How to protect tips of spiky headstocks from chipping?

Wrap them in bubble wrap and play that way?

 

You're either adding something to it, or changing handling of it i would think. Smallest nerfball with a hole in it and just slide it over the end?

On a serious note, you could paint a colored plastic dip type product on the edges that should be removable. (do test)

 

My coping strategy has been let it chip and live with it.

 

Use it as it was intended - place the head of one of your conquered enemies on it

Slightly more seriously, I think a pointy bass/guitar with protection devices on the points would perhaps be the most un-metal thing ever.

 

that would be the "cure." some of the (great) suggestions above are bandaids (literally).

but what's wrong with being known as "that great player who always has some rubber toy on his headstock!" ?

 

Yeah I would simply put a sock on it for practice/rehearsal. Then take it off for gigs. Don't hit anything during gigs.

 

I've built some super-pointy headstock guitars in the past. I particularly remember several Randy Rhoads polka dot flying V replicas that Mike Lipe and I built. Those headstocks are about as pointy as you can get. I reinforced the points with aluminum. I basically drilled straight into the point and embedded a round aluminum bar that was then filed to the wedge shape of the point. Then that was painted over. It protected the wood tip from getting broken off.

Yeah, it was dangerous. You could definitely stab somebody with it. But you could with the wood tip too. With Heavy Metal power comes responsibility. Be careful where you aim that thing.

 

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Actually, sanding them down and rounding them off as a preventative type of protection would be the most un-metal to the ‘Nth’ power ever.

 

Maybe some scotch magic tape?

 

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I have 20 and 30 year old Jacksons with the tips intact. They aren't barely played case queens either. Its possible to be careful.

 

Make your furniture and walls out of pudding?

 

I had a Carvin 5'er when they made them with the world's longest pointy headstock - all 5 tuners on one side. Whether or not I was careful, I impaled a few folks here and there - that thing was just out there where you're not used to your bass being, and a few bandmates ran into it here and there. Thankfully, though the parents would have cautioned me about it, it never put someone's eye out.

 

My grandmother used to use tennis balls for the feet on her walker, you could try that.

 

If you need more protection upgrade to an oven mitt.

 

Same here.

 

A golf club cover might do the trick. Might also help dampen spurious string vibrations.

 

Yes oven mitt for the win and new best band name bumping soul screw to 2nd