Fuck a Headstock! Steinberger Space Age Guitar Swagg Appreciation Thread

(I remember a better one from back in the day where the shaft was the neck, but I have a limit to the amount of Google Image searches I can tolerate to find it).

gentlemen, I'm afraid I'll have to ask you to leave if you insist on posting picture of vulgar and non-scientific guitars ITT.

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WYMAN!!!?!? didn't see that one coming.

I knew there was footage of Devo with these but I couldn't find it.
Wyman seems to be winning itt.

Rob Wassermann, where you at?

besides the one I posted?

xp

http://israbox.com/uploads/posts/2008-02/1202992711_earth_run.jpg

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gb_eyTy6qxA/SeukiBcmSOI/AAAAAAAAALQ/khjXFHf-VAA/s400/stepp_dg1_midi_guitar.jpg

xp Gary Moore was apparently really into the idea of the Synth Axe
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=xsKpazeA5L8
(from the 2 minute mark for a few seconds)

Also, if your guitar doesn't have a headstock, why even bother with strings?
http://www.starrlabs.com/

http://www.thereminworld.com/files/Articles/13601/images/sonar-axe2.jpg
http://www.synthtopia.com/images/axesynth.jpg

http://i.pbase.com/g3/35/276735/2/88106500.W3S5WfQ6.jpg

Ahoy there!

that picture's so bad it's caused the hosting server to generate a '403 Forbidden' error.

oh shit Holdsworth's Metal Fatigue is on spotify

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/68/171897841_2c10531d66.jpg

Always thought these looked like Darth Vader's guitar.

Apparently Pat Metheny was a fan.

Ace Frehley
http://web.utanet.at/jentschi/AceFrehley/Instrument1985Aceunmasked.jpg

the bar parallel with the neck was designed to increase stiffness and improve note tracking #guitarnerd

BTW, it's worth reading the specs of Adrian Belew's Parker guitar. Weighs something like 4.5 lbs, tremelo arm can suspend, like, a car and guitar stays in tune.

yeah those parkers seem p cool tbh

anybody played one?

keith rowe!

http://home.att.ne.jp/theta/ny-jazz/keith_sc_03.jpg

<3

Priest used those Roland guitar synths on the underrated synth pop metal classic Turbo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhY9GOhFwN4

actually the guitar synth gets better shine on this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zr6rChjsWgs&feature=relmfu

I have played parkers - in fact i will still say that one of the samples i got was prob the finest electric guitar i have ever put my hands on. that said it was iirc $3800 dealer cost and looked as good as a parker can look, which is to say still pretty terrible.

finest just in terms of how it felt to play, or soundwise?

i just don't understand how makers of a high-quality instrument can insist it also look so fucking stupid

ha i just checked their website, look like they now make models with "an elegantly carved new shape, showcasing a new, more traditional and ergonomically shaped upper horn while retaining the look and feel that is unmistakably Parker."

finest in how it felt - dont actually remember if i plugged it in at all - but the whole thing was one single piece of figured mahogany (like not glued in or with wings, srsly one piece other than the hardware and the fingerboard) and i remember lightly strumming the first chord and feeling the vibration through the entire guitar, like on my belly and into my thumb on the back of the neck. it was crazy.

so the neck and body is all one solid piece? damn....that sounds amazing

i check the website and i couldn't see any that didn't look stupid

man....Adrian Belew AND Vernon Reid as endorsees, you are on a high level of guitar mag swag

so the neck and body is all one solid piece? damn....that sounds amazing

and probably an enormous waste of excess wood? :[

well actually if you look at the weirdo shape, it wouldn't be that bad? you can kinda draw a triangle (thx to the headstock and the weird upper horns etc) that would contain the whole guitar if i am doing this right

like a right triangle actually, which means that with the right planning i think you could get two out of a prethoughtout rectangle of wood without all that much waste maybe?

yeah you would definitely have to do something like that. that's how i did the neck on my OM to get it all one piece w/ the heel. still left w/ a big chunk of mahogany from the middle that i ended up fashioning into a sanding block of some sort iirc?

i wonder about the quality control, getting an instrument grade piece of wood that big!

i have instinctive suspicions of neck-thru designs

#shotsfired @ carvin !!?!

dude i don't know what the fuck anyway! i've played a mexican tele and a beat ass alvarez for 10 years.

March Guitars J-Walker
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v118/turquoisemoleeater/guitars/marchjwalker.png

i have instinctive suspicions of neck-thru designs

― goole, Thursday, August 2, 2012 3:12 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

well there's this, anyway.

Although limited in scope, this study does suggest that correlation between sustain and neck joint type may not be of practical significance.

Lapstick
http://www.lapstick.com/img/lapstick_natural_chrome_rosewood.jpg

Traveller
http://www.mveducation.com/assets/products/44263_l.jpg

the way i play is not really heavy on 'sustain' type playing, and i'm more worried about long-term maintenance and intonation.

interesting study tho!!

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goole i was joking about carvin....but they made a big deal about neck thru body but i think they suck, some mail order company from the 80s

I own one of these basses. It sounds pretty good but is a pain to play.

http://www.eclecticbass.com/minima-sm.jpg

mine is a 4 string though

I don't really mind the Steinberger body shapes. It's the lack of a headstock, the ugly '80s black hardware and stupid floyd rose lookin bridge that make them so fugly IMO. But if you gave them a nice red finish with binding, all chrome hardware, and a bigsby they would look like something Bo Diddley might play.

Parker Flys on the other hand are the worst.

hahahaha a bigsby on a steinberger is the most amazing thought, i'm sure that would make steinberger's head explode in rage

http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h316/weirdling_2006/berger.jpg