7-string paddle?

[jjwu]

Any brave souls take one on? My questions: is the headstock tiltback? is the string pull over the nut straight? how was shaping your own headstock? pics welcome!

Only reason I'm considering it is because their normal 7-string doesn't have straight pull over the nut and I want to use a trem without locking nut. Would be immensely sweet if they narrowed the headstock to fix that. It'd look better too imo. Plus shave a few grams. I'm probably the only person on earth who digs BOTH unusual scale lengths, likely its main impediment to popularity. :,(

 

[NedRyerson]

I haven't seen anyone who posts regularly here talk recently about 7s, let alone customizing a 7 neck. I'm working on my 3rd paddle neck, but those have all been 6ers. I don't play 7s; had one once, but sold it as it wasn't getting any use and I just couldn't get used to the string spacing (it was a kit guitar so the most valuable components of it were the DiMarzio pickups I installed). I have two guitars with standard scale down-tuned to B-standard, so that takes care of that low B that would otherwise be on a 7.

Current project is a baritone so I can go down further to A.

The graphics on the builder implies that the 7 paddle is a straight headstock, but that's best asked of WM customer service directly. Same with string path.

 

[TonyFlyingSquirrel]

Warmoth’s 7 string paddle is a straight string pull inline design.