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Boden Essential by .strandberg*: Headless Guitars Go Mainstream

The .strandberg* Boden Essential is an affordable headless guitar with a conventional-scale neck. Photo credit: .strandberg* Guitars.

ABOUT .STRANDBERG* GUITARS

.strandberg* Guitars from Sweden was founded by Ola Strandberg in 2007.

Ola has a Mechanical Engineering and IT background and he wanted to design the best ergonomic electric guitar possible.

Over the years, .strandberg* Guitars became a highly trusted manufacturer of ergonomic headless guitars which were often also multiscale and extended range.

Much experimentation yielded comfortable guitars featuring maximum resonance and musical articulation in conjunction with negligible energy loss from string vibrations.

Initially, such instruments were expensive to produce.

Ola wanted to bring ergonomic headless guitars to the masses though, and the Boden Essential guitar is the result.

According to .strandberg* Guitars: "Ola Strandberg's new challenge was to develop a new Boden model that would bring the costs down but without compromise to retain all of the essential features of what made Boden the gold standard of headless guitars."

Unlike most .strandberg*, the Boden Essential does not have a multiscale (fanned-fret) configuration. This gives the player a gentler learning curve and helps to keep the instrument's cost low.

MAIN SPECIFICATIONS

  • Body: Meranti
  • Neck: Roasted maple
  • Neck profile: EndurNeck™
  • Fingerboard: Rosewood
  • Frets: Jumbo stainless steel
  • Fret system: Straight-scale
  • Scale: 25.5"
  • Fret markers: Inlays and Dots, Glow-in-the-dark
  • Weight (approx.): 4.75 lbs.
  • Hardware: Cast zinc
  • Nut: Plastic
  • Pickups: 2 Humbuckers, Strandberg OEM
  • Designed in: Sweden
  • Manufactured in: Indonesia

The Boden Essential has made a huge splash. It gives players an easy entry into the world of headless ergonomic guitars without the learning curve of multiscale (fanned-fret).

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Strandberg Guitars AB
Uppsala, Sweden
info@strandbergguitars.com
+46 18 24 78 89

TEXT AND IMAGE CREDITS: Courtesy of .strandberg* Guitars.

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