[Jongpil Yun]

The most metal headstock is made out of the bones of your fallen enemies.

[Durero]

Originally Posted by Jongpil Yun

Anyways, no I won't be using a locking nut, but whatever.

If you want to experiment before committing to your design, and you're concerned about your lowest string feeling too loose with a reverse inline headstock, you could take any inline headstock guitar with the same scale length as your custom design and try stringing both the lowest & highest strings with the same gage & tuning as the lowest string intended on your custom.

If the string with the long distance from nut to tuning machine feels significantly looser than the one with the short distance to tuning machine, then you may want to reconsider your design. However I'd be very surprised if you found this to be the case. Much more likely is that you would be able to confirm to yourself that the difference in feel is so subtle that you'd barely notice it, if at all - and you can windmill to your hearts content!


As Rick pointed out earlier in the thread, this issue is covered in great detail in this other thread: http://www.sevenstring.org/forum/ext...onception.html

[Durero]

Originally Posted by Jongpil Yun

The most metal headstock is made out of the bones of your fallen enemies.

that totally conjured up an image in my mind of your 'enemies' being a hoard of Terminator androids that you single-handedly massacre and use their super-strong titanium alloy 'bones' as a trophy headstock...

[OzzyC]

Originally Posted by mnemonic

yeah, i see the logic behind that. is it really that noticeable tho? i've never really tried two guitars that were teh same accept for the headstock.

i know my dean and strat are both the same scale length with the same string guage, yet on my strat, the strings feel tighter, i've yet to figure that one out.



this i gotta agree with this

i still prefer 3+3 or 4+3 tho, easier to tune without turning the wrong tuner

IF the dean has a floyd, (or other floating trem.) the trem will raise a bit when you bend a note and cause other strings to go out of tune. If this doesn't happen on the strat, that would explain the difference in percived tension.

[Jongpil Yun]

Originally Posted by Durero

that totally conjured up an image in my mind of your 'enemies' being a hoard of Terminator androids that you single-handedly massacre and use their super-strong titanium alloy 'bones' as a trophy headstock...

Guitar World: Now, I notice you've got a new guitar. The headstock in particular catches my eye. You used to use a brass nut, but what's this new headstock made of?

YOU: Terminator.

Guitar World: Huh?

YOU: Terminator. It's made out of Terminator.

[mnemonic]

Originally Posted by OzzyC

IF the dean has a floyd, (or other floating trem.) the trem will raise a bit when you bend a note and cause other strings to go out of tune. If this doesn't happen on the strat, that would explain the difference in percived tension.

nah, deans a hard tail, and i blocked the trem on the strat.

i'm thinking either the dean isn't quite 25.5" scale (it was a 200 dollar guitar, woud'nt suprise me if it was just 25" and labeled as 25.5") or it might be the different fret sizes and fingerboard radius'. strat has smaller frets, and a rounder fingerboard.

[Durero]

Originally Posted by Jongpil Yun

Guitar World: Now, I notice you've got a new guitar. The headstock in particular catches my eye. You used to use a brass nut, but what's this new headstock made of?

YOU: Terminator.

Guitar World: Huh?

YOU: Terminator. It's made out of Terminator.