Prs headstocks…..you can do it!

[Mudd11]

I just want to love prs, but every time I look at the headstock it makes me think of metal.

Fender and Gibson have multiple headstock shapes…….why can’t prs come up with a more traditional look for just a few of their more traditional body shapes??

Those great curves on a s2 mira or Starla, maybe a bigsby, and then a headstock that looks like it’ll cut you!

I know for every guy like me, there’s 100 prs fans that would not like a change. But I just think prs is missing out on a marketing segment. *rant over*

 

[Southpaw Tele]

Yeah, it looks out of place on the Silver Sky (and too small?). I don’t like the shape, in general, though. I want to buy a PRS SE model but I just can’t get past the looks, personally.

 

[D K Souther]

Get yourself a Dremel and a drum sanding bit. Round the corners to whatever shape you like?

 

[sergiodeblanc]

You could get something with a Santana headstock?

 

[LaMarr Bruister]

I just want to love prs, but every time I look at the headstock it makes me think of metal.

Fender and Gibson have multiple headstock shapes…….why can’t prs come up with a more traditional look for just a few of their more traditional body shapes??

Those great curves on a s2 mira or Starla, maybe a bigsby, and then a headstock that looks like it’ll cut you!

I know for every guy like me, there’s 100 prs fans that would not like a change. But I just think prs is missing out on a marketing segment. *rant over*

Hmmm metal? You think of heavy metal when you see a pink silver sky?

Can you show us any pictures of a dude in a black shirt, black jeans, black doc martins, long black hair, and sweatbands on the wrist with one of these heavy metal PRS guitars?

I get more hippie Santana vibes!

 

[aarontunes]

PRS has multiple heastocks too. The problem is you just don't like the PRS aesthetic. It's simply the way Paul designs, and you either like it or you don't. Though they are different, all Fenders have a unifying "look". Same with Jacksons. Same with Gibson. Same with EBMM, or Dean, or Suhr, on any other builder.

The sentiment in the OP is akin to saying "I would really like a Van Gogh or Monet to hang in my living room, but I just wish their paintings were more realistic."

 

[TurquoiseStrat]

Interesting. I hate all things pointy, but I actually don’t mind the PRS headstock.

 

[WesDocJimi]

I think the headstock is classy!

 

[Chiba]

When it comes to PRS heads, it's the Santana shape I don't like. I love the offset double pointy normal PRS head!

 

[sergiodeblanc]

I mean, they could be worse:

 

[PB+J]

I don't like the headstock, or the birds. You can avoid the gaudy tops, and they have a few non-bird models, but the headstock is still there, looking like the early 80s is calling with regrets about some of its fashion choices

 

[Tritone]

Interesting. I hate all things pointy, but I actually don’t mind the PRS headstock.

I'm the same. While I despise pointy guitars, somehow the PRS headstock looks just as satisfying as a Gibson or Fender headstock. I don't see metal, I just see some elegant curves. I think they nailed it.

Flame maple tops, on the other hand, I can't stand.

 

[StringsNThings]

I’ve always digged the headstock and the birds. PRS’s fine signature if you ask me! Two guitars I have lusted over since I was a pre teen were the CU 24 and the Jem777. Both I would say have a signature look.

 

[Jim Soloway]

I think that functionally it's the best headstock ever designed. I love it.

 

[markmann]

I'm not a big fan of the PRS but at least the string path is fairly straight as compared to the typical Gibson head stock which I really don't like at all.

 

[sergiodeblanc]

I'm not a big fan of the PRS but at least the string path is fairly straight as compared to the typical Gibson head stock which I really don't like at all.

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I think after you spend an amount of time with a headstock you just kinda get used to it.

I used to love the Gibson one back in the day when I was still playing them, but yeah, I look at them now and they don’t make sense.

 

[spawnofthesith]

Metal doesn't really come to mind for me with the PRS head stock. I think it looks weird on the silver sky, but otherwise I actually really like their head stock shape. It's original, classy, and cool. A lot of guitar manufacturers cant pull that off

 

[Family Man]

I don't care for the look of the headstocks, but the 594s are too good to not play. So I look past the headstock and rock out!

 

[spawnofthesith]

Hmmm metal? You think of heavy metal when you see a pink silver sky?

Can you show us any pictures of a dude in a black shirt, black jeans, black doc martins, long black hair, and sweatbands on the wrist with one of these heavy metal PRS guitars?

I get more hippie Santana vibes!

In fairness there is a contingency of prog metal players really into PRS, and they also have the radio butt.. er I mean hard rock market cornered


But nearly every jam band also plays PRS so the hippie vibe aint wrong

 

[metrokosmiko]

I can't imagine my Vela with a different headstock anyway

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