This King V might have been a prototype of some sort of Dave’s, and it was probably used so he can get a feel of what he wants on one of his custom guitars.ĭave ordered this guitar from Jackson with his own demands and ideas of how the guitar should look and play. Nice Guy” – although without the stickers. This might mean that Dave prefered slimmer neck profile than the original, or he just wanted to sand down the “sticky” lacquer.ĭave played this guitar from around 1986 to 1989, and it was featured in the video for “No More Mr. A few photos also indicate that some work has been done on the neck, because they clearly show that the back of the neck was sanded down. The guitar was finished in white, and featured Humbucker-Single-Single pickup layout, Kahler 2300 Tremolo bridge, and it had a couple of stickers on it. This is one of the first Jacksons that Dave ever played, and it came around the same time Dave got the endorsement deal with Jackson. Current whereabouts of the guitar are unknown. The two original pickups were replaced with Bill Lawrence humbuckers (most likely L500s), all of the gold-plated hardware was kept, and Dave continued played the guitar as a regular 6-string, even though it was built to support 10 strings.ĭave also had a couple of stickers on it: one featuring the logo of the Sex Pistols, a “FEAR” sticker, and another circular one just below the bridge with the word “whining” written on it.Ĭhris Poland supposedly sold the guitar without Dave’s knowledge around 1986, which eventually resulted in him being fired from the band. This guitar was used in the very early years of Megadeth, and almost surely on at least some of the stuff on “Killing Is My Business… and Business Is Good!”. This guitar started out as natural Koa Bich, but Dave decided to repaint the whole thing black. It’s unclear what happened to this guitar in the post-Metallica period – he might’ve used it on some early Megadeth stuff, but we have no information that could point in that direction.ĭave played this guitar from around 1984, up until 1986/87 when he completely switched to Jacksons. We only found one picture of Dave actually holding the guitar, and it seems that his model was finished in cherry sunburst, and had a maple top on mahogany body, maple neck with dot inlays, as well as Ibanez Super 58 humbucker in the neck, and Ibanez v2 in the bridge. Our guess is that the guitar was brand new, since the Destroyer model was in fact released that same year following a lawsuit form Gibson against Ibanez for copying the design of their Explorer guitar. Also, Dave did not use the extra 4 strings that this guitar was built to support.Īt some point in the early 80s Dave repainted the guitar black (more info on this below).Īccording to an interview Dave gave at the 2015 NAMM, he played a Ibanez Destroyer at the time he joined Metallica in 1981. This was the guitar that Dave played with Panic, during his short affair with Metallica, with Fallen Angels, and (most likely) on some of the early stuff with Megadeth.įirst photos of Dave playing this particular guitar go back to around 1980, and based on them – the guitar had natural finish, neck-through body design, two white uncovered Seymour Duncan humbuckers (most likely – at least according to 2015 NAMM interview with Dave), and a fixed bridge. The guitar was finished in tobacco burst, and featured two white uncovered humbuckers.
He played it in the very early days with his band “Panic”, before switching to a B.C. This was one of the first electric guitars that Dave ever picked up.
Nowadays he’s mostly plating the Dean VMNT model Dave Mustaine’s Electric Guitars: Unknown Les Paul Copy In 2003 he switched to ESP guitars, and 3 years later he made a final decision to switch to Dean guitars.
In 1991 the Jackson KV Pro model was officially introduced as Dave Mustaine signature model, and was the first guitar to feature Dave’s favorite set of pickups – Seymour Duncan TB-4 and SH-4. In the mid 1980s he switched to Jackson guitars, more specifically the Jackson King V model, which eventually became one of his signature guitars. In the early days of his career Dave mostly played his B.C.
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