Everything you don't like I like somehow. I looked on Maybachs website and I think they should have gone all in and send you the non-cutaway P90 Little Wing. That's different enough to make me really interested.
In my view this is a very nice looking and sounding guitar. I like this old vintagy look (small body shaped like a parlour acoustic guitar) and the semi hollow tone is really stuning.
It's a very successful instrument and the headstock with the dots fits perfectly. I can't understand why you think changing the strings is so complicated and time-consuming. I think you should try it out, it's really easy without tying it up or anything else. Total easy would be happy to show you... With the Little Wing it is at least not an X-fold and million-fold copy of a Les Paul and simply has something of its own. It is true that reinforcement behind the open headstock would have been useful, which would have looked good in the form of a triangle like on acoustic guitars. But it is also a fact that with every LP the angle is so strong that the headstock is even more likely to break in the event of a fall. All in all, the Maybach little Wing is a very good and good-looking model, there are much less beautiful ones. I have the Little Win Arched Top myself and it looks very good.
This guitar sounds just great! That's all that matters at the end. A guitar should always sound great, otherwise it's wasted money. Also if a guitar isn't make you feel happy, than it's the wrong guitar...
Well, at least this Maybach does have 4 knobs and that's exactly what I actually miss on my B&G, which has only two. (The EU should compel a minimal of 3 knobs on e-guitars with 2 pickups ore more!) And yes, restringing this type of headstock will give you a headache.
Who am I to criticise, but I feel Maybach could do more with their experience of building quality LP and Strat models. Innovate beyond where Gihson or Fender dare to go... Build a truly modern LP, belly cut, no heel joint, compound radius neck, better tuners, whatever. I like the LP look, but I'm not interested in vintage if all vintage really means is it hasn't seen improvements in the last 70 years. I think they offer an HSS "Strat" with compound radius now; that's a more interesting direction to me than more plain vintage copies.
Actually I agree with you about the head, but there's nothing wrong with the look of it if it were on an acoustic. In fact, I believe, slotted headstocks put a lesser strain on the neck owing to maybe a lower string angle. There is to my ears a clarity and brightness with the slotted headstock, that is sometimes lacking in clubby old Les Pauls. Once again, it's more noticible on acoustic, but even through the tube, it sounds almost spanky and bucolic. The best sounding Godin electro-acoustics often seemed to be the slotted headstock. It doesn't seem to work on the smaller classic spanish nylon string guitars for some odd reason but on thinner necked steelstringers the slotted headstock sounds better... or at least to my ears. Maybe different scales might make a difference (I mean nut to bridge, not lydian dominant).
I have had "locking barrel" side tuners that do string changes real quick. I had a set in a slot head acoustic I sold on about ten years ago. They worked like the Grover ones but I don't know what make as they had been upgraded. I can't find them online so it's over to you mc manufacturers...
Es ist ein sehr gelungenes Instrument und die Kopfplatte mit den Dots passt absolut. Warum du meinst, dass der Saitenwechsel so kompliziert und aufwändig ist, kann ich nicht nachvollziehen. Ich finde, du solltest es mal ausprobieren, es geht ganz einfach ohne verknoten oder sonst was. Total easy kann dir es gerne zeigen... finde es ein wenig schade, wie du darüber urteilst. Mit der Little Wing ist es zumindest nicht die X fache und millionenfache Kopie eine Les Paul und hat einfach was eigenes. Richtig ist, dass hinter der offenen Kopfplatte eine Verstärkung gut getan hätte, die in form von einem Dreieck wie bei akustik Gitarren sogar gut ausgesehen hätte. Fakt ist aber auch, dass bei jeder LP der Winkel so stark ist, dass da der Kopfplattenbruch noch wahrscheinlicher bei einem Sturz ist. Alles in allem ist die Maybach little Wing ein sehr gutes und auch gutaussehendes Modell, da gibt es wesentlich unschönere. Ich selbst habe die Little Win Arched Top und sie sieht sehr gut aus.
Congratulations on your new guitar, and looking forward to the update string change video. You express excitement about the sounds the guitar generates (and, to my untrained ears, rightfully so), but you say the same about the HB SC550 II for a fraction of the price. The viewers like me who turn to your channel for consumer advice on how to spend our hard-earned money would probably benefit from, and enjoy, a bit more in-depth comparison with less expensive guitars, to see first hand what the price difference actually gets you (beside the looks and the volute-less neck).
Optisch mag ich die Kopfplatte. Dadurch dass die Köpfe der Mechaniken nach hinten gerichtet sind, ist die Gefahr, dass die Kopfplatte bricht noch einmal erhöht. Und das Wechseln der Saiten dauert sicher auch deutlich länger.
