My biggest issue with the strandberg I don’t have the skills to deserve to own but do anyway is the bridge tuner. Picking a string and then fumbling the pick out of my fingers so I can twist the peg is a pain. That’s the one bit of muscle memory that I just haven’t been able to deal with.

I know headless are off-putting to some but for me I absolutely love it. It looks really cool, it's lightweight, compact, and balanced. Tuning does take some adjustment, but that's something I'm willing to deal with. Lol

The one thing I've been considering is different pickups possibly. I'm not big on the contrast, personally, and the neck pickup is so chunky that I find myself hitting it with my pick often. This may be something that better technique could remedy, but I can't help but wonder if I'd like a HSS pickup configuration guitar better... The rabbit hole deepens. 😅

The only reason to have tuners on a guitar headstock is because you can pick the strings with your strumming hand while you tune with your fretting end, and that's the most comfortable and immediate way to do it.

Tuning a headless guitar reverses that and makes it a tiny bit more cumbersome, but any other aspect, regarding functionality of course, is objectively better: ligther in weight, smaller dimensions, neck doesn't dive when you play, more resonance, easier to carry around, you don't hit the top of the doorway when you wear the gigback on your shoulders...

Better balance, lighter weight, shorter overall length, more compact/travel friendly. Plus they look badass to me 😁

Mostly rock and metal 🤘

Thank you!

It plays really great. It has as much capability as I'll ever need, that's for sure. Nicest guitar I've ever had.

What do you have?

Not to disappoint but I think the light is throwing it off a bit. In real life it's more of a nickle finish. Here's a gold hardware model and a regular one for comparison: