The rosewood ’board has been displaced in favour of ebony, which Dave has used since his Jackson days, and it features 24 medium jumbo frets as opposed to the standard 22. With rounded wings, a mahogany body and a glued-in neck, the core of the V remains intact, but the similarities with the main American range end there. Some changes may prove more controversial than others, but controversy has been a familiar companion for Dave Mustaine throughout his entire career. That isn’t the only change made, as in almost every respect his new guitar is a different instrument to the classic korina Flying V of the 1950s and indeed today’s USA line – right down to the strap button placement. This is the company that did, after all, invent the design.īut while Dave didn’t rejoin Jackson’s roster, he has brought part of Jackson with him: the very un-Gibson 25.5” scale length of his trusty King V has been deployed for this new signature model.
So it’s little wonder that his first collaboration with Gibson is a signature Flying V. Mustaine has been indelibly associated with the Flying V shape for decades, perhaps none more so than the jet-black ‘King V’ Jackson he used during Megadeth’s most commercially and artistically successful period in the 90s.
I was playing in Panic, the band I was in before Metallica, and I wanted so badly to have a legitimate Gibson guitar but it was out of my price range.”
“But I think anybody with a right mind would be able to tell, because I play Vs and Explorer-shaped guitars. “Nobody really knows how much I grew up secretly coveting Gibson products,” he explained.
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