And The Award For The Ugliest Headstock Goes To...

[MrBump]

http://www.lodestoneguitars.com/electric/electric-standard/index.asp

These are horrible!  Even worse than those James Tyler monstrosities that PQ likes...

[darkbluemurder]

I think the Tyler headstock is more ugly but I agree that they obviously did not put too much effort into that design. Ultimately it's matter of personal preference, of course.

Cheers Stephan

[Dave Sloven]

Yuck.  That reminded me of the Wangcaster

[ericsabbath]

Yuck.  That reminded me of the Wangcaster

my first though, either
 :lol:

heritage also makes awful headstocks, which is a shame, cause they have really really nice bodies

[Lucifuge]

Fender Starcaster.

[richard]

Epiphone. Horrible.

[Jamie]

Any Steinberger (if that counts)

[Andrew W]

Epiphone. Horrible.

I'm not having that. The batwing headstock is awesome:

My personal nomination for worst headstock, and rest of guitar come to that, is the Valeno:

[Dave Sloven]

I've always hated those huge Dean headstocks.

[Philly Q]

I thought this was going to be a Tyler thread!

That Lodestone headstock is very ugly (as is the guitar), but it wouldn't be too bad if it was a bit more streamlined.  It actually made me think of the Yamaha RGX-A2 headstock, in a way, which I really like:

[Philly Q]

Epiphone. Horrible.

I know this is a common headstock we see every day, but I really, really hate the standard Korean Epi Les Paul headstock.  Those "cut off" top corners are just awful (there's something strangely distressing about the three-screw truss rod cover, too).

[Dave Sloven]

I have an Epiphone Explorer, which has the same headstock shape as a Gibson Explorer.

My bandmate has just purchased the 50th Anniversary SG from Epiphone (the two P-90 model), and that has the ugly headstock, although it doesn't look as bad as the Les Paul one above, I think because it doesn't have all the trimmings.

[Philly Q]

I don't know why Epiphones don't have the Gibson headstock shape, since it's a Gibson brand.  Maybe it's for some kind of trademark reasons, or maybe just product differentiation.

My Japanese Epis all have the "proper" shape, thank god.

[Lucas]

I've always hated those huge Dean headstocks.

so you might hate my Dean Caddy then  :D :lol: :lol:

personally I dont like those thin Parker headstocks as well as all those diabolic BC Rich things.

[Dave Sloven]

Oh I had a BC Rich Warlock many years ago, atrocious headstock.  Being my first instrument and me being ignorant and all, first string change I started by removing the heavy string first.  Big mistake!! The string angle is so severe on the headstock that by the time I removed the D string the G string proceed to tear the nut straight off the neck!!!  It was replaced with a brass nut (we're talking 1991 here folks) and I always backed all of them off gradually across strings after that!!!  Big, ugly bass.  The only thing that prevented neck dive was the big ugly body.  The hard case was so big that people thought I had a keyboard in there.  Hands down the worst instrument I've ever owned.

Actually the angle might not have been that great, to think of it - it might just have been that there was an angle and the nut was very poorly attached