Brave New World With a decade of guitar making behind it, .strandberg’s new NX level Boden is both modernistic and superbly detailed. Oh, and it’s headless, too Words Dave Burrluck Photography Olly Curtis 90 GUITARIST DECEMBER 2021 GIT479.rev_strandberg.
.STRANDBERG BODEN ORIGINAL NX 6 REVIEW .STRANDBERG BODEN ORIGINAL NX 6 £1,664 CONTACT .strandberg WEB https://strandbergguitars.com What You Need To Know 1 C’mon, it’s not the April issue… Haha… Headless guitars aren’t new (even Les Paul had one, we believe), but they are associated with their heyday in the 80s thanks to Ned Steinberger. And for many of us classicists, they just look wrong.
REVIEW .STRANDBERG BODEN ORIGINAL NX 6 2 2. Your eyes aren’t playing tricks: like all .strandberg guitars, the Boden is multi-scale (635mm to 648mm) and as a result the frets are fanned 3. These new Rev7 bridge pieces are machined from aircraft-grade aluminium.
VIDEO DEMO http://bit.ly/guitaristextra .STRANDBERG BODEN ORIGINAL NX 6 REVIEW UNDER THE HOOD Modern in style, but what’s inside? R emoving the 3mm thick aluminium backplate, which also holds the output jack, you might expect to see a modernist circuit board. But no, things here are pretty conventional.
REVIEW .STRANDBERG BODEN ORIGINAL NX 6 4 4. It might be a featurepacked design but the controls are simple: a very smooth-tapered master volume, with treble-bleed circuit, and tone. The Schaller fiveway Megaswitch selects either humbucker or a selection of single-coil voices 5. Best described as having a trapezoid profile, the patented EndurNeck is designed by Ola Strandberg.
VIDEO DEMO .STRANDBERG BODEN ORIGINAL NX 6 http://bit.ly/guitaristextra REVIEW .STRANDBERG BODEN ORIGINAL NX 6 6 The neck shape takes adjustment, but we were so absorbed by what we heard we almost forgot about it So, while it could be argued that the sounds are the most conventional part of the guitar, they’re well done. The control knobs are very neat and the controls are very smooth in taper. The volume has one of the best treble bleeds we’ve come across.
