Lol another Reverb leak: Epiphone Kirk Hammett Flying V (black and purple)

[HeHasTheJazzHands]

 

[Masoo2]

ooooooooooooo the purple

 

[cardinal]

Bridge looks unusual?

 

[Crungy]

It is kind of chonky looking... The purple one is sick.

 

[HeHasTheJazzHands]

Bridge looks unusual?

It's based on the Alembic bridge on his original V.

 

[HeHasTheJazzHands]

It is kind of chonky looking... The purple one is sick.

It's the 2nd time Epiphone does a proper '76-style V, the other one being the Dave Rude V.
That one from the '90s doesn't count it's ugly as fuck lol

 

[soul_lip_mike]

Where’s the reverb link op?

 

[HeHasTheJazzHands]

Where’s the reverb link op?

Idk, I saw the screenshots on twitter and stole them lol. They're from a dude I trust though

 

[HeHasTheJazzHands]

Oh for the curious:

$1299

 

[USMarine75]

Comes with Gibson T-type pickups and a case. Price is actually decent. Plus I dig the SN stamped like a Gibson.

 

[HeHasTheJazzHands]

I'm impressed how accurate they were to the real thing. Down to the T-Tops, Stars guitars bridge, and even the late '70s/early '80s headstock.

 

[zw470]

*desire to Seek And Destroy intensifies*

 

[Hollowway]

Love the purple one, but I had pickup rings on pickguards. I know that’s a thing, but it always strikes me as redundant.

 

[HeHasTheJazzHands]

Love the purple one, but I had pickup rings on pickguards. I know that’s a thing, but it always strikes me as redundant.

There was actually a utility to them. Given Vs still had the neck tilt of other Gibsons, the rings helped angle the pickups. Not to mention you usually had to have pickups set stupid fucking high due to said neck tilt.
I also believe the neck tilt issue was even *worse* on those late '60s - early '80 Vs.

 

[Hollowway]

There was actually a utility to them. Given Vs still had the neck tilt of other Gibsons, the rings helped angle the pickups. Not to mention you usually had to have pickups set stupid fucking high due to said neck tilt.
I also believe the neck tilt issue was even *worse* on those late '60s - early '80 Vs.

Oh wow, I didn't know that. Well, now I hate them less, lol. I'm generally not a fan of pickup rings, but the pure vitriol is really reserved for 7 and 8 strings. If there's a purpose to them, and they're on 6 strings (and if it's a classic design) then I don't mind so much. That's interesting about the neck tilt!

 

[Yul Brynner]

The thing about those 70s Vs is that there was zero neck tilt. The fretboard was like half an inch or more up off the body. Which looks like it's not the case from the side pic of the purple one.

But they finally got all the rest of the shit to look like a proper 70s V. I would take it over the current horse shit Gibson USA is calling a "70s" V.

But being a Kurt Hammond model it will probably be 2k European dollars.

 

[Yul Brynner]

I really really really want the black one just because it's the closest thing to a full 70s spec reissue V outside the custom shop.

But I honestly couldn't care less about the metallica signature part. I'm sure that by itself adds a few hundred.

I wonder if it will be the same as the custom shop doing runs of 70s Vs after they made his original custom shop version. Maybe it's worth waiting for them to do Epiphone 70s V runs in different colors with the proper bridge, pickup covers, witch hat knobs, and without the poker chip and pickup rings.

A silver burst 70s Epiphone V would literally be right up my back alley.

 

[HeHasTheJazzHands]

The thing about those 70s Vs is that there was zero neck tilt. The fretboard was like half an inch or more up off the body. Which looks like it's not the case from the side pic of the purple one.

But they finally got all the rest of the shit to look like a proper 70s V. I would take it over the current horse shit Gibson USA is calling a "70s" V.

But being a Kurt Hammond model it will probably be 2k European dollars.

Yeah I couldn't remember the specifics of the neck angle, just that the necks were set much higher than they are nowadays which also has to do with the fact those '70s-spec Vs were also pancake thin. So yeah, the pickup rings were there to remedy a design flaw.

Your guitar heroes (Kirk Hammett, James Hetfield, KK Downing, Michael Schenker, Andy Powell, etc) had to use those rings to solve a flaw, and then you got guys like me that grew to love the look *because* of them and it just stuck lol

 

[Marked Man]

I can't see purple for myself, but the black one is cool.

I haven't kept up with Ephiphone in ages. How good are the recent MIC ones?

 

[jephjacques]

I hate that shade of pastel purple that everybody is doing these days, but the rest of the guitar owns