I can barely deal with 6 man , that's crazy. Pretty though.
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That's a lovely-looking instrument. How is it to play?
It plays great. One neat little thing it that the string spacing isn't fixed, it actually gets spread out more with the bass strings, to account for the string width
Oh interesting. I'd have thought that would mess with your muscle memory a bit, but given that you're describing it positively I assume it doesn't
Bruv I've wanted headless 8 since I bought my 8-inline Agile 15 years ago. Jealous AF.
That's a thing of beauty! I wish you both many years of happiness!
I don't know anything about guitars, but that looks very cool!
I have a seven string, but I was sitting there chugging the other day and thinking "I could go lower...", and now I have a 5 string bass LMAO
i love the location of the tuning pegs. i'd look into something similar but i think i need the extra room for leverage with the bass.
This is my first headless guitar and the more cramped tuners are definitely something I'll have to get used to
do you need a tuning key or do you cover your fingers with superglue first? that looks impossible
Looks like there's this kind of thing for some guitars, but other ones don't have the grooves on the pegs for that.
yeah, that's what i was thinking of. I can't think you could get the leverage to tune a bass without one of those keys. I've seen keyless pegs on headed basses, but i've never seen pegs on the other end like this so i just assumed they came with a key
yeah, my bass was stolen that long ago.
I mean, when I first got my bass, I took it to a repair shop and asked them to make the nut lower because the strings were way too high for my feeble forearm muscles. So I guess most bassists have good finger grip.
i just got elixirs and strung 'em loose. love the sound. damn strings were worth more than the bass.
You can't really get your fingers "around" the peg so you kind of just "roll" them along it. I'm not sure if they even make tuning keys for this style of bridge
Apparently basses specifically benefit from the headless setup for better weight balance, and iirc got that treatment first.
Edit: here it is:
Furniture maker Ned Steinberger is often credited with pioneering headless designs in the early 1980s. Having already collaborated with Stuart Spector on the NS-2 bass guitar, Steinberger felt further improvements could be made. To address the common issue of "neck dive"—the tendency of bass guitars to tip forward due to their long, heavy necks—Steinberger decided on a novel solution: to move the tuners to the bridge and omit the headstock entirely.
dude. dude dude dude. my bass got stolen out of my storage locker years ago when i was only not homeless because of the couch surfing (they missed my saxophone somehow thank the gods the bass was a shitty 200 buck chinese johnson, they don't make saxes that cheap) i might go to the guitar store and check those out this weekend this is exciting
Beautiful. Congrats.
Wooo fancy shmanchy! Congrats, that looks nice.
1,2,3,4....wait a sec 5, 6 ,7? 8?! I've never played an 8 string. Whats the tuning?
So standard tuning is F#BEADGBe, but I'm running it as EBEADGBe. So the lowest E is an octave lower than a standard guitar. AKA the same pitch as the lowest note on a standard tuning 4 string bass
That's awesome and a great looking guitar, congrats! I recently moved to a 26.5 7 strings three months ago and it's been great just exploring what's available, I did standard b for the first couple months but last restring I switched up to standard a and it's fun as hell.
that's not a knife