Dave Mustaine Gibson V review…

I agree it’s not a pretty guitar.
It looks like they took a Flying V, a classic explorer hockeystick headstock. Put it in a blender and regurgitate this thing. Then they put some thought into how to make it look worse. And they came up with .. whatever you want to call that inlay pattern.

And poor Dave has to endorse this thing.
 
I've sat here trying to figure out what it is that I hate about this and it took me a while to figure it out.

First, i thought it was the headstock but that's just a standard Gibson Hockey Stick like on the Explorer, as well as technically the same design as Jackson, just less sharp. So no, its not that.

Then I thought it was the Tune O Matic Bridge but no, because most Gibson Flying Vs have that same damn bridge, save maybe the vibrola and V string thru plate. So again, it isnt that.

Then I figured it was the control layout. While its a setup I've never seen really before, its kind of an augmented Explorer 3 knob layout with the switch between the Neck Volume and Tone. So, kinda this?

But I finally figured out what it is that I despise: they tried incorporating elements of Jackson and Dean into a Gibson. The rounded wings are Gibson, the hockey stick on a V is inspired by Jackson and the inlay is a lot like the Dean.

This thing is a Frankenstein: not cool like EVH's Frankenstein, more like Frankenstein's festered, swollen anus.
Send it to the Firebird X graveyard, under the excavator tracks.
 
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Clockworkmike said:
I've sat here trying to figure out what it is that I hate about this and it took me a while to figure it out.

First, i thought it was the headstock but that's just a standard Gibson Hockey Stick like on the Explorer, as well as technically the same design as Jackson, just less sharp. So no, its not that.

Then I thought it was the Tune O Matic Bridge but no, because most Gibson Flying Vs have that same damn bridge, save maybe the vibrola and V string thru plate. So again, it isnt that.

Then I figured it was the control layout. While its a setup I've never seen really before, its kind of an augmented Explorer 3 knob layout with the switch between the Neck Volume and Tone. So, kinda this?

But I finally figured out what it is that I despise: they tried incorporating elements of Jackson and Dean into a Gibson. The rounded wings are Gibson, the hockey stick on a V is inspired by Jackson and the inlay is a lot like the Dean.

This thing is a Frankenstein: not cool like EVH's Frankenstein, more like Frankenstein's festered, swollen anus.
Send it to the Firebird X graveyard, under the excavator tracks.
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It’s the Pontiac Aztec of Vs. :pound-hand:

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