What is this for? What does it do?

bassduke49 · Post by **bassduke49** » Tue Jan 13, 2009 3:08 pm

http://cgi.ebay.com/Groove-Tubes-FATHEA ... 240%3A1318

Elnjaybass · Post by **Elnjaybass** » Tue Jan 13, 2009 3:12 pm

http://www.groovetubes.com/FATHEAD_P2130.cfm

Hmmmm...

72rick · Post by **72rick** » Tue Jan 13, 2009 3:18 pm

Looks like an eighties idea of adding mass to the headstock, to add "sustain and ballance".

It's like the big clip-on Capo-Thing you see on Acoustic Guitar Headstocks, marketed to do the same thing for Acoustic Guitars as well as electrics I guess.

I say eighties because it's a big "Brass" Plate. Very Eighties!

Garret

rickaddict · Post by **rickaddict** » Tue Jan 13, 2009 3:46 pm

Interesting product.

But I kinda like my Ricks the way they are.

sloop_john_b · Post by **sloop_john_b** » Tue Jan 13, 2009 3:50 pm

I thought less headstock mass = more sustain?

cjj · Post by **cjj** » Tue Jan 13, 2009 3:55 pm

Yes, but more mass on the headstock via an after market addition means more sustain for the maker, economic sustain that is...

gearhed289 · Post by **gearhed289** » Tue Jan 13, 2009 4:03 pm

I remember those things from the 80s. Supposed to add sustain and reduce dead spots. Never tried one....

rickenbrother · Post by **rickenbrother** » Tue Jan 13, 2009 4:08 pm

gearhed289 wrote:Supposed to add sustain and reduce dead spots. Never tried one....

Right, that was the claim. Never tried one either as I never felt the need for it.

winston · Post by **winston** » Tue Jan 13, 2009 4:11 pm

jeepers if I get any more sustain my notes will go on forever..........

rickaddict · Post by **rickaddict** » Tue Jan 13, 2009 4:21 pm

winston wrote:jeepers if I get any more sustain my notes will go on forever..........

What would we do? We'd have to turn the volume knob down when we strike a note to get it to stop ringing!

rickaddict · Post by **rickaddict** » Tue Jan 13, 2009 4:24 pm

OMG! Could you imagine if you put one of these things on a bass that already had a brass nut and a Hipshot bridge? You wouldn't even have to strike the strings. The notes would already be ringing!

dog · Post by **dog** » Tue Jan 13, 2009 5:08 pm

But guys...it is an ORIGINAL Fathead. Doesn't everyone need one?

johnallg · Post by **johnallg** » Tue Jan 13, 2009 5:12 pm

rickaddict wrote:OMG! Could you imagine if you put one of these things on a bass that already had a brass nut and a Hipshot bridge? You wouldn't even have to strike the strings. The notes would already be ringing!

My Ricks laying anywhere in the room with the amp on and unmuted will excite the strings (due to the hum susceptibility of single coils) and bounce the furniture around the room if allowed (aloud?!) to continue.

Gimmick.

cjj · Post by **cjj** » Tue Jan 13, 2009 5:26 pm

dog wrote:But guys...it is an ORIGINAL Fathead. Doesn't everyone need one?

I've had people call me one of those...

beatlefreak · Post by **beatlefreak** » Tue Jan 13, 2009 6:04 pm

I guess it's for people who want more neck dive on their bass...

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