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

[Maiden Australia]

Found em.

 

[Maiden Australia]

If you find the photo we can probably see, judging by the finish or so.

found it

 

[Maiden Australia]

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.

Found it

 

[matic22]

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Found em.

This guitar is gloss white, while the 8431 prototype is matte white. Could be one of the prototypes, but definitely not the first (8431).

 

[Maiden Australia]

This guitar is gloss white, while the 8431 prototype is matte white. Could be one of the prototypes, but definitely not the first (8431)

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.

 

[matic22]

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.

 

[sea.of.madness.1986]

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Found em.

Probably this guitar was another prototype and Jackson had it ready for Adrian in case something happened but he never received it. And as it was said, this guitar is gloss white, so it ain’t one of Adrian’s guitars.

 

[sea.of.madness.1986]

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.

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.