Headstock Gallery

Over in the "Building Your Pitbull Guitar" part of the forum there are forums on Decals and on shaping headstocks. Finding myself at a loss for how to do my next headstock, I thought it would be good if there were a thread where folks could show off "headstock art" either that they had made or that they found to be an inspiration. Here's the one-and-only that I have made so far. Very simple. Did not cut the stock headstock. Waterslide decals were made with MS Word, an inkjet printer, and a bit of Krylon Workable Fixatif.

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My tele headstock.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...bae9fcda58.jpg

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Very cool

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Great idea for a thread!

Both those headstocks are cool but that tele one really does it for me

Here's my only effort to date: https://i.imgur.com/LcSICRN.jpg
The blank was off centre and I wanted a simpler scroll at the top. I looked at my other guitars and none of them had a chamfer on the headstock so I added one. :)
The logo was a laser printer > packing tape > soak off in water job. Only thing I'd do differently there is apply it much sooner in the oiling process (say after the first half dozen coats).
Got a more complicated plan burgeoning for the next one.

I like it. Also a beautiful truss rod but cover. Did you find it or make it?

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Thanks, TRC was a homemade job. Bit of pine trimmed to size, was trying to be sympathetic to the waisted effect of the headstock, dyed with some watercolour paint, sanded, over-sanded, dyed again, repeat... Managed to mimic the horizontals in the scratch plate as well, but that was equal parts luck and judgement... ;)

Cool thread, keep them coming!

I'll throw a few of mine in. The pics are from the build diaries and are maybe not the best angles but you get the idea.

RC-4
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FB-1M
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And the inspiration,
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My interpretation on an ES-3
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Grant

All I can say is wow! Those are truly works of art

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