Adrian, Janick and Dave's guitars and Steve's basses

matic22 said:
No. The original neck of the 8431 prototype was smashed on stage in Freiburg 2018 at the end of Iron Maiden and replaced with a new production neck. That guitar is still on tour and can be seen in the rack. The 8431 and 8432 prototypes can easily be distinguished from other Jacksons, because their colour is a different white (I'd call it more mattte white, while others are gloss white) and appear more yellowish.


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If you pay really close attention during the last chord of the song, you can see that H has smashed the headstock. There used to be a better video, but can't find it. He had sam tantrums during the German shows of LOTB 2018. He also threw the green Jackson to the floor at the end of Wicker Man in Munich.
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Also, 8431, 8432 and 8475 prototypes's serial numbers were only distinguished from an Ovation photo in 2016 which featured guitar cases with serial numbers. We know that for the first leg of SBIT, H still had Fenders as backups to 1st prototypes. Before the 2nd leg he got the 2nd batch. It's safe to assume that 8475 was built at the beginning of 2008, while 8431 and 8432 were built in mid-2007. 30-40 guitars in 6 months sounds right for a custom shop.


The 8475's sister guitar (8467) was stolen in Greece 2008.
 
Maiden Australia said:
Interesting, I still regret not smashing the glass and taking it home with me. Also on the topic of headstocks, where did the unpainted headstock on the 86s come from, and what happened to the old white headstock.
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Adrian’s 1986 Jackson had a neck with painted headstock at first, but I guess he wanted a custom headstock (modeled after a sunburst ‘57 Stratocaster he owned), and the neck with painted headstock was removed and the guitar got the new custom neck with natural finished headstock.
 
sea.of.madness.1986 said:
Adrian’s 1986 Jackson had a neck with painted headstock at first, but I guess he wanted a custom headstock (modeled after a sunburst ‘57 Stratocaster he owned), and the neck with painted headstock was removed and the guitar got the new custom neck with natural finished headstock.
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Yes. The current neck on the 86 Jackson is a custom made neck and probably because of this took time to be made. The white headstock neck was probably a production neck that was on the guitar just so H can play it while the custom neck was being made. The black Charvel from Wasted Years video was also re-necked at the time with a Jackson neck, which I assume was the same neck as the custom one on the original 86.

The original 86 was also cloned sometime in late 80s with the same specs, only it featured 1 humbucker and input jack mounted on the side. There are photos of that guitar from The Untouchables gig. I assume that guitar later got a white HSS pickguard and is featured in Road To Hell and Man Of Sorrows videos.
 
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