Guitars... what you've got / what you want

not a fan of the big headstock. looks like a weird growth and is unnecessary

no big headstock here alas:
https://i.imgur.com/AcB5872.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/ZnIXZ8r.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/t8DTbkV.jpg

not a fan of the big headstock. looks like a weird growth and is unnecessary

― calstars, Friday, January 13, 2023 9:10 AM

Seconded. I've never seen a big headstock Fender that wouldn't look better with a regular headstock.

Did jazzmaster headstocks ever change size? I thought they always maintained a size somewhere between the og strat abd cbs strat sizes?

yep, went big 1966-1982

I really like the color scheme of the Van Leeuwen Jazzmaster, btw, but along with the embiggened headstock I'm also not a fan of block inlays on, well, all Fenders.

https://reverb.com/item/65090698-mjt-jaguar-2020-ocean-turquoise-60-s-clone-john-frusciante-vibes-leslee-onboard-seymour-duncan-fender-parts-musikraft-neck

Never heard of the Leslee system, like a built in stereo Univibe where it alternates between the neck and bridge pickups while you play.

Amazing! The relic is a little overcooked but man that is a pretty guitar.

“Are these authentic scrapes?”

https://reverb.com/item/64321806-gepettos-guild-metro-jaguar-new-york-guitar?utm_source=rev-ios-app&utm_medium=ios-share&utm_campaign=listing&utm_content=64321806

think I saw that one sticking out of a trash can on st marks place last night

::vomits::

some cities have events where the schoolkids paint an old piano for fundraising

does it come with vomit residue

"what's this stain?"

That is a lot of painstaking workmanship to make a guitar look like steaming garbage

I can imagine ripping your fingers up on those soda cap knobs.

lol

https://reverb.com/item/36188512-the-metrocaster-new-york-stratocaster

wow that seller.. the Back To The Future Mustang…

the license plate in the middle just deeply bothers me, the rest of it is terrible but that puts me over the edge

maybe because nothing says NYC like cars

What I love is the juxtaposition of graffiti art and pictures of boomboxes and shit with The Late Show with David Letterman and ticket stubs from Hamilton and shit.

and shit

i hate license plates used in any kind of "art"

the snl fret is just awful

lol the builder is in Dallas

The Back to the Future guitars should have had built in Plasma Drives.

https://vintageking.com/media/catalog/product/cache/c8660c81d7196df55c33284290821786/g/a/gamechanger-plasma-drive-euro_114918_1.jpg

and it’s a Jazzmaster if anything, find me a single Jag feature.

https://eddiesguitars.com/product/electric/electric-guitar-categories/solid-body-electric-guitars/fender-american-vintage-ii-1966-jazzmaster-3-color-sunburst/

Looks like Fender got the memo about using the wrong headstock on the new AVII Jazzmasters

https://i.imgur.com/JzTKIAn.jpg

What model is this?

I think a B C Rich Mockingbird?

Ah BC rich sounds right. I guess I’ve only seen the later models but the shape is distinctive

definitely a Mockingbird

glad someone knew "looks like an Ibanez Iceman but pointier" was not returning results on Google

https://i.redd.it/sfk2mjco95o01.jpg

A thing I am not going to say out loud: the pointier your guitar is, the less I want to hear your music

But I am certainly thinking it

This is something I think about sometimes: there must be someone somewhere who uses a pointy shredder guitar to make decidedly non-shredder music, right? But it seems to just not ever happen.

Sleigh Bells?

I feel like a trv shredder guitar is a slightly pointier super strat with a Floyd Rose type whammy and a HSS pickup configuration

https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/RG550DY--ibanez-genesis-collection-rg550-desert-sun-yellow

This is something I think about sometimes: there must be someone somewhere who uses a pointy shredder guitar to make decidedly non-shredder music, right? But it seems to just not ever happen

Didn't Rosetta Tharpe play a Flying V? Or Explorer or SG. Maybe I am misremembering. I have a vague memory of someone from that era with a pointy guitar.

She played an SG which seems kinda weird but I think mostly cuz of Iommi and Angus Young

Albert King played a Flying V as did Neil Young for a particularly sleazy period

i believe ilx user albert broccoli also has this jag!

― call all destroyer, Sunday, May 30, 2021 2:01 PM (one year ago)

He did but he traded it for a early 00s 1966 MIJ replica JM in sonic blue. :`(

The pickup sound on the Jaguar was a bit thin/tinny in comparison and he prefers the longer neck when it all came down to it.

It's also frustrating to have a legit 66 JM with big headstock and a 66 replica without (different neckshape too but oh well).

Mary Ford played an SG, she was one of the earlier champions of the model iirc.
https://i.imgur.com/W6LLAIn.jpg

oh yeah albert king, that's who i was trying to think of.

i think the flying v is kind of grandfathered in as being more than a pointy guitar

I saw Jeff Tweedy with a Flying V at a Wilco/Sonic Youth show in maybe 2003, not sure whether that counts

Also i don't think of early U2 as being "shreddy," but very few guitarists are more associated with the Explorer than the Edgester

feel like the V and Explorer are proto pointy

oooh pretty

https://i.imgur.com/pq0rDDf.jpg

oh my

There's a guy in Texas building Marauders - they are relics but they're real pretty

https://www.instagram.com/p/CmM4zSju9ah/

I'm not sure if those big switches on the lower horn would end up getting in the way of strumming through - not accurate to the '60s Marauder prototypes but I think I'd rather just have Jag switches there.

Lonnie Mack was an early adopter of the original Flying V.

Firebird came a few years later but it is one with an auto design, similar variation to Explorer (and later RG) shape.

The weird and totally rare one is the Futura.