I finally bought my first headless guitar, a Hils HNT1.

Since Strandbergs came out in 2012, the whole point of headless guitars is to be as ergonomic as it gets. But Strandbergs also look like alien axes from Halo, which may appeal to many people, but I'm more into a classic look.
So here's where Hils steps into the spotlight: all their guitars try to ease your eye as well as your posture, especially with the latest HNS1 and HNT1 models. Even my most hardcore traditional friends had to cave in and admit that they nailed the look.

The guitar makes you want to play all the time. It always sits perfectly, whether you're standing, sitting or laying on your sofa and watching TV while practicing scales. And even if I didn't buy this guitar for it's sound, the pickups do their honest work.

For the money (400€), Hils gave a great amount of attention to their product: the guitar came out of the box properly set up and intonated and I was positively surprised when I opened the back panel and found out that the cavity was covered in shielding paint and the volume pot had a treble bleed. You don't see things like these from the lawsuit brand.

First let's talk about the name: it comes from the guitar that I harvested the neck from, a Storm ST250 that my father bought me 20 years ago for 100€, and the fact that every piece is also either scrap from my parts box or cheap crap from AliExpress.

This instrument has been built mainly as a proof of concept to try a wiring diagram my delirious mind put together: the most versatile one-pickup guitar.

With the magic of a göldo 3-way superwitch, we have a full humbucker on position 1, a parallel configuration on position 2 for those strat-y inbetween sounds and an humbucker that bypasses the controls on position 3 for a small boost in volume and high frequencies (and an accidental killswitch if you roll down the volume all the way). The wiring looks like a plate of spaghetti, but that's the way to do it .

As an endnote, shout out to the Donlis DH05 pickup I got for 20€: for the price it does an amazing impression of a DiMarzio Super Distortion.

Edit: I took a better picture

Apparently Thomann decided to take legal action against Bud Cole's (Fender's CEO) cease and desist campaign.
Interested to see how the situation will evolve.