To Slot or Not?

[cpabolting]

Originally Posted by Bruce Sexauer

If you like the look, I do, and you can afford a few more dollars (I charge for it), you'll love it every time you look at it. The difficulty of changing strings on a slot head it overplayed. My personal guitar is a slot head, and once I developed a system I do not believe it takes any more time, or barely any, and in no longer lose control of the strings nor do I pierce my finger. The only addition tool required for my system is an awl, which is used to pull the first winding through the post after which I pull the rest of the windings out of the head; some people use a clipper for this. My version of the slot head is fully sculptural and it is an artistic statement where the guitar faces the world, on other instruments YMMV.

If you were in the middle of a gig and had to change a string, it would definitely would be an issue and harder to do, especially on the fly.

[Roadrunner]

Julius Borges

[Haans]

Thanks....

[OddManOut]

Since somebody revived this thread, I thought I would post a pic of the final result (also posted as an NGD and as a build thread).

To slot or not? A picture is worth 1,000 words.

[ukejon]

Well done..well done indeed! (I'm fimly in the pro-slothead camp...looks great, nearly as quick for string changes, and unmistakably better wind resistance).