Jackson King V KV2

In terms of sound, no other guitar beats the Jackson King V KV2. The sound is so powerful that I put up with the numerous factory problems that came with the guitar.

Alder body, passive Seymour Duncans, 24 frets, V-shape and original Floyd Rose tremolo - you can't get more metal than this with any guitar.

Despite the fact this is an expensive American guitar, it has a very unstable neck. I have to adjust the truss rod almost every month to keep the proper neck curvature.

Because of poor shielding, this guitar had excessive pickup noise when I stopped playing. By accident, when I removed the back plate, some of the noise went away. Very bizarre behavior. My gut feeling is that the material the back plate is made of was creating some kind of interference between my body and the electric parts. Additionally, I had to shield some of the internal parts with aluminum foil to reduce the pickup noise.

Notice on the Floyd Rose that I have metal shims under the saddles (easier to see under the 1st and 2nd saddles). Shims allow me to adjust the action of each string individually.

Nice add-on, so I won't lose the allen wrenches for the Floyd Rose system.

Killer painting job. With direct light, you get a beautiful bright blue. With indirect light, the guitar is almost black. In fact, on some of my YouTube videos, the guitar looks almost black.