This part III.2 of the “How to design your own guitar step by step”, now we will draw a headstock, it’ll be simple, just a 3+3 like from an acoustic guitar.

First we have to draw two circles with the same center, 6mm (tuner axis) and 10mm (hole for the tuner) respectively.  The 6mm hole is very important cause it’ll allow us to correctly align the tuners respect the nut, this way we can also control the lateral angle of the strings once they get through the nut.

Step 1

If  look at this, you’ll notice that the angle vary from string to string, this isn’t bad if we keep this angle at a minimum.

Step 2

Now we need to draw the tuners to get sure they are correctly aligned

Step 3

We want to design a 3+3 symmetric headstock, so we can just repeat the 3 holes from the left side in the right side

Step 4

Now we just have to design the shape!

Step 5

And just like that we have designed our own guitar headstock, it up to you to create an unique and cool headstock! Next time we will be talking about how to place the pickups in your guitar design!

The headstock fetish

I have been talking with some friends and we all have something in common… i call it “the headstock fetish”.
we all love and hate a particular kind of headstocks. For example: i love big and bad headstocks, like the Dean and B.C Rich and the reverse headstocks (B.C Rich Stealth or some Jacksons) and i absolutely hate guitars without headstocks and telecaster headstocks.

A guitar must have a headstock dude!

In the other hand, one of my friends LOVE guitars without headstock and Parker’s headstock, but he hates Gibson-style headstocks, he says “they’re just so… not-me”. And other people have a fetish for Music Man style headstocks.

As i ask more and more people i realise that every guitar player has his own headstock fetish, what’s yours?