“I think people are cottoning on to the fact that it’s just a good idea”: Why are so many players turning to headless guitars? We asked Plini, one of the biggest names in the game, to find out

One of the most enduring gear trends we’ve seen sweep across the electric guitar world over the past five years or so has been the unstoppable rise of headless guitars.

From Strandberg’s early innovations all the way to modern builds from the likes of Ibanez and Schecter, the appeal of headless electrics doesn’t seem to be going away – if anything, it only seems to be growing stronger.