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If anyone needs a custom headstock designed for them or their company drop me a line too.Paddle headstock with psychedelic logo Paddle Headstock I can supply the scalable vector illustrations to people who are interested. Please leave any comments and ideas below. That article is now available – 6 new headstock designs. That’s enough for now, I have about another 6 designs drawn up already and 6 new design body styles coming up in future articles. This could be a big fashion thing, just like all those phone charms that are very popular now. Secondly it allows accessories and pendants, dream-catchers(!) etc to be hung from the guitar. Firstly it is a bit like the archetypal harpoon which has a hole in it for some reason (not all harpoon heads but many ancient bone ones). An extra thing I did with this headstock is the piercing! There are several ideas to this, as well as it looking good IMHO. I think this shape of headstock goes very well with several shapes of guitars particularly V shape and the due-a-revial teardrop shape. I wanted it to look a bit like a rocket, spear, bullet, harpoon head! Rocket shapes appeal to my liking of space rock and futurism. '3D' visual of the Guitar Design Reviews headstock v5įinally there is GDR6. I have a special ‘blended’ guitar body design which I might pair ir with at a later date, in a later blog post here. I think this would go great with a Gibson style but slightly offset body. This headstock shape I think of as a bit like a lazy open book style or a Dali melting headstock. I thought it would combine well with a funky Surfcaster style guitar body or another offset waist jazzy style of body. The near side of the “S” would be outlined in paint/ink or mother of pearl, depends on your budget! I really liked the S-Type. Guitar Design Reviews, new headstock designs 4-6 They aren’t so different from each other but both have distinctive and different ‘nose’ profiles. A straight string path is supposed to create less stress on the nut and also promote tuning stability.
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However I was alone in that feeling! GDR2 and GDR3 have straight string paths, which are desirable for some people. GDR1 was designed for a client, whose company name begins with an “S”, this was my idea for an “ S-Type” guitar headstock! I thought it would be a great, memorable, logo/brand identity etc.
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Let’s cut to the action and check out the first three designs… Guitar Design Reviews, new headstock designs 1-3 At that time I promised to design some new original guitar headstock designs that, some of them, possibly could one day be classics!
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Also I made Adobe Illustrator vector drawings of most of them, you can download it over there. I wrote previously, on Design Reviews my other general design site, about the major headstock designs available today on the big brand guitars. The both do the job required of a guitar headstock very well and both have an excellent, handsome profile. It’s obvious those two designs have been around a long time because they fit form and function beautifully. Then there are countless clones of the Gibson open book and Fender Strat 6 on one side headstock designs. Jackson pointy headstock, 1981 made for Randy Rhodes who supplied the idea/sketch of it.the Ibanez almost pointy design, 1978, after being sued by Gibson for copying the open book headstock, necessity is the mother of invention!.the Gibson Flying V lollipop headstock, 1958.I would say these are the top 5 ‘other designs’ And another two of these five are from the 50’s, from Gibson actually. I’ve got 5 new headstock designs for you here! What is it with headstock designs? Since the original Fender Stratocaster and Gibson Les Paul electrics in the early 50s there have been maybe 5 other decent headstock design efforts.