Headless Club???

[TrustRod]

Thanks for all the grub screw stories, I feel a little better I did notice set screws come with different end shapes and might experiment with that.

McMaster-Carr

 

[foal30]

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 bought my L2 Steinberger in 1990 but only found out last year about this grub screw for normal strings thing.

 

[foal30]

I recently strung the L2 with LaBella double ball end Flats and it’s amazing

Well worth a try. Was a bit of a mission to get some to New Zealand

 

[Snert]

I recently strung the L2 with LaBella double ball end Flats and it’s amazing

I'm about to do the same to the XL2.

 

[bigjames]

Why not.............. You know what i'm about to post.................


RCG super J

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Wow...that thing is awesome. How does it sound and play???

 

[Barticus]

Wow...that thing is awesome. How does it sound and play???

Wow, that post is 13yrs old

 

[Spidey2112]

Wow, that post is 13yrs old...

Better late, than never.

 

[scallster]

I recently strung the L2 with LaBella double ball end Flats and it’s amazing

Well worth a try. Was a bit of a mission to get some to New Zealand

Dragged my old Formentin headless out of retirement last night, has the La Bella flats too, such a joy to play, not sure why its sat for so long.

 

[Snert]

Wow, that post is 13yrs old

People don't look at dates before posting? That's unusual as they always read the entire thread, and use the search engine well, before commenting.

 

[foal30]

Dragged my old Formentin headless out of retirement last night, has the La Bella flats too, such a joy to play, not sure why its sat for so long.

Formentin?

Not heard of them. Pleased you like it

 

[foal30]

People don't look at dates before posting? That's unusual as they always read the entire thread, and use the search engine well, before commenting.

Harsh but accurate.

 

[scallster]

Formentin?

Not heard of them. Pleased you like it

Formentin is a guy named Rob Formentin in Australia who custom made guitars. He made this for me in the late 90's.

 

[foal30]

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Formentin is a guy named Rob Formentin in Australia who custom made guitars. He made this for me in the late 90's.

Excellent

Geraldton WA?

 

[Reedt2000]

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Formentin is a guy named Rob Formentin in Australia who custom made guitars. He made this for me in the late 90's.

That looks cool

Interesting pickup configuration. Give us more details! (And pics )

 

[scallster]

Excellent

Geraldton WA?

Yes thats where I am, Rob is a Perth based luthier, but has since set up a retail music shop and doesnt make guitars anymore.

 

[scallster]

That looks cool

Interesting pickup configuration. Give us more details! (And pics )

It originally had 2 EMG soap bars and an preamp with volume, balance, bass and treble.
I put the MM pickup in later with a push/ pull volume pot that splits the MM to single coil/ humbucking mode. I tend to play mainly with the front pick up in single coil mode, with the ebony fret board it has a thinner sound akin to a P bass, just sounds great.
The body is Maple neck with Walnut stringers and Mahogany wings. The top is an Australian timber called Sheoak

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[Barticus]

I contacted them directly and was able to score a solid brass one-piece headpiece. It’ll be here this week.

And a hunka-chunka-brass shows up this morning!

 

[TrustRod]

Reggie Washington playing a Spirit with Chris Botti

https://www.chrisbotti.com/files/2020/04/HSRLB-WIDE-compressed-scaled.jpg

 

[Barticus]

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

Very good news, based on our initial messages he needed detailed dimensions… so I took apart my 5’er to take a bunch of photos and created a very detailed drawing with measurements from 4 elevations. He’s using that to build a couple of brass 5s for me. I’ll let you know once the first one is complete and hopefully will be able to post a photo of 2.

 

[Snert]

^^ I'm up for one.