vintage pearl export custom guitar ( with a bullet in the head )

[ufoclub]

I bought this vintage pearl guitar at a flea market.
the guitar sound good and plays well
but..
the guitar has a round hole that pierces the headstock, the hole was then closed with a piece of wood and nacre.

what is for is a hole in that point of the headstock?

I thinking about when in the 80s, labels gave vinilys at the radio or as a promotion, but they made a hole in the cover so as not to resell them?
to hang it up ?!

[simonm]

i've got a guitar that had an extra hole in the headstock also - right in the middle and smaller than yours though - that hole looks like it might have been used to hang the gtr?
Is there any wear around the hole? dunno otherwise.

[jreeves47]

ha like a record/cassette/CD cutout

[ufoclub]

yes the guitar has some minor wear around the hole,
but from what I could understand the guitar comes from a musical instrument shop and the hole has always been there,later it was closed by a luthier.
perhaps it was a promotional or demonstration product, it seems not played much, the guitar is like new, apart from the hole :)

[Dr Tony Balls]

I wonder if it was some sort of indicator that the guitar was not for resale. Like when radio stations got copies of records and they had a hole punched in the sleeve or the corner snipped off. Maybe it was a product demonstration item given to a shop and not intended to be sold? Interesting nonetheless.

[Jim Goad]

Maybe it was used as decoration in a bar or venue. I’ve seen guitars with holes drilled where they were bolted to ceilings or walls.