It lives! Headless SG online meme.

DrJazzTap

Not sure if this will come up properly as I'm posting from my phone. But the guitar is real!

ICBM

It looks like an improvement, especially for gigging - it should balance better like that, and there’s no risk of breaking the headstock off.

CasperCaster

Preview of Gibson 2019 model range?

If so, at least they've improved their QC....

Bigsby

Great improvement on the neck dive, but I do have one major concern: Where do you fit the Bigsby? 

AlexC

More Angus Deayton than Angus Young, I feel.

impmann

Bigsby said:

Great improvement on the neck dive, but I do have one major concern: Where do you fit the Bigsby? 

In the bin?

digitalscream

The guy who did that is a mad feckin' genius. Wouldn't be my first choice for improving a Gibson, but...wow.

DrJazzTap

See I would really like a headless SG. I think it's something that Gibson have missed a trick with. 

DrBob

I’m guessing the string grooves are cut pretty deep in the bridge saddles to stop the deflection to the Tuners from pulling them out of the saddles ? 

ICBM

DrBob said:

I’m guessing the string grooves are cut pretty deep in the bridge saddles to stop the deflection to the Tuners from pulling them out of the saddles ? 

They wouldn't need to be much deeper than normal really - just slightly more than half the diameter of the strings.

I've watched the video now...

The head break is really nasty, a very short grain break (badly chosen piece of wood for the neck, not that unusual for Gibson) so re-repairing again it probably wasn't going to work well anyway.

Nice workmanship for the routing too. The piece of the headstock on the back really is a work of mad genius - shame it isn't glued on, it would make it look even more like it was somehow buried in the body.

impmann

I wondered if refitting the tailpiece would improve the splay issues concerning the tuning stability

ICBM

impmann said:

I wondered if refitting the tailpiece would improve the splay issues concerning the tuning stability

Not likely, since it would just add another point of friction.

If the bridge saddle grooves are properly cut and lubricated I think it should actually work OK - at least as well as it does with a Bigsby anyway .

impmann

ICBM said:

impmann said:

I wondered if refitting the tailpiece would improve the splay issues concerning the tuning stability

Not likely, since it would just add another point of friction.

If the bridge saddle grooves are properly cut and lubricated I think it should actually work OK - at least as well as it does with a Bigsby anyway .

Well, in the video he mentions the splay being an issue... and its a lot more extreme than a Bigsby or a Gibson headstock.
But I take your point.

prowla

Has it got the electronic tuners?

prowla

If he was worried about the splay, then he could simply have run the strings through the tailpiece.

Bellycaster

The only kind way to deal with that is to Napalm it.