GS Gallery

Steinberger USA guitars (1991-1996) with a newly designed composite neck with headstock, also featuring the newly designed Gearless Tuners (editor's note: Jeff Babicz calls it the "best neck" for its optimized shape and slightly increased width, with a little more space around the high and low E string). This guitar is the only Steinberger instrument with a working TransTrem (a slightly modified version for tuning on the headstock) which doesn't require calibrated strings.

The design of the guitars was aimed at progressive/metal guitarists who still didn't bond with the headless concept. Brett Garsed, Steve Miller and Bumblefoot belong to the most notable players. Unfortunately, the timing was somewhat bad for successful sales, as the "shredding" guitar era was almost over, followed by Grunge, which reqired just the opposite of a "high tech" guitar which the GS definitely was.

According to available information (including my serial number database), about 316 GS type guitars were made. Of those 316 guitars, 187 came with a TransTrem (GS-7T or GS-Pro), and 111 with a Z-Trem. The rest is GSX models (with Gibson hardtail bridges or the Steinberger JamTrem) or just separate necks.