Warren D blood drip skull strat question

[txcharvel]

In the Round and Round video, Warren is playing his blood drip skull graphic strat with a pointy headstock. In the Back For More video he is playing what looks to be the same guitar, with a maple board strat head neck.

Is this the same guitar with a different neck [img]/images/graemlins/scratchhead.gif[/img]

[neilli]

Re: Warren D blood drip skull strat question

Apparently he had some pointy head guitars as well as his strat-heads. However, he definitely had 2 stratheads with that graphic (Trace has some cool pics) so it could be that in this case it was the same body with a different neck.....

[txcharvel]

Re: Warren D blood drip skull strat question

I was thinking he switched the necks out because I never saw him with a pointy again after the Round and Round video.

[charveljunkie]

Re: Warren D blood drip skull strat question

The pointy one had the headstock snapped off-I remember it from a promo photo of strings or something?? I know who has that guitar with the headstock repaired and playable. Problem is he wants a friggin mint for it.

[atomic charvel guy]

Re: Warren D blood drip skull strat question

i found a dude in san diego a few years ago who used to be babysat by stephen pearcy and the warren,etc. etc. he claimed to have had one of warrens real stratheads of the blod drip with the skull. he wanted 20k, i offered 10k and wanted to drive down to see it but he was not interested at 10k. he was a cool dude named jason, he had other chharvels he put up on the bay and he sells videos and tablature too.

[BLOOD SPLATTER]

Re: Warren D blood drip skull strat question

<font color="orange">AFAIK,he had a strathead & Floyd added after the headstock broke & also had another BD&S with identical specs,the graphics are slightly different though!! </font>

<font color="orange"> Former pointy is on the left!! </font>

[Badseed]

Re: Warren D blood drip skull strat question

The one in round and round doesnt have a logo, pause it and you'll see.Just blood drip paint.I think that was the "seconds" charvel warren talked about getting out of the dumpster before having an endorsement.

[Birdzeyeee]

Re: Warren D blood drip skull strat question

Have seen that pointy neck with the gold Charvel logo before it was never seen in public again. Think that most players learned that pointies w/ Floyd drilled nut holes (from that era) made that type of headstock more suceptable to breakage. Hence, stratheads are thicker and more protected from that potential problem by design. Pointies are fragile enough without drilling 2 holes through the weakest point in the neck. A luthier confirmed this was the case.

[~K~]

Re: Warren D blood drip skull strat question

Funny we had that exact argument over bigred and we had guys swearing up and down it didn't compromise the intergrety of the headstock

[Birdzeyeee]

Re: Warren D blood drip skull strat question

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Funny we had that exact argument over bigred and we had guys swearing up and down it didn't compromise the intergrety of the headstock

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A long time guitar luthier showed me how the Floyd nuts were especially hazardous to the already fragile pointy headstock. He was explaining how the thin back and drilling two holes don't mix well (as evidenced by a couple of broken Charvel pointies at his shop awaiting repair). Installing the '80's era Floyd nut on a Fender Strat was not a problem. I believe this is because Floyds were actually designed for Fender Strats in the first place. The new Floyd nut design is not nearly as stressful on necks as the original ones.