Finally managed to get my hands on my dream guitar. Upgrading from a 7 to an 8 string is a bit weird but easier than a 6 to a 7. Some specs for those interested:

  • Skeversen Shoggie 8
  • 26-28" 5-piece pau ferro & wenge neck, flame maple fretboard
  • European ash body, flame maple top wood
  • Bare Knuckle Juggernaut in the Bridge, BKP Cold Sweat in the Neck
  • Skervesen’s “World Domination Mod” AKA coil split and “acoustic” switch
  • MinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 month ago

    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.

    • Canadian_Cabinet @lemmy.caOPEnglish
      5·
      1 month ago

      This is my first headless guitar and the more cramped tuners are definitely something I’ll have to get used to

        • [object Object]@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          1 month ago

          Looks like there’s this kind of thing for some guitars, but other ones don’t have the grooves on the pegs for that.

          • MinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            1 month ago

            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.

            • [object Object]@lemmy.worldEnglish
              2·
              1 month 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.

        • Canadian_Cabinet @lemmy.caOPEnglish
          31·
          1 month ago

          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

    • [object Object]@lemmy.worldEnglish
      41·
      1 month ago

      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.

      • MinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.worldEnglish
        31·
        1 month ago

        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