Could be debated endlessly, but one of the very best guitar solos was Gary Moore’s “I Got The Blues for You” live. Arguably the “best” guitar face as well. The history of his guitar, “Greenie” with its “mis-wired” neck pickup" is also very interesting. I suppose Kirk Hammett having it today is “okay”. I have a hunch Joe Bonnamassa would have more appreciated it. Then again…
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Yeah, but he’s sitting high and wearing a strap. 
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I’d settle for his talent…
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And finally…
I used to have an original Gibson Flyting V back in 1980 but could not justify that type of expenditure right now, then I saw this at a local guitar shop in town.
Nothing too special but it is a USA Gibson and the price was very right and, oh well you know how that goes…
2011 Gibson Melodymaker Flying V with a Wilkinson bridge and Seymour Duncan Dimebucker pickup.
Looks nice in a simple ebony satin finish.
No more pointy guitars…at least for now…
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At least Hammett uses Greeny. Used it quite a bit for Selfwired… and uses it live when playing Whiskey in the Jar.
Something a bit different up next, a Hohner G3T Spirit headless guitar. I bought this for a very specific reason, I wanted a small guitar that I could play in my cluttered garage without worrying about bashing the headstock or damaging the guitar. This fitted the bill perfectly and was not expensive (used via eBay).
The guitar may look familiar to those with long memories because it is effectively a cheap licensed copy of the original Steinberger headless guitars made in the 90s. Those were expensive carbon fibre composite guitars with very fancy ‘Trans-Trem’ systems. This is not! It is all wood with a licensed simplified Steinberger trem which does nothing fancier than being lockable.
It has a tapped humbucker and two single coil pickups (from memory) and of course requires double ball ended strings. Tuning is done (rather stiffly) via the base of the bridge.
It does have one major advantage over all similarly shaped guitars, a pop out knee rest so that it can be played sitting down. Such a simple addition but it makes all the difference. Guitar strap mounting points are at both pointy ends of the base so they act as feet too as well as making it easy for left handers to use.
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So I named these ones after getting Barry (the SubZero baritone) on the left, Brucey the Bass VI (Jack Bruce played one), and Dickie (the non-reverse Fire)Bird - also named after Richard, the chap I bought it off who passed away a few weeks later.
That last one is a Gould copy, which has a Tanglewood Bigsby copy fitted-and although a cheapo is actually my favourite guitar I have ever owned. I fitted it with a Fishman TriplePlay wireless MIDI pickup recently, which has really transformed the way I write and record my music-now making big arrangements with brass and string parts in a way I never could do with a keyboard.
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I had a similar model years ago, when I was travelling to London from Newcastle each week for 2 academic years to attend Royal College of Music. I grew to quite like it, especially the sound-and it’s featured on a couple of my older ‘demo’ tracks on Soundcloud.
Never played a ‘V’ myself - but it looks like it will have what I really like about my non-reverse firebird copy, total access to the neck. Do they balance well? I’ve played a lot of SG copies that do the old headstock dive as soon as you let go of the neck (which is one reason I have never liked them).
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They do balance well while playing it stood up with a strap but they are terrible to try and play sitting down…lol.
You have to stick the v around your leg and makes only one real position to play.
The Aria is actually a much nicer guitar to play TBH. In fact I have found most vintage Japanese guitars from the 70,s if in good shape and set up right are a delight to play.
And that Tokai V is a lot nicer to play and better tone than my Gibson V.
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Newly acquired Gibson Les Paul Studio.
Traded a turntable for this…
Got to get it cleaned up and tuned up and then some better pictures but these will have to do for now.
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Nice! I keep threatening to get myself a LP - maybe as a retirement present. Except I can’t afford to retire!
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Of course some unkind souls will say, oh it’s “only a LP Studio”, 
I came out way on top with this deal and when it’s cleaned up it will sit next to the Flying V.
Retirement?
I’m pretty sure death will occur first 
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Some slightly better pictures, I might have to take outside to get some pics that really show of the antique wine red.
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Great Studio in phenomenal color. Do you know the year? Have you weighed it?
Have you seen this?
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Great color
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Ok, I’ll admit, I bought another Emerald Guitar. It started with my Carbon X20 but once they started to offer the HyVibe System a sneaky X7 Parlour Guitar came into my life. HyVibe is insane, an active acoustic guitar…
I think of it as the X20 being my Mercedes and the X7 HyVibe, the fun sporty runaround…
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This looks awesome.
I’ve always felt that Gibson do a poor job promoting this model because user-generated pictures always look better than the official ones.
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Now that’s sweet!
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