#ELECTRIC GUITAR IDENTIFICATION BY HEADSTOCK SERIES#
They will share the original headstock as part of their brand and one of the series is going to have a completely new design body, rather than the ‘popular’ shapes like this Water Series have. The series will be as follows water, fire, earth, wind and void. The first of the series has been produced now, the Water Series. So that’s the news so far of my involvement in the Stonelake Guitars headstock design project. The symbols for the range of Stonelake guitar models on the drawing board. A guitar can handle much bigger ‘charms’ than a phone or key, you could even hang a dream-catcher, wind chime or bird cage from it if you were inclined to and had no taste! Installing a ‘headstock charm’ is not compulsory. The headstock accessory hole gives people an avenue to enjoy this accessorising without defacing or damaging the guitar – so one day if you trade it in it can be like new, just detach your personalisation! Everyone has seen phone charms, keyrings etc and knows the variety and popularity of them. People like to put their own flair, personality or customise things they own. Then I remembered lots of guitarists hanging accessories and so on from the guitar headstock, or I thought I remembered that because just now a Google image search shows no such things… Anyway, an accessory dangling hole is now a standard item on personal electronic consumer goods like phones and handheld game devices. Some people have asked what about the piercing in the end of the headstock, was it designed for 7 strings? The answer of course is yes and no, or no and yes! There will be a 7 string in the series but the hole originated by corresponding to the white space in the lower curve of the “S”. Stonelake Guitars, Water Series Guitar Stonelake Guitars, Water Series Guitar Headstock front Stonelake Guitars, Water Series Guitar Headstock back At least this would be the case if it wasn’t for all the copyists that infest the guitar industry, but we’ll ignore that fact for now. Likewise many Jackson, Burns and Ibanez guitars are recognisable by their silhouette, even without their signature headstock shapes. If you look at guitar companies such as Fender, you can probably see a guitar shape and know it’s one of their designs. After a short history it all helps make the brand recognisable without the logo even visible. So we get corporate logos, branding and identity. A company won’t want to introduce lots of new shapes, forms and colours on their products which is confusing to the product band identity. VW, Calvin Klein, Mazda, LG, MacDonalds, CNN). Using something from the letterforms or established logo forms of a company is something often done in graphic design and in branding products. Other headstocks at the time had even stronger “S” influences. Please see the illustration for this influence. Many of the headstock designs were conceived using the shapes already given to me in the letterform of “S” itself. Stonelake Guitars, Water Series Guitar S-for-StoneLake, in earlier draft sketch The guitars are made to exacting quality standards and as you can see are fully loaded with top of the range hardware to complement their craftsmanship and tonewoods. The first of the series of guitars made by Stonelake have now been hand crafted and arrived at the store HQ. The design they chose I have kept secret until now. In a nutshell these designs aren’t different from Fender / Gibson for the sake of it – but because they were designed from the ground up to work for Stonelake Guitars. I thought some of these designs had merit, while some were kinda crazy but if you look around the production guitars available today these designs still bring something new to the table – originals without looking like they wanted to be Gibson & Fender but couldn’t because of copyright. All these headstock designs were by-products from some work I was doing for a Singapore based guitar company called Stonelake Guitars. First of all I showed 5 new all original headstock designs, following that up with 6 more original headstock designs. A few months ago I wrote two articles about electric guitar headstock design.
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