Headless Telecaster
A friend of mine asked me to look at a prototype project with a view to setting up the action and an opinion of the concept.
He had described the project on the phone 6-8 weeks ago and I have to say I had trouble imagining the workings of it: however when I saw the beast in the flesh I was more than pleasantly suprised.
The mechanism was very simple and the whole guitar very well balanced and played normally, the only drawback being the adjustment of tunning had to be accessed from the rear of the body. However the player would very soon get used to this, just a case of familiarity with ones guitar.
Firstly one may ask why? The answer being simple - the player giggs in a very small club where space is a premium and at an after gig drink in the local pub the band discussed the possibilities of a headless guitar and through beer hazed waffle the projecft seemed like a good idea at the time and as far as they new there wern't any othermodels commercially available, and so the project was born
Why a Tele? Simple, it was the only spare guitar they had at the time to work on. The same principle could be applied to any solid.
My friend has registered the head (or tail?) design so I haven't shown detail of that or too much detail of the tuner anchoring which I beleive could be improved upon.
Now for the Plug, Phil plays in a local band Called OPEN ROAD, you can click on the name or go to the link on the right for their website for their gig guide and other details.
He had described the project on the phone 6-8 weeks ago and I have to say I had trouble imagining the workings of it: however when I saw the beast in the flesh I was more than pleasantly suprised.
The mechanism was very simple and the whole guitar very well balanced and played normally, the only drawback being the adjustment of tunning had to be accessed from the rear of the body. However the player would very soon get used to this, just a case of familiarity with ones guitar.
Firstly one may ask why? The answer being simple - the player giggs in a very small club where space is a premium and at an after gig drink in the local pub the band discussed the possibilities of a headless guitar and through beer hazed waffle the projecft seemed like a good idea at the time and as far as they new there wern't any othermodels commercially available, and so the project was born
Why a Tele? Simple, it was the only spare guitar they had at the time to work on. The same principle could be applied to any solid.
My friend has registered the head (or tail?) design so I haven't shown detail of that or too much detail of the tuner anchoring which I beleive could be improved upon.
Now for the Plug, Phil plays in a local band Called OPEN ROAD, you can click on the name or go to the link on the right for their website for their gig guide and other details.
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