Hey Everyone,
I just bought myself one of these on eBay as a birthday present to myself for this year:
https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/354175738644
Hey Everyone,
I just bought myself one of these on eBay as a birthday present to myself for this year:
https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/354175738644
Very nice!
Nice, I have the standard GT version of this. It’s a versatile little axe, though I find the neck a bit chunky.
Nice birthday gift. I love the colour!
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Originally Posted by Trevor Davies
Yeah, I love the colour too, they also come in HotRod Red, HotRod Yellow, White, Black, Black & White, and maybe a few other colours as well.
Update:
I've just checked the status of my purchase on eBay, and it says that the seller posted it to me and it's on it's way, I should be expecting delivery of it next fortnight.
Update:
Guess what arrived in the post today?......my new Steinberger guitar:
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Once I get my digital camera recharged, I'll take some better quality pics of it, this pic was taken using my new Opel Smart X6 mobile phone I bought as a replacement for my old Google Pixel 3 phone, the battery went all gassy in it and caused it to bulge.
Very compact body.
Interested to know how it sounds.
Would make a great kit if Pitbull wanted to expand its range.
Pitbull don't seem to do their headless kits at all now. :(
Glad I got mine when I did.
To my ears it sounds a lot like a Hot Rodded Fender Strat, the neck is made from hard maple, and the body is made from Basswood according to the Steinberger website, and yes the neck is a full 25.5 inch Fender Scale neck, pickups are passive types, although you could retrofit some active EMGs in it if you wanted to, I just made a single ball-end string adaptor for my Steinberger guitar so I could put a set of Ernie Ball Super Slinky 42-09 gauge strings on it, so far the adaptor I made seems to work well enough, I'm going to order a commercially made adaptor online next fortnight.Quote:
Originally Posted by colin2121
Reason why I put the Super Slinkys on....the stock strings were 46-10 gauge strings so I found them a bit too heavy for my liking, in terms of string-tension.
I agree, I did see at least one Headless guitar kit and one Headless bass kit in amongst the range of kits on offer, they might have been discontinued for some reason, maybe Adam might know why.
Possibly availability. There seem to be quite a few ‘standard’ kits that are not listed at the moment.
The Overlord of Music bridges are the only headless ones available cheap enough to supply with a kit, and they are a long way from perfect and really need work to them to make them perform adequately.
There will probably be trademark issues with the small Steinberger body shape, so you’d have to have a kit that had a different body shape, though it wouldn’t be hard to make one that could easily be cut down to size if you wanted to.
I can get a new Spirit GT-PRO in the UK from £299 shipped and that includes a gig bag. Given that the headless kits cost more than than a lot of otherwise similar kits due to the extra hardware costs, and the extra costs of shipping and duty and the finishes, it wouldn’t make economic sense for me not to buy a real Spirit, given that the hardware on the Spirit would be far superior to that which came with the kit.
Since the single ball-end string adaptor I made seems to be working really well, I decided to go ahead and order a Brass six-string adaptor from this website:
https://headlessusa.com/string-adaptrrs
So far I've been having a great time playing my new Steinberger guitar, I took it and my Boss Katana amp to a jam night on Tuesday night, had a great time.