Headless guitars have at all times eluded me, considerably. For the longest time I by no means noticed the purpose, plus I’ve solely ever had my fingers on a pair in my life. However as an enormous Avenged Sevenfold fan, when Synyster Gates added a headless Schecter to his rotation for the Life Is However a Dream album cycle, my curiosity in headless guitars was supercharged.

And now could be the proper time to get my fingers on one, as this Hils Subsequent HN4 has been discounted by 21% – over £100 over at Thomann. My first headless guitar for underneath £400 is a proposition that’s, fairly frankly, onerous to show down.

I get it – headless guitars aren’t for everybody… However they’ve been gaining reputation in recent times, and it’ll actually be a robust dialog piece every time you might have company over, that’s for positive…

When it comes to spec, with the Hils Subsequent HN4, you get a mahogany physique with a roasted maple neck and rosewood fingerboard – with 24 medium chrome steel frets, good for dabbling within the higher registers – in addition to a pair of Hils-designed humbuckers, managed by way of singular quantity and tone controls (the latter with a push-pull perform for coil splitting).

Additional {hardware} features a customized tremolo bridge, titanium locking machine heads, a bone nut, and .010 – .046 manufacturing facility strings, and it even comes with a gig bag, too.

So in case you’ve ever been tempted by a headless electrical guitar like me, now’s the time so as to add one to the guitar rack. However be warned, if it’s the final one in inventory, you’re gonna must combat me for it.

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Sam is the Affiliate Information Editor for Guitar.com and MusicTech. Completely immersed in music tradition for almost all of his life, Sam has performed guitar for 20 years, studied music know-how and manufacturing at college, and in addition written for the likes of Guitar World, Complete Guitar, Steel Hammer and MusicRadar.