headstock but I can't stand any other epiphone headstock.

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Post by i love sharin foo » Wed Apr 18, 2007 4:27 pm

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Re: Non-Fender headstocks that don't look goofy?

Post by StevenO » Wed Apr 18, 2007 4:54 pm

I knew you were going to post that! :)

As soon as I saw that you posted in this thread, I thought to myself "Here comes the the Bean"

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Re: Non-Fender headstocks that don't look goofy?

Post by Stereordinary » Wed Apr 18, 2007 7:42 pm

Not to toot my own horn or anything...  :P

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Re: Non-Fender headstocks that don't look goofy?

Post by fenderjeff » Thu Apr 19, 2007 2:02 am

i like this one

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it's a Lag (french brand) and the model's named Jet (so, it's a Jet Lag! lol)
it's also an offset!
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Re: Non-Fender headstocks that don't look goofy?

Post by serial » Thu Apr 19, 2007 5:10 am

StevenO wrote: I knew you were going to post that! :)

As soon as I saw that you posted in this thread, I thought to myself "Here comes the the Bean"
How could I have forgotten THOSE??!!
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