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I propose the writing of a subsection underneath "Construction" titled "Headstock". Why should there be "Bridge and tailpiece systems", "Pickups", and "Guitar necks", but no "Headstock"?
You could write in a variety of information. You could include the straight design of the classic Fender headstocks, the backwards-leaning Gibson headstocks now popular on most guitars, the method of making the headstock from a separate piece of wood from the neck (usually wedged in under the fretboard at the nut), and even the making of headless guitars and their brands such as the famous Steinberger and the ever-more-popular contemporary brand Strandberg (which really should have an article of its own with all the notable artists playing them). You could describe the different methods of tuner installation, from 3x3, 4x2, inline, reverse-inline, and with extended-range guitars you have the 4x3, 3x4, 4x4, 6x2, etc. You could go more in-depth about tuner design. If you wanted to go exhaustively in-depth, you could even describe the friction/tuning issues that result from headstock designs that make the string come out of the nut at an angle.
My point is that there is a wide list of stuff to talk about on the topic, so there isn't really a reason not to have this section. — Tha†emoover†here (talk) 20:20, 20 March 2018 (UTC)
To summarize my previous comments (now archived):
Give it a thought.
Weeb Dingle (talk) 04:54, 1 May 2018 (UTC)
My vote is to entirely get rid of Electric guitar#Playing techniques.
In sum, it's at best redundant with Category:Guitar performance techniques. After the brief intro section, the interested reader can head on over to Extended technique, so nothing is lost in the uncluttering.
Weeb Dingle (talk) 02:24, 28 January 2019 (UTC)
For some reason, lowercase sigmabot III is targeting this Talk page, and (coincidentally, I suppose) squirrelling away my posts.
My understanding is that notable changes to an article are supposed to be backed up by a Talk discussion, and more-significant overhauls should be in fact preceded by opportunity for general discussion (so that the "group mind" might achieve some sort of consensus).
I attempt to explain why I'm making the sometimes substantial changes to Electric guitar. If no discussion ensues, a secondary benefit of an explanatory Talk post is establishing guidelines (albeit subject to change) that are specific to that article. So, should an editor view Electric guitar and decide to add the very sort of information that's actually been removed, the tacit "rules" can be explored in Talk and maybe revised.
This hasn't been working out so well. In as little as two months (or even less), the bot wanders in and duly hides away my rationale — and as well opportunity for discussion.
Bizarrely enough, the bot has time-and-again been leaving two ancient unsigned posts (for which "non sequitur" is an understatement), a 2010 review, and a 2016 "External links modified" notice, so it's not as though Sigmabot has demonstrated any rudimentary housekeeping skill.
I reverted some of the archivings, and may bring more back. Of course, even this is open to discussion and compromise… assuming, of course, this post isn't buried by the end of the month.
Weeb Dingle (talk) 03:45, 11 October 2019 (UTC)
Jamaican inventor named Hedley Jones - who BEAT Les Paul, Bigsby, Fender, AND Gibson Guitars to the solid wood body Spanish electric guitar with his "Automatic Guitar" in 1940! But he didn't stop there. His accomplishments also include possibly being the first guitar amp maker to exceed 100 watts, the first to invent Jamaican "sound system culture", and the first to produce a DOUBLE-NECK electric guitar — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:C7D:AA16:400:A1B2:8563:8F09:77C7 (talk) 20:53, 20 March 2020 (UTC)