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Headless or headed

rstellar13

rstellar13

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Sep 2, 2012
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Allentown, PA
#1
Long story short, my bass teacher and I are designing my custom bass, and we stopped at a question, Headless or headed, and we listed the benefits of both but I want everyones opinion for this, so either lead me to a good thread of this already, or let the comments flourish!
Gracias
 
#2
rstellar13 said:
Long story short, my bass teacher and I are designing my custom bass, and we stopped at a question, Headless or headed, and we listed the benefits of both but I want everyones opinion for this, so either lead me to a good thread of this already, or let the comments flourish!
Gracias
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If looks of a headless does not bother you there's no reason for a headed bass. I've not found any negative things on headless basses.
 
#5
Headless. While a headless Fender style bass might look funny, the "boat paddle" design is only one of many. Check out the Status line of headless basses. There have also been some crazy pointy headless designs, in the 80s of course. I wish all of my basses were headless, but I'm not going to take a saw to them.

The one complaint I see besides the appearance is that some people slide their hand past the 1st fret into nothingness. I can't wrap my head around that one. They must get pretty excited while playing. OTOH if you like to jump around, you won't be smashing the headstock into anything.
 
#6
NecroticImbecil said:
The one complaint I see besides the appearance is that some people slide their hand past the 1st fret into nothingness. I can't wrap my head around that one. They must get pretty excited while playing.
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You easily get used to it, nothing that you'd miss after a few days. Anyway, exactly for this reason the new NS Design Radius bass is designed to help people overcoming that fear ;)
 
#11
So long as the headless bass has the thing on end of neck to allow yoiu to use any brand of string for basses scale that you like, Is ok to go headless. Otherwise bad idea since sring choices are pretty limited in comparrison. You also have to like the headless basses type of bridge since cant use regular bridges for them.

Eitehr kind is ok. No real preferance here. Only advantage to headless is shorter instrument if thats important. And no neck dive if basses design and materials would otherwise indicate neck dive results.
 

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