Agile Headless Evaluation Model!

[sezna]

Not that it'll make a bit of difference but when I get some free time, I'd love to sketch up an Interceptor and/or Intrepid headless. Kurt chose the Hawker and he was originally talking about the AL shape, so clearly he wanted to base the headless on an existing shape.... The current design isn't terrible but I have a feeling the Intrepid or Interceptor base would work better

Not giving you orders or anything...but I wouldn't mind seeing a single cut version or one with that strandberg-type leg cutout....

 

[rampant]

Reminds me of Buck Dharma and his Steinberger. I always thought those looked too weird but the people who like them LOVE them.

 

[Opion]

Not that it'll make a bit of difference but when I get some free time, I'd love to sketch up an Interceptor and/or Intrepid headless. Kurt chose the Hawker and he was originally talking about the AL shape, so clearly he wanted to base the headless on an existing shape.... The current design isn't terrible but I have a feeling the Intrepid or Interceptor base would work better

I absolutely agree with you on that. But also I can't help but think this kinda looks like an OG Steinberger, and c'mon how cool is that. I wonder if the Steinberger design is gonna become trendy again

 

[HurrDurr]

Man am I a happy camper with all this. Kurt finally found a way to make our dreams seem that much closer to reality. There's a lot I like about this model as I've been a fan of the Hawker and all its iterations since I first saw them. That being said, I'd love if he could find a way to maybe slim out that bottom belly a bit because it does look a bit to wide to my eyes. However, I can't imagine the tooling costs to accomplish that at the volume these factories produce without resorting to hand filing it down (a big no-no for large and mostly automated factories). Aside from that I think the shape works really well as a headless. I'd definitely like to see him take these specs to the Interceptor and Intrepid lines, but I'm happy with this.

P.S.: Tried to throw money at Rondo for the proto before I wrote this and it seems it's already been snatched. I'll be waiting on that NGD whoever you are!

 

[Explorer]

Dang it!

After real life got pretty busy, I just popped onto SS.org to look up if anyone had ever bought a Kiesel electric 12-string (and dropped Carvin/Kiesel from my list of possibilities after that poop show of Keisel defending their right to do a crappy job, thanks no thanks), and found this topic attempting to search "12-string" through the internal search function.

And as soon as I saw a link to the Rondo site with that guitar, i immediately tried to add it to the cart for an instant purchase, only for them to tell me that there were none to add. (NOOOoooo°°°...!)

I am disappoint.

I'm gonna do some more searches, but it's nice to see the Hessian might finally become a possibility.

 

[kurtzentmaier]

Just a few left now

http://www.rondomusic.com/Agile_Hawker_Headless_BlackFlame.html
http://www.rondomusic.com/Agile_Hawker_Headless_BBR.html

Kurt

 

[Unleash The Fury]

Technically i wouldnt call it a headless. Id call it a headstock without tuning pegs.

But that swirly red color is gorgeous!

 

[EverDream]

Technically i wouldnt call it a headless. Id call it a headstock without tuning pegs.

I agree

 

[Unleash The Fury]

http://www.rondomusic.com/Agile_Hawker_Headless_627_BBR_ss9554.html

This is new to the Rondo site

 

[Mathemagician]

That’s got a big booty for a headless. But otherwise looks pretty great actually. And a headless at THAT price point. Pretty impressive.

 

[Unleash The Fury]

That’s got a big booty for a headless. But otherwise looks pretty great actually. And a headless at THAT price point. Pretty impressive.

I still think the head looks retarted on it. It looks like they partially amputated a normal headstock. Also wish they would change the color already for their 27" models because they have plenty of oceanburst guitars on that site

 

[gunch]

http://www.rondomusic.com/Agile_Hawker_Headless_BBR.html

Scale length: 24 3/4"

YES DADDY

I'd defintely try to fit a different string retaining system though, or just hack it off enough to fit a floyd nut/clamp there

 

[Unleash The Fury]

http://www.rondomusic.com/Agile_Hawker_Headless_BBR.html



YES DADDY

I'd defintely try to fit a different string retaining system though, or just hack it off enough to fit a floyd nut/clamp there

Must admit, that top and color is absolutley beautiful. Its like a guitar from Mars

 

[marcwormjim]

Get your headless ass to Mars.

 

[DudeManBrother]

Current design above for reference


Quick and terrible editing on my part: I’d like the design a lot more if it was more like this. By cutting the excess body off; the “headstock” cut be shortened considerably as well, but maintain good balance

 

[manu80]

Looks nice, stil dont understand the need to copy even the brand name next to the neck cutaway like Strandberg.....

 

[Unleash The Fury]

........and like Kiesel. I dont mind it though. Maybe they should put the logo on the back or on the outer diameter

 

[marcwormjim]

Right? Why even put a brand logo in a prominent spot on the body like that when you can just put it on the headsto...