Strat fat heads look cheap for some reason.

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I prefer the smaller headstock, but really as long as it isn't broken i'm good

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Small headstock looks much nicer to me.

like couple other posters here, i grew up on blackmore ..hendrix...trower..clapton.. and it was the design of the large headstock the way the fender name was black and bold running along the headstock is what got me deciding if i ever got to get a guitar i want a fender stratocaster with that kind of headstock. closest to this day of owing one was a mustang i bought around 80 or 81 somewhere in there when i was teenager. (sold it about 2 months later)

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I like the look of the BIG headstock, but I do own both styles.

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I didn't Lose my mind, I traded it for this guitar.

I actually like the big headstock a bit better than the smaller.
I do like the even-smaller Tele headstock.
This picture is great! It's proof that Leo created the Large Headstock (giving it some early tests on the Jazzmaster and Jaguar before giving it to the Strat). Calling it "CBS" makes it sound like we're "blaming it on" the bad old corporation ... Leo was still around designing things (like the 3 bolt microtilt) for years.

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My other guitar is a Strat.

Read a few posts up, I was utilizing the same word as another person. Notice the word is capitalized. I should have capped it as a quote instead. I like the big headstock too.

RK

Being a cheesehead Packers fan, I say that Cheesy is a good thing!

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My other guitar is a Strat.

Cheezy schmeezy

What matters. The way the neck plays or what the tuners are planted on? 80% of the music recorded with strats is cheesy.

Sometimes a bit of cheddar captures your tastebuds.

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I saw an interview of Robin Trower in U tube about his custom shop strat, and comments that he opted 4 the large headstock because more wood = more resonance.
I personally like and have them both, but the larger headstock if it´s an original vintage one like my 79 (it´s an 81) I reallly don´t like the pale white large headstocks on recent HW1´s.
Recently just built my custom ash strat and had the option of an original 79 neck or an original 95 plus deluxe neck, opted for the plus deluxe cause it´s like an old vintage neck.

Definitely pre-CBS. I know cosmetics are purely subjective, but I can't stand those big headstocks. Another thing I like about the pre-CBS necks is the mass of them. I just prefer thicker necks. I know, off-subject. Had to throw it in though. Give me a maple baseball bat with the top flattened out to a 12" radius and the biggest frets you can find. I'll play it all day long.

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My first guitar was a Squier, and I like the big headstock. It screams '70s, but I think it looks funky in a good way.

But I like the smaller headstocks too, they seem more sophisticated and classy.

My favorite non-Fender headstock is the one on my Peavey T-60. I just think it looks really cool. It's sort of Fenderish, but different.

What I don't like are Tele headstocks. Don't ask me why, I just don't. It wouldn't be enough stop me from playing a Tele though.

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Doesn't really matter to me on the strat's. The Tele's don't look right with the big headstocks though. Seen a few Tele's with that 70's style and they just dont fit the body.

Love the 70's Headstock... but am not partial to it, I love my '62 AVRI neck with the small one too.

That means that you love it, but you don't like it?

I bet you drove your significant others crazy!

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My other guitar is a Strat.