Chiba666
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Those Amotts were great, had a black one but the scale just never felt right for me, I’d love that as custom with a 25.5 scale
The Best V Guitar Of All Time.
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Manurack
Nunavut Inuk
I remember going to Axe Music in Edmonton, Alberta one year when I was 17/18 and I tried out the first run Michael Amott ESP Ninja with the metal mirror pickguard and I LOVED it. I didn't mind the shorter scale length at all. The body seemed much bigger than the DV8 Sig. I wanted it so bad, but couldn't afford it.
The next version of Amott's signature that came in dark red with a Floyd Rose and 24 frets was absolutely BEAUTIFUL!
After Amott left ESP and joined Dean, his signature guitar with Dean looked like absolute shit...
The next version of Amott's signature that came in dark red with a Floyd Rose and 24 frets was absolutely BEAUTIFUL!
After Amott left ESP and joined Dean, his signature guitar with Dean looked like absolute shit...
I gotta agree..those Dean Amott sigs need some milk
Estilo
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I'd always had in mind to get one of the 600 series Amott LTDs eventually when I was planning to stay on in Australia. But life took a different path, I came back home and gear supply is lame here.
The Dean Amott Sigs are just meh. I like him and the band enough though, and had they stuck with the ESP/LTD specs and they came up for sale here I might just get one for the heck of it but they wont even put the SDs on.
The Dean Amott Sigs are just meh. I like him and the band enough though, and had they stuck with the ESP/LTD specs and they came up for sale here I might just get one for the heck of it but they wont even put the SDs on.
Accoun
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I actually like the shape quite a bit, but can't get over the finish. To put it bluntly... why can't they just be normal?
Yeah Dean REALLY needs to stop with the fucking graphics
Spaced Out Ace
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Everyone: "Enough with the shitty graphic finishes."
Dean: "Printer goes brrrrr."
Dean: "Printer goes brrrrr."
soliloquy
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to be fair, dean does have the tyrant tin man, which has no graphics
along with the burgundy
TonyFlyingSquirrel
Cherokee Warrior
My fave, had this in 1983, wish I never parted with it.
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to be fair, dean does have the tyrant tin man, which has no graphics
along with the burgundy
Yeah, that's fair. But I guess on a personal level they still miss me. Tin Man ain't my thing completely and I don't vibe with the thick colored bevels in Burgundy (or some Jackson Vs, for example).
Still - a step in a right direction, I guess?
gunshow86de
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foreright
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^ That's got to be a strong contender - if it were purple (and 7 string!) then absolutely perfect.
Stolen from his brother. Mike started with an LP but borrowed Rudy's 71 medallion V and never returned it.
This was the third guy after James and Kirk who convinced me that 70s Vs were the fucking shit.
Manurack
Nunavut Inuk
Just watched this gem of a music video again and I thought of this thread. The lead guitarist is playing Neal Moser Custom Shop Bastard V and I love it!
Has anyone watched Metal Lords on Netflix? The vocals of the kid in the Netflix movie sounds almost identical to this dude playing the Jackson!
Has anyone watched Metal Lords on Netflix? The vocals of the kid in the Netflix movie sounds almost identical to this dude playing the Jackson!
ShredmasterD
Calls it like it is.
jus throwin this out there cuz V 
or maybe Y
works0fheart
Tike Myson
Alexi's ESPs (at least the non-USA ones, fuck the horrible lower wing on the USA models) definitely were an improvement re fret access and overall comfort of the design, but the paintwork and inlays lose some of the mojo for me.
You can't beat the thin bevels + sharkfins IMO. The dream is the ESP shape with the Jackson aesthetics
These 2 guitars man. I'm admittedly very much a fanboy, but when I saw that white scythe for the first time back in like '04 or '05 I was completely blown away. Then I went further back through 'Bodom's catalogue and learned of the WildChild guitar and the other custom Jackson's they used to have and that was the be all end all for me. A big majority of Alexi's signature models have been sick: The katakana, the pinky, the blacky, the black w/white glow in the dark, the arrowhead, the hexed, the ripped. Really the only two stinkers were the Greeny and the Wild Scythe.
There are a lot of other cool V's out there, and it's my favorite shape by far, but these 2 guitars will always be the standard that I hold other V's to. The Caparison Orbit is pretty cool, so is the Amott Ninja, the DV8, and the old Mustaine KV's with the Kahlers, to name a few. The Oli Herbert Rhoads was pretty sick too.
Still, for me, a lot of people get the shape wrong. The Kiesel/Carvin ones where the fins are backwards drive me nuts. While I like the Gibson V, the spinoffs of it by other brands are pretty atrocious, especially that Vulture thing that James plays now days.
Captain Shoggoth
Gotoh 1996T shill
Feel very similarly to you. I feel the fact that you and I met originally on the UM Bodom forums speaks for itself
Don't care for the Amott Ninja or the Orbit although the Cazqui sig is pretty baller. Gibson Vs have to have the 67 style pickguard for me. 67 is a top 5 guitar design, 57 style is lesser and I lose interest entirely without a pickguard.It does tickle me how particular we are compared to the rest of the population though. I played my Alexi fanboy RR24 at a non metal show recently. My most metal friend there, who I met at a BTBAM concert and plays guitar himself, was just like "woah, flying v, that's so you"
