![]() "It had a simple elegance to it," says Jackson. This version of the guitar had a much more distinctive shorter lower wing, making the upper wing much more pronounced. He delivered it to Randy on December 27 during the final rehearsals at Zoetrope. Meanwhile, in his San Dimas factory, Jackson had the second guitar built and completed. Full stage rehearsals were conducted at Francis Ford Coppola's Zoetrope studios in Hollywood before everyone headed to San Francisco to begin the tour. #THE MOST EVOLVED SEPT 24TH 2011 GUITAR TAB NOTES FULL#Having done that, he began planning the building process while Randy went off to begin the first leg of the 1981 Diary Of A Madman tour with Ozzy overseas.īy the time the tour landed in the US a couple of months later, manager Sharon Arden had built the Ozzy Osbourne show up to major headline status by investing in full production staging, lighting and tour staff. The electronics were similar to Gibson specs: two volume and two tone controls located on the bottom wing of the guitar.īy the end of the day, Jackson had shaped the wood according to the pencil drawings and handed it to Randy so he could hold it and see how it felt and what it would look like. As Sandoval states, "It's a good thing that you have a flux circle magnetic field underneath the strings." The pickups used on this guitar were a DiMarzio Super Distortion in the bridge position, and a PAF in the neck position. Routing for the pickups presented a minor problem because the string spacing of the Gibson-style bridge position pickup was narrower than the width of the Fender tremolo bridge. It's a square neck going into a square neck pocket, but you've got a lot of surface area when you clamp it with wood glue. There's actually more wood that extends out and supports the neck. I have an extension of the neck underneath the existing neck where the neck pocket is and you shape the body around the neck. Sandoval hit upon a unique way to position the neck and glue it to the body that incorporated the surrounding support: "I came up with a very simple neck pocket glue-in system. ![]()
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