Saturday, May 21, 2011

GJ8: Headstock

This is the GJ8's headstock up close- a simple design, very appealing to say the least.

This is how it is over at the flip-side. The headstock-neck heel there ensures enough bulk to resist the angled profile. Those are non-locking tuners in use, excuse the stains there as this guitar had seen about 3 years' worth of play & storage.

A look from this angle reveals a uniform wood hue extending from the fretboard right up to the headstock face.

4 comments:

Jo @ NoobAxe said...

the bulky neck-headstock is 'voluted neck'.. starting fr 70's most Gibby LP until some of them currently use dat method..

subversion.sg said...

yes bro, trying not to be too technical here, the first time i mentioned 'volute' in this post: http://theguitaraddict.blogspot.com/2009/03/addicts-slight-return.html people e-mailed me to ask what the heck i was talking about :-)

Reuel Tan said...

Hey sub...the fretboard extending to the headstock add to the sustain??

subversion.sg said...

no bro, fretboard not extended, just that efforts were made to match the fretboard colour with the headstock WITHOUT using paint :-) it's a laminate top for the headstock.