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Old 06-29-2014, 04:57 PM
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I like Guild

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Seagull! (Did he just say that out loud???)

Yes, I actually like the Seagull headstock design.

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I'm a sucker for great headstocks. While I love the Collings hair cut headstocks, my vote for best headstocks go to John Slobod of Circa Guitars and Bill Tippin of Tippin Guitars. Their guitars are incredible and the beauty of the headstocks only makes my knees get weaker!

I submit an exhibit for the jury:

That reminds me of this:



(BTW she was a real contender but dissed publicly by witch Christina Aguilera)
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That's a beautiful headstock; he took the century and half old torres shape and made it his own!

My Favorite is Ed Claxton's; clean, simple, and keeps the strings straight.


thats just beautiful
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Same here. That design mates up well with the Slope D body shape. The flare at the bottom makes it work.
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I submit an exhibit for the jury:

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On the count of being incredibly good looking, the jury finds the above headstock guilty and sentence it to collection.

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I see your old gold foil logo and raise you the art of Ablam:


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I like the Bourgeois snakehead headstock. They look great on slope shoulder dreads and even on some of the older OMs.
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This thread has taken on a life of its own, but I was referring to favorite headstock shapes, not logos.
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ive always like the Collings acoustic line of headstocks.
nice sharp and clean lines

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ive always like the Collings acoustic line of headstocks.
nice sharp and clean lines
I wonder where they got the idea for that?

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I wonder where they got the idea for that? ........Mike
silly they got it from Marty himself, and then they took it one step further and made it much nicer and cleaner
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Old 06-29-2014, 10:36 PM
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How, by adding a Martin torch? ......Mike
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Old 06-29-2014, 10:39 PM
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I dont care about the inlay.
I hate inlay, what a waste.
Just the Headstock alone.
looks better then Martins.
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