[jcjenkins3]

We have "Americanized", although some might say stolen, a new headstock design from our wonderful Italian cohorts, Simone and Andrea. We jokingly call them our Italian division. They collaborate with us on many things, including researching tone wood science (please look at their Abies Project), and guitar building. Last year they built a wonderful guitar for another of our Italian friends, Carlo Conti, using the Big Hoss body shape. It was a mutual experiment to see how falcate bracing worked in a Big Hoss. I must say it was quite successful. The guitar sounds wonderful in the hands of a great player like Carlo. In the process, they developed a new headstock design that made a lot of sense to us with respect to where the wood was relieved for the strings to pass from the nut to the slot head tuners. We altered it a little bit. This is our version in the rough - not sanded, fingerboard not sanded, and only placed on to show its final position, also no truss rod cover. The truss rod cover will be set into the head plate and held in place with magnets.