What you don't know about the slotted headstock.
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Published 2023-11-08
If you're here just for the restring part, skip to around the 4:30 mark!
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All Comments (15)
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After buying my first slot-head, I fell in love w/ the elegance, and now almost all my acoustics are slot-head.
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Great series of videos . Good details, common sense, good pacing. I’ve done a ton of reading on woods, sound physics, strings etc..(to pick out my dream guitars). ..but l’m learning stuff here. Thanks .! 👍🏽
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ooh nifty! Kyle, these videos are so fresh. thanks for taking good care of my guitar!
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lol I have same odd obsession with slotted headstocks. Something about the aesthetic. Great video
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Paddle headstocks are the OG back when guitars used friction pegs and machine heads were incredibly expensive to produce. They're still popular on flamenco guitars to preserve the original "flamenco" aesthetic either with friction pegs or mechanical tuners with orbital gears to look like friction pegs.
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It's impossible to me to not think this way: Slotted headstock: 🤓 Paddle headstock: 😎
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Thank you, i have one slotted, a 12 ovation pacemaker. (i know/ i know). :) I certainly dread changing strings on that. But if I change one string at a time I have the prior as a guide to know approximately where the string winding should end up to avoid snagging the wood slots. I suppose I could make a small mark with a sharpie on the tuning post. Either way it's a lot to take on compared to a telecaster ;). I appreciate your videos and talents!
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Thanks 👍
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Hey, great video! Thanks. Stop putting tools on your bridge to pull your pins though. Reach your hand INSIDE the body, push the pin up! If it hurts to push up on it, put a glove on, or push with a square of cardboard. I'm not picking on you, I see a thousand videos with people putting all kinds of "tools" that can scratch the bridge. Crazy. Makes no sense if you're cutting the strings anyway... Just a tip from an old guitar guy.
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Kyle, I had a standard peg head guitar made by a friend. Is it possible to turn that head into a slot head? Or will the break angle screw up the sound?
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My 50 year old Martin D12-35 is a slotted headstock.
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so the same but rotated...interesting
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The slotted headstock is for the intellectuals <> the solid headstock is much more sexy
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On the smaller strings i go through the hole once ,go up and around the barrel and through the hole again and pull the tail tight and whind up to pitch.
