Hey Hunter. You keep saying you have little to no experience with headless guitars. Weren't you deeply involved in the development of the Harley Benton Dullahan? I would think that qualified you to critique a headless guitar more than most other people, no?
That shipping box though. I've eyeballed the B& Z's for awhile. Heard a decent amount of good on them. Didn't realize this was multiscale! So subtle like you said. Kinda decided this would be my headless once I get around to it with money and not having my wife be upset with me buying another (which is fair). Glad to see another review on these!
To be fair. I bought one of those NO headless models just for the heck of it for like £100 2nd hand and it became a daily guitar for me. Just sits by my desk at work plugged into my interface and play whenever I get a free minute. Lovely thing one it had frets done
Digging the tone of those pickups. I have a customer who is a Steinberger collector, and I've tried a couple of his. This thing is really tempting to me.
I only know two places to leave this and this is one of them. Dean is working with Eastwood on a Baritone. Literally on the other end of the spectrum from what you showed in this video, I know...but...
I bought one of the Eart ( GW2 I think, it's the one with the magnetic tuning handle. ) headless guitars and it's fantastic. Ridiculously comfortable to play no matter if I'm standing, sitting, or stretched out on the couch.
I'd have one as a travel instrument for vacations or if I'm traveling for whatever reason as far as the multi scale thing the low strings don't always have to be above 25.5 inches for example you can make a guitar with the 25.5 on the bass side and 24 and 3 quarters like a Gibson on the treble strings it's so you get a good tension between all the strings
@@zanzabar4ky7 in my opinion why bother? You might as well get a 25.5 guitar at that point considering the difference in tension on the guitar wouldn't noticeable
@@naruto199797 They are cloning a strandberg, and strandberg does it is why. I am not sure it makes sense without the endure neck to shift your hand that way. On the bright side with fanned frets you need a zero fret so the action/intonation in the cowboy region should be great without having to do the nut yourself. You also do not have to deal with a rough slot. I have one of the older swamp ash Plini Strandberg with the same fan/scale and love it. I rarely notice the fan
One of the Amazon reviews says, "But there's no truss rod to adjust, just a steel reinforcement and the neck is set basically flat." That's confusing me.
What happened to all the Dullahans at Thomann? I was getting ready to get one and all of the variations are gone and they only have the black one left.
Allegedly they're refreshing all the lines in the next few weeks. New colours, a few spec changes etc. It could be they've just run down the old stock and don't want to reorder with the new schemes starting soon.
Every headless guitar needs to have a ring in place of the headstock so it can be hung on a wall. Also, instead of or before replacing the pickups, try taking the covers off, then lowering the pickup significantly and compensating the height by significantly raising the pole pieces.
What exactly do you mean with that? They have certain specs that usually headless guitars have? How is the headless aspect relevant when you can have the same specs on any normal guitar?
@porkypile what normal guitar doesn't have the weight of a headstock and 0 neck dive? I play both regular guitars and headless guitars, and for long sessions or more classical guitar style positions for shred headless guitars are amazing. I know they are not everyone's thing, but I enjoy my strandberg alot.
I used to not be a fan of the headless look and I have been digging them more and more. I want a Vito Bratta signature Steinberger but I don’t have like $7k to get one. 😂
@@porkypile No headstock means better tuning stability, no neck dive, and low weight. Also, have you noticed that jigsaw shape at the back? It allows you to play in the (more efficient) classical guitar position. People have claimed to have recovered from wrist injuries and arthritis thanks to switching to a Strandberg. Abasi concept guitars and Klein guitars also do the Classical thing, but without being headless. Ergonomics matters as much as specs.
@@12askerr I don't believe Vito ever had a signature one. He played a GM style, which I believe Mike Rutherford from Genesis had a hand I'm designing.
If they were really ss frets they shouldn't need polishing. I built a guitar with ss frets a while back and the frets have never needed polishing. Maybe there's grades of ss frets?
Hello 👋🏻 Hunter , that was easily worth the 💵 money. That was a really great sounding track you put together! Everything fit together very well on that one. Almost like it’s cheapness Somehow made you want to throw down hard and get decent sounds out of it in spite of that fact! 😄🤟🏻actually a good sounding guitar for that kind of money 💰🎸🙂
Id like to sabotage these cheapo makers, and surprise have like 7 of em show up at once, and tell them the winner IMO has a lot to teach the others. Thats the video not one influencer made, they instead cheap out and do a retrospective and show clips to decide. In person, sometimes you find an advantage you thought one had, wasnt up to par versus something you didnt give a chance before. Anyways, influencers need to do this more, so we dont end up with 7 ok guitars, when we could get to the leader of the affordable pack and skip the lessers, it truly would increase the importance of these types of channels.
It was driving me crazy that the intro tune sounded so familiar but I couldn't remember what it was and days later realized it's New Jeans' Super Shy ahaha
The real 350$ question I think everyone should ask - What is the issue what a youtuber get a guitar from an unknown brand? They can send him a 1 off perfect guitar that pass QC. Who is to say the this will be the product a customer gets? This is my biggest issue with all these amazing and cheap guitars, if the price is too good to be true, there has so be a compromise that we don't know about.
A bad polish job makes no sense to me. No fret polishing makes sense since you're skipping the step altogether to cut costs, but a few minutes with a buffing wheel on a Dremel tool leaves you with a mirror finish. It's too easy to half ass.
The stainless steel they use on those cheap guitars is a very soft grade of stainless steel. They're actually softer than standard nickel silver fret wire. Stainless steel comes in many different grades from soft to very hard. Funny, the Chinese trick players in thinking they're getting the much sought after hard stainless while really getting really soft stainless steel. Try filing or sanding the frets, you'll see what I mean.
Same price as an EART on Amazon in Canada. $519 useless CDN bucks for both. Sounds fine for the $. Playability, action are another thing but you seem fine playing it. Any POS can be tweaked into the sweet spot. This is great. Honestly the first time I've seen you play as I always only ever see your shorts. New sub.
Dumb question and maybe I missed in video: regular strings can be used? I’ve seen “adapter” things for some headless guitars like Steinbergers over the years
Honestly didn't expect much but I was pretty impressed. Might make a good traveler guitar me vs lugging a pricier guitar around when I travel for work.
