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Headless Club???
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I contacted them directly and was able to score a solid brass one-piece headpiece. It’ll be here this week.
- Apr 18, 2008
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Wow, nice! I love their one-piece headpieces - like they used to make, before all this single-string nonsense.
Was this an old stock item or do they still make them? Status use the individual bridges and I always thought the headpiece was ABM as well.I contacted them directly and was able to score a solid brass one-piece headpiece. It’ll be here this week.
A nice, solid piece of brass!
With the heavy brass bridge, this thing is gonna ring!
If you like those solid headpieces, you might want to know that there's a guy in Ireland (Matt) who makes replacement headpieces for Steinbergers and Hohners, designed as "combined headpieces". These work with double ball end as well as with single ball end strings. [Invalid or Expired Link Removed].
Wow these are awesome!!
Thanks for sharing this.
I just messaged him to see if he makes the five string version as well.
Viele Dank!!
I was literally typing out the same question, so I'll wait for him to get back to you.
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I’m talking with him, no 5’s yet but I’ve offered to provide dimensions from my 5 so he can model it… stay tuned
On a new headless topic....
I've always felt wary about headpieces that use grub screws to clamp directly to a string. Yet I've never heard of one breaking or letting a string go loose in the 40 years I've been taking notice. Is that what everyone else here is seeing?
I've heard a few cases of strings being crushed and not installing (flats I think), but never a failure once a string is tuned to pitch. I've got a few headless projects in the works so my paranoia is creeping up.
I've always felt wary about headpieces that use grub screws to clamp directly to a string. Yet I've never heard of one breaking or letting a string go loose in the 40 years I've been taking notice. Is that what everyone else here is seeing?
I've heard a few cases of strings being crushed and not installing (flats I think), but never a failure once a string is tuned to pitch. I've got a few headless projects in the works so my paranoia is creeping up.
I personally have never had one fail in the 6 or so headless basses that do SB strings I've owned.
- Apr 18, 2008
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Sample size of 2, but no issues for me either. I do always use roundwounds, which might matter.
I have a Washburn Bantam headless bass from 1986. They had a clever headpiece that threads the strings through their own holes to the rear of the “headstock.” The strings are then secured using clamping blocks that work the same way as a Floyd Rose locking nut.
I bought this bass used, and it was missing one of the blocks, so I crudely fashioned one from some aluminum stock, using hand tools.
I bought this bass used, and it was missing one of the blocks, so I crudely fashioned one from some aluminum stock, using hand tools.
Just compared side by side, pretty similar in size
Both are lookers, but y'all know I have a thing for that particular Status model...
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