[quote name='Ancient Mariner' timestamp='1327755438' post='1516271']
I half like it. IIRC they had to stop making the sharkfin headstock because someone else trademarked that shape (possibly showster) which is highly disappointing.
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Hello Ancient Mariner, fancy meeting you here!
Our original JBD headstock is still available on the JBD-100 as a special request item and is currently standard on the offset-design JBD-800 six string and also the new JBD-800 four-string bass, and the JBD-200. In fact, earlier this month I ordered a new JBD-100 for myself and requested that it have the older style headstock. I've never liked the 'new' pointy headstock that they've been putting on the later 100 models, feeling that is inconsistent with the more rounded lines of the guitar in general, but I had little to say about that development, so there it is. The newer, pointy headstock was originally created by me for the concept design JBD-1000 model, which is yet to be built (if ever). No one, to my knowledge, has ever contested the headstock designs that are used on the four JBD models being produced.