Epiphone Zakk Wylde ZV Custom Electric Guitar (Ebony)

The Zakk Wylde ZV combines two of the most distinguishable guitar shapes into one. With a it’s double-cutaway “SG” top-half allowing for complete fingerboard access and it’s radical “Flying-V” bottom-half for extreme attitude, the ZV has an aggressive look like no other. As with Zakk’s signature Les Pauls, the body is carved from solid Mahogany and fitted with a glued-in hard Maple neck. The combination provides for deep, rich tone with added brightness and sustain that only comes with a set-neck guitar.

To compliment these tone woods and provide the kind of high-output necessary for Zakk’s style, The ZV is equipped with a set of EMG-HZ humbuckers including a HZ-4 pickup in the bridge position and a HZ-4A pickup in the neck position. Controlling the two pickups are a Bridge Pickup Volume, a Neck Pickup Volume and a Master Tone with 3-way pickup selector. This combination allows for almost infinite tonal variations. Adding to the sustain of the instrument, the ZV uses Epiphone’s new patent-applied-for LockTone™ tune-o-matic that “locks” the bridge on the posts and makes string changes a breeze while a string-thru body design ensures ultimate string to body vibrations.

Zakk has always preferred a natural, satin-finish neck and the ZV is no exception. With it’s SlimTaper™ neck profile, it’s as smooth and as fast as Zakk himself. Both the neck and the Grover™ equipped, six-on-a-side headstock are bound to create a smooth and finished appearance while “LP custom” mother-of-pearl inlays adorn the headstock and the 12” radius Rosewood fingerboard. Epiphone’s new StrapLocks are standard equipment making sure that this beast stays on it’s leash – even under the most extreme stage situations. To add the final touch to this one-of-a-kind axe, a custom-designed, fitted hard case with ZV-inspired artwork and metal chain handle round out the package.