EART Headless Electric Guitar GW2 fixed Bridge for 6 String Travel Guitar For Travel and Performance Right, Stainless Steel Frets,Black

I own a dozen guitars or so and have played for 40 years. This guitar is an amazing value. The highlight is the neck. The fretwork is SUPERB. Smooth ends up and down all 24 frets on both sides (high E and low E). The compound radius of the fretboard makes bending and chording (even chords up above the 15th fret!) effortless. These features are becoming more common features on guitars, most recently with the smooth rolled fretboards of Sire guitars. But here's the thing... the backside and overall thickness of the neck also changes throughout. The combination of all of these factors make it the best playing neck on a guitar that I own. The neck joint feels tight. It is very strange to play a guitar that is so stripped down that resonates so well. It's loud and full sounding. The access to upper frets is excellent and all notes are easily reachable even for big hands like mine. The bridge is unique. Lots of ways to adjust strings. It's resonant as well, surprisingly, given all of it's moving parts. Once your strings are stretched, action is set and the guitar is tuned up... it doesn't go out of tune. It just doesn't. The body is very ergonomic. This is something that I don't require but enjoy. You can play it in a normal resting on your thigh position or in a upwards position where the headstock is pointing at the sky (Hello, Ice Cream Man solo stretched licks!). The body is cut to accommodate both positions. The pickups are ok. May be a little mushy but that is to be expected at this price point. I will say that they are far better than I expected but I will still replace them at some point, probably with a set of Duncans that will cost more than half of the price of this guitar. The knobs were very good but a bit too tall for me so I replaced them with some strat knobs and that worked. The output jack is out of the way and angled up (all guitars should be like this?) so that your chord will head towards the strap end which helps facilitate the ol' chord tuckeroo. I got the blue-USA finish and the poplar wood veneer looks and feels cool. The guitar is an amazing value. Excellent neck in every way. How is this guitar so resonant? Perfect couch guitar. Perfect travel guitar. Pickups are ok but easily replaced with a Duncan Hot Rodded Humbucker Set or whatever. Overall, at this price-point... ? Wow.

After all the (mostly positive) reviews I've watched on Eart guitars, I really wanted to give one a try. I'm also a fan of headless guitars. This one did not disappoint. Quality is excellent. Perfect fret work, no high spots, super polished. The pickups claim to be 57+ Classic PAFs. They sound surprisingly good, if a tiny bit dark and mellow. Neck feels good. The only nit to pick is the bridge tuners. They work and stay in tune well but are a bit fiddly to tune up. I actually cut off a piece of hex wrench and attached a knob so I have a better tool to turn the tuners (better than the mini crank they provide). Adjusting intonation is also tricky because you have to detune and lift up the string to get to the right screws. However, you're presumably not adjusting intonation all that often so not a big deal. I bought this as an Prime Day Lightning Deal. For what I paid, this guitar is easily worth the money and a great bargain. While I definitely have too many guitars (is that possible???), this one is fun and a pleasure to play.

Such a beautiful guitar! Didn’t expect a $1000 instrument quality when I received it but it definitely exceeded my expectations. Pickups are really nice for the price range. Almost on par with my Ibanez Iron Label pick ups(Dimarzio Fusion) The color was not the same as in pictures (not that bright glowing blue) but I’m not complaining. Fretboard is smooth, frets are extremely well rounded and polished, changing the strings are somewhat easy ( adjusting the action was a pain though). Overall, just buy it if you want a beautiful and easy to play guitar. I haven’t stopped playing with it since I got it.

UPDATE 18 August, 2024: Found a hard case which will work with this guitar for not a lot of money - Plano's 36 inch all weather case (see pics for cases): https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07B7ZMKZF?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title&th=1 UPDATE August 17, 2024 Found a resonably priced case which will hold this nicely. Most cases for headless guitars are stupidly expensive, and Eart only offers a very spendy soft bag. Gator's hard case is almost as much as the guitar, which might be okay if you are a gigging musician and ship your axe a lot. If you own one of these (or any headless) and want to try a really great bag that is actually a semi-hard case, they the Ghostfire: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CM8MTH6P?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title&th=1 Highly recommend you give it a look. *********************************************************************************************** After living with this guitar for a few days, I can say that I am quite pleased with it. The neck, fingerboard and frets live up to everything I have heard in reviews on YouTube, and it is indeed very playable. Construction is solid, the weight is very nice and light, and the stock pickups are more than adequate. The shape and small size also make it easy to play. I love the bridge and solid tailpiece setup - it is well engineered and solid. While I am not a fan of single volume and tone control setups, I understand that compromise at this price, and I know there are a lot of people who do like them. I find it limits the sonic flavors of a dual pickup guitar way too much, but in this price range, I am more than happy to accept it. A good graphic EQ should be part of one's effect chain, anyway. The colors are not as bright and vibrant as the pictures, but the finish is still nice. I was planning on getting one of the natural finishes, but when this model went on sale for around $90 off, I could not pass that up. I got it mainly for the headless design and very good fretboard with stainless steel frets, as well as the zero fret. You just don't see stainless steel frets in guitars this inexpensive (or even twice this much). I did not give them 5 stars for two reasons - one being the control setup, but the other big one is that they do not offer a hard case for it, and it is very difficult to find a hard case to fit it. Also, $150 for a soft case is a bit much. Gator makes a hard case that will fit, but it costs almost as much as the guitar. Sigh . . . . Also, the bridge, although fantastic, is a bit hard on the hand if you use a picking style that anchors part of your palm on the bridge (which I am learning). A smooth cover of some sort would be nice touch. I am already playing more, as the size of ths guitar makes it easier to keep handy, and the resonance without an amp is suprising, albeit on the quiet side, of course. It will make an excellent practice guitar, but I don't know how it will hold up to playing gigs. However, since something like 97 percent of guitar players don' t do gigs, but play informally, I consider it excellent in it's price range. Frankly, I don't know why there aren't more headless guitars. It seems like a way better design to me. It plays as well as guitars more than twice the price, and it has stainless steel frets! Not as nice as my Carvin DC-200, but then that doesn't have stanless steel frets (I wish it did). That guitar was also nearly three times the price of the Eart, and it was easily the equal of guitars twice the Carvin price, so not really a fair comparison. Well worth it, as far as I am concerned. A great guitar at this price. I think it would make a great beginner guitar.

