'New' Fender headstock design

barnstorm

Can't see it being requested by many CS customers…

Tannin

Never mind the headstock, the overall look is pretty much a complete chunderscape.

merlin

Big money saving idea. One neck shall rule them all....

EricTheWeary

I saw that on RJ’s channel. I quite like it although paying CS prices for that guitar, I’m out. 

Moe_Zambeek

That’s basically what my Probett has, although on the Probett it’s done competently and doesn’t look like it was finished by Stevie Wonder.

sev112

I like it, gives you both a strat and tele style in one

richardhomer

Suhr has done something similar as well.

barnstorm

richardhomer said:

Suhr has done something similar as well.

Theirs I quite like in a natural finish. Think it looks better than the standard headstock.

Offset

It's bloody horrible.

Philly_Q

Moe_Zambeek said:

That’s basically what my Probett has, although on the Probett it’s done competently and doesn’t look like it was finished by Stevie Wonder.

I don't suppose Probett could challenge it in any way since he's essentially doing a variation on Fender's shapes, but it's exactly the same idea.

Lebarque

Looks like they've marked up a strat headstock to convert it to a Tele headstock, but not gone through with it.

Lebarque

Nobody's mentioned the elephant in the room: they've replaced a strat neck pup with a Tele neck pup. The worst mod in history!

KKJale

I think the worst mod is that they could have moved the volume control, but didn't. A knurled knob there is going to be a right old hazard. Well, it would be for me.

axisus

I like the guitar in the first post! The headstock a bit meh, but I could live with it I guess.

Lebarque said:

Nobody's mentioned the elephant in the room: they've replaced a strat neck pup with a Tele neck pup. The worst mod in history!

Yeah, I'd swap that out!

inewham

It could be worse if only they hadn't painted the headstock with a spoon

ICBM

I actually like the headstock a lot. Or at least I would if they hadn't put the paint on with a bog brush spoon, as inewham said .

I could do without the braised maple neck, the two-part pickguard and the bad relic job though.

And it would look better with the competition stripe on the other side of the body.

Supportact

The painting on the headstock is really messy - they've gone outside the lines (a basic rule we all remember from our colouring-in days) and it looks like there are blobs of paint here and there. Presumably the person who did this could have painted it well but have done it this way for the impression of a kind of 'faux incompetence', as if it's been done by an amateur because they were bored or whatever.

To me, this puts it in a different category from a 'relic', in that it's not trying to simulate age/wear but the intention of an imaginary owner to amateurishly mod their own guitar. I think by buying and owning this you would be placing yourself in a weird psychological position because you are presenting yourself not as the imagined incompetent modder of the guitar, but as someone who has an aspiration to be that, and has contracted a professional to render a kind of official version of that incompetence. At the same time, it's a premium product made by a professional and as such can never be what it is trying to ape. So what does it mean? 

Or, it's just a headstock on a guitar and we shouldn't overthink it, someone will probably like the look of it after all.

Yorkie

A guitar headstock is one strange place to put a scratch & win. 

guitars4you

barnstorm said:

Can't see it being requested by any CS customers…

Fixed that for you 

Funkfingers

Nothing wrong with a Telecaster neck/Rhythm position pickup PROVIDED that it is the right version.

IMO, an essential element in the Telecaster bridge position pickup sound is the bridge/tailpiece assembly. A fulcrum vibrato bridge and spring cavity detract from that.

pt22

I like the headstock. 

A little creativity is a good thing.