Headstock plate

[ducktrapper]

This is my favourite although the maple's purty too.



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[Queequeg]

 Sometimes you just get lucky, and are in the right place at the right time.

And you are just about the luckiest guy I know. 
How many GOTM trophies have you taken home?

[Walkerman]

And you are just about the luckiest guy I know. 
How many GOTM trophies have you taken home?

Compared to Randy R's collection, I'm just a piker...

[JOYCEfromNS]

Compared to Randy R's collection, I'm just a piker...

Well I like em both!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Danny]

Today straight from the shop the standard is Ebony. Occasionally we will use rosewood on special editions. i.e. recently we ran some -03's in California that had rosewood headplates. The Traditional series use rosewood headplates as well.

In the 1960's, 70's, 80's and part of the 90's we used Rosewood pretty much exclusively. It really just changes with the times.

The only products on the guitar that are laminate based and the tail block of the instrument (We use very high grade baltic birch laminate). This laminate is superior to solid wood in this senario because of the impact risk from the guitar being dropped on its endpin. Solid wood will crack and split the side of the guitar, the cross hatched baltic birch will not crack. The change occured about 15 years ago about the time we started putting endpins on everything. Other than that, the Black/White strips in the binding are also laminate. This is for design purposes so that we can get a sharp black and white contrast. That material is a vulcanized fiber (aka forbon aka gasket material).

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Thanks for this information Matthew. We appreciate your input to clear things up on these subjects.

[Danny]

Compared to Randy R's collection, I'm just a piker...

Uh... what's a piker? A biker who blew his motor up, so he hitches rides on the "pikes" now? I know look it up, but this is more fun.
    Oh yea, nice maple headstock. I have a handmade with one, but it's needing more TLC. Your's is much nicer.

[Walkerman]

 Uh... what's a piker? A biker who blew his motor up, so he hitches rides on the "pikes" now? I know look it up, but this is more fun.
    Oh yea, nice maple headstock. I have a handmade with one, but it's needing more TLC. Your's is much nicer.

pik·er   
[pahy-ker]  Show IPA
–noun Informal .
1.
a person who does anything in a contemptibly small or cheap way.
2.
a stingy, tight-fisted person; tightwad.
3.
a person who gambles, speculates, etc., in a small, cautious way.

[ducktrapper]

If you're a piker, what does that make the rest of us? Wannabe pikers?   

[Michael T]

My L05-12 has a ebony headstock with almost no streaking at all, ya really got to look close. But here is a shot at a gig with stage lights hitting it at just the right angle, it looks almost rosewood.
The other shot is sunlight, looks like 2 diff guitars


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[JOYCEfromNS]

My L05-12 has a ebony headstock with almost no streaking at all, ya really got to look close. But here is a shot at a gig with stage lights hitting it at just the right angle, it looks almost rosewood.
The other shot is sunlight, looks like 2 diff guitars

[jbrummer]

Here's the headstock from my L-03.  The grain is visible though just faintly (pardon the dust speckles).  Had to add a few more pix just because  . . .

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[ducktrapper]

My L05-12 has a ebony headstock with almost no streaking at all, ya really got to look close. But here is a shot at a gig with stage lights hitting it at just the right angle, it looks almost rosewood.
The other shot is sunlight, looks like 2 diff guitars

I love how it looks with those tuners! Most excellent! 

[Zohn]

I love how it looks with those tuners! Most excellent! 

Some intricate wire works too  - it looks great though, and a real stunner.