“It's the most significant development in the last 50 years. Everything else has just been a little tweak on something Leo Fender or Les Paul did”: Once Allan Holdsworth picked up a headless Steinberger, there was no turning back

Allan Holdsworth performs onstage at the Paradiso in Amsterdam, the Netherlands on June 15, 1987.

Recently, we did a deep dive into why headless guitars, once seen as the Pontiac Aztek of sorts of the guitar world, have experienced a sudden surge in popularity.

Chatting with us at this year's NAMM show, noted headless aficionado Plini, for one, pointed to how ergonomic and lightweight headless models are, joking – to the ire of many – “if you don't need a 20 kilo guitar, why have it?”