Got one of these to try out headless style guitars on a budget, and I have to say, this thing is NICE. I absolutely Love the look of the guitar, there's some really beautiful wood grain on this. It feels great in the hands, the neck is smooth, the fretwork is easily the best out of any guitar I've ever owned. Came in set up good enough for me, all I had to do was tune it and go. The little magnetic key tool for tuning is different then what I'm used to, but works good and is easy to use. All I've done is change out the strap buttons for some locking ones just out of habit. I was originally planning on changing out the pickups as well, mostly because I'm not a fan of chrome, but I was surprised they actually sound good, so I'm keeping them. My only gripe is the pots aren't that smooth to turn, they DON'T have that awful electrical scratching sound bad pots have, they just don't feel as smooth to fiddle around with as my Ibanez or Epiphone that are in the same price bracket. maybe I'm just being picky now who knows? All that being said, I'm VERY impressed with this guitar, and I'd strongly recommend this if you're looking for a headless guitar, and don't wanna spend the 2-3k on a Strandberg. Hell, my only complaint is the pots are kinda meh, the rest of the guitar is stellar for this price. I'll be keeping an eye out for more EART guitars in the future for sure. Now to find a case...

It's as if an AI was told to scour guitar forums and collect all the features guitar nerds would want and then design a guitar. The ergonomic shape, a zero fret !!!, stainless frets, 5 piece neck...for $300. I just don't understand how. Great fret work, I love the bridge pickup, the tuning system has been stable and I love having the ball ends of the strings up at the headstump. I had to tighten the neck a bit when it arrived, but of course it has an accessible wheel so it easy. The guitar was intonated when it arrived! People were kind of down on the tuning system in the comments, once I tuned using the little crank, Ive only had to use the fine adjusters. It is heavy, and I'm sick of looking at the blue burled top, it gets tiresome. I don't like the neck pickup, seems real boomy in the midrange, (but I love the bridge). It's a very good guitar, not just cheap, very good.

I'm very impressed with this guitar. Fit and finish are very good. Set up well straight out of the box. I will do some tweaking of the set up later but I'm in no rush. That's pretty impressive for a guitar this cheap. Tuning stability seems to be very good. Tuning machine adjustments are very smooth with the provided wrench that is retained in the bridge by a magnet. I can tune it without using the wrench but it's tough and I have pretty strong hands. I like the neck pickup but the bridge is quite high output (>14K Ohms) which doesn't suit my style of music (soul and blues through hard rock like Led Zeppelin and AC/DC), but might suit a metal player. I plan to replace the pickups with cheap alnico II PAF style pickups and wire push-pull pots in volume and tone. One will give partial splits (PRS style) to both pickups and the other will reverse the phase of one of the pickups. That will give 9 different configurations. I spend a fair amount of time each year traveling for work and this should make an easy to transport guitar that is still versatile and comfortable. One of the big advantages to this guitar for me is that it's very comfortable to play in an armchair. Most guitars are not and the location of the output jack doesn't strain the jack or the cable. I have owned and quickly sold or returned a few different "travel" electric guitars because they were very awkward to play. This guitar has great ergonomics yet is compact enough to be a practical travel guitar. My only real gripe is that the case is sold separately and is quite expensive, though reviews seem to agree that it's a good quality case. I was holding off buying a case until I decided I was going to keep the guitar. Well, I'm keeping the guitar so I now I need to shell out for the case. Oh, well. Still happy with the purchase.

The guitar has cool features. The tuners are on the bridge and made of brass which is nice and unique for a headless. Tuning is easy, but switching strings can take a minute to get used to. It’s not hard, just different. Adjusting the action is a little irritating. You have a bag of tools that comes in the box that are needed to adjust a lot of the features. If you have a solid guitar Allen key set, you will be set without need of most or all the tools included. The body is comfortable for the most part, but it can definitely be a pain at times. Depending on which leg you use to rest it on and the stand you use, the pain is only as bad as the situation allows. The pickups are very subpar. They have a very cheap sound. They both seem to muddy together regardless of which of the 3 positions the switch is in. Adjusting the truss rod does very little. In the end it’s a cheap and very subpar introduction to headless guitars. If I had the knowledge I have now I would not have bought this guitar. Mine could have just been a lemon, but for some reason I doubt it. Save your money and or get a different guitar or save your money to get a better guitar. 2/10 would not recommend.