Hot or Not? Bootlegger Spade headless guitar

Jbird

Jbird

Kick Henry Jackassowski
They have a 25.5" scale 24 fret neck-thru model, and a 24.75" 22 fret bolt-on model:

https://bootleggerguitar.com/all-guitars/headless/

Roasted maple 5-piece necks w/2 mahogany stripes, and jabota (Brazilian cherry wood?) fretboards, or maple fretboards on a few of the 25.5" models.

Website says manufactured by BHK Industries, S. Korea?

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The short scale:
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Body
  • Three piece hard Maple body
  • Hard Swamp Ash wood body wings. 42mm body
  • Finish see through Polyurethane
  • Bolt on neck
  • Logo Bootlegger Whiskey Tattoo
Neck
  • 3 piece maple neck through body set neck
  • Neck Profile Oval
  • Fingerboard Material Brazilian Jatoba
  • Fingerboard Radius 13”
  • Number of Frets 24 / Full Fret Access Design
  • Scale 24.75 (Gibson)
  • Frets DHP – 24H / 2.7 mm silver nickel
  • Nut Material Graphite / Width Thick 3.4mm / Length 42mm
  • Dual truss rod
  • Inlays, White Pearl Bootlegger Whiskey Diamond
  • Side Inlay Dots Black 1.5mm
Measurements
  • Width 42mm at zero fret (nut)
  • Thick 21mm at zero fret, 23mm at 12th fret
Hardware
  • Black finish
  • Bridge & Tuners Alchemy Floating Tremolo with Monorail Bridge System
  • Head Taesung HL
  • Control Knobs Volume & Tone
  • Knobs Black Aluminum
  • Switch Tip Black
  • Switch Washer Black
  • Jack Plate LP Type Black 4 screw
Electronics Pickups
  • Bootlegger 98’s Humbuckers Alnico matched set modern wound
  • Neck 7.50 ohm
  • Bridge 8.40 ohm
  • Single Coil 8 ohm
  • Center positioned Bootlegger spec Single Coil
  • Coil Split neck and bridge 98’s Humbuckers
  • Controls 5 Way Toggle Switch
  • Conductive shielding for hum noise and radio interference reduction
Strings & Set Up
  • Strings. 009, .011, .016, .026, .036, .046
  • Uses Standard Single Ball Strings
  • String Setup 1mm
Miscellaneous
  • Guitar weight 4.5
  • Guitar Measurements 29 inches long, 10 Inches Wide, 1 1/2 inches Thick.
  • Case With Guitar Weight 11 Pounds
  • Case Dimensions 32 Inches Long, 13 Inches Wide, 4 Inches Thick
  • Case Bootlegger Tattoo Hard Shell Case
  • Included Accessories Case Key & Related Truss Rod & Tuning Tools.
 
Reminds me of the Erlewine Lazer that Johnny Winter played in the '80s.
Also not my thing.
 
micwalt said:
Reminds me of the Erlewine Lazer that Johnny Winter played in the '80s.
Also not my thing.
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It DOES look a lot like an Erlewine Lazer, now that I googled them :eek:

And they are still being made, apparently. Erlewine should do a Gibson and send Bootlegger a C&D letter :tongue:
 
They have some nice-looking conventional-head guitars as well. And the prices are very reasonable - I’d like to see em in person.
 
I'm with some others in that I wouldn't buy one, but if I had to play a headless guitar I would go for the top one.
 
For some reason, a headless guitar with bolt-on neck seems crazy to me. I always assume a headless is neck-thru.
 
It’s ugly and the neck dive from a guitar with a tiny little body must be awful.
 
It's so far from my thing that I feel it would churlish even to criticise it. It'd be like criticising an oboe for not having a bigsby and dynasonics.
 
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