Zakk Wylde

Zakk Wylde's take on the classic SG shape.

On this video taken at NAMM '16 we can see Zakk Wylde introducing the brand new Wylde Audio guitars

On this video taken at NAMM '16 we can see Zakk Wylde introducing the brand new Wylde Audio guitars

On those pics we can see Zakk Wylde Playing on a Wylde Audio Odin

Dean guitar given to him by Dimebag Darrell.

Dean guitar given to him by Dimebag Darrell

He used this guitar in loudwire he played nib by Black sabbath

Artist Zakk Wylde has been seen using the Dean Splitail, a guitar of his own creation which is also produced by Gibson under the name Gibson ZV

One of Wylde's most iconic guitars next to his slough of bullseye customs, is this unique guitar - a custom '89 Gibson Les Paul which he calls "The Rebel" He is seen in this clip from a 1993 Gibson Guitar Clinic playing the guitar, with the first good shot at about 0:15.

In this Guitarist Magazine video, Zakk Wylde shows off his Zakk Wylde Custom Gibson Les Pauls. According to Wylde, All his Les Pauls are equipped, "with EMG pickups, a shaved maple neck, [and] ebony fretboard," (5:40). Wylde also uses, "6000 fretwire. It's thick and its high," he says at (5:58), "so you can get a really good grip on those things."

Wylde plays a Gibson Flying V, also painted in his signature "bullseye" design. The guitarist shows us one of his Flying V's in this Guitarist Magazine interview at (7:40). "These...with the Floyd Rose...[it's] basically a Gibson Flying V custom," he says. The guitar has an "ebony fretboard, maple neck, and everything like that."

The Limited Edition Zakk Wylde Moderne of Doom is based on the never released third member of the Modernist Series of the late 1950s—the Gibson Moderne. According to Wylde in this Music News article, "the design is from 1958. The Moderne came out about the time the Flying V and Explorer came out. All three of them were not big sellers at all. In 1958, when they came out, they were way ahead of their time with those guitar shapes." Wylde worked with Gibson to design the guitar. "With the Moderne, it’s oddly shaped, and I really like those guitars," he said. "I definitely wanted to modify it for the 21st century. It’s as thick as a Les Paul now. It has the Custom-style block inlays, the Floyd Rose, the mahogany body. They did an amazing job with that guitar."

One of Zakk Wylde's signature paintjobs, the Vertigo, is exemplified in this Gibson Zakk Wylde Les Paul Custom. The design finally came to life after a mishap when originally designing his logo. "I saw the poster from Vertigo, the Alfred Hitchcock movie, and thought that would be fucking awesome," Wylde said in this Guitar World Magazine interview. "So I explained it to my buddy Max, who ended up doing Slash's guitar, but when I went down there for the photo shoot, I opened up the case and saw the Bullseye logo. I said, 'Dude, what the fuck?' I had drawn it on a piece of paper and everything, but it was too late anyway. So we did the photo shoot, and the rest is history."

Wylde finally got the design done correctly. "It came out cool. So there's the Buzzsaw, the Bullseye and the Vertigo -- which is like a Bullseye, but 21st-century-style," he said.

Wylde shows off his ZV Buzzsaw guitar in this Guitarist Magazine video. It's an "SG and a V combination," Wylde says at (7:15). Like his Les Pauls, the ZVs come equipped with a "maple neck, ebony fretboard, and 6000 fretwire. I keep them stock with what Gibson actually sends me," he said.

Zakk Wylde plays his own custom Epiphone model, the Graveyard Disciple, spotted in this Guitarist Magazine video at (8:00). "It's pretty much like an SG, body-wise" Wylde said. "It's all mahogany, just like a...SG is. "Neck wise...either a rosewood or ebony fretboard, maple back and neck. And you know, same thing, my EMGs and Floyd Rose."

Zakk played this guitar in Zyris circa 1985, as seen in this video.

Zakk received this guitar from Ozzy in the early 80s, as a present for his birthday (most likely his 21st). It’s his main go-to guitar for clean stuff in the studio, but he never uses it live.

Zakk’s Les Paul Junior was made in 1957, and it features a single-cutout body shape with sunburst finish, and a single P-90 pickups in the bridge position.

Zakk has at least two of these, one white with the stock pickups, and other originally blank now with a mirror front plate and EMG pickups.

More recently, he also acquired a black and white bullseye EDF-1275.

This is one of Zakk’s favorite on-stage guitars. It is fitted with EMG instead of the stock DiMarzio pickups, and it has a polka dot paint-job. He mostly plays it as a homage to late Randy Roads, Ozzy Osbourne’s guitarist who used to play the same model.

Zakk has few of these, perhaps the best known one has black paint-job with white dots, which he used in the music video for “Suicide Messiah”.

Guitar given to him by Dimebag Darrel, shortly before his death. Zakk only used it once on stage to play “In This River,” to pay a personal tribute to Dimebag.

Used in the early days with Ozzy, most notably on “Mama I’m Coming Home”.

Based on some of photos on Zakk’s social pages, he still has the guitar, and takes very special care of it.

Only instance of Zakk playing this guitar is a video recorded in 1994, during Pride & Glory UK tour (Zakk Wylde Lovin Woman – acoustic).

“The first one I actually had was Gibson Pelham Blue SG Firebrand,” Zakk says, referring to a rare SG variation which was sold in the late ’70s and early ’80s, usually in a natural walnut finish and only very rarely in solid colors. “It was actually really cool. I ended up getting rid of it because I wanted to save up for a Les Paul Custom or something like that, but it was a kick-ass guitar. When I look back, I wish I’d saved that thing. It was also unusual because it didn’t have a rosewood fingerboard – it had an ebony fingerboard, and it had just round inlay markers. That was a killer guitar. I had to have been maybe 15 or so when I got it, and I probably had it until I was maybe 16, 17, something like that, before I decided I had to get that Les Paul instead.”

Our friends at EMG just published a great live video of Zakk Wylde performing the Black Label Society tune "Lovin' Woman" for EMGtv. Zakk uses his custom Epiphone Masterbilt EF-500RCCE and showcases his awesome talent with just acoustic guitar and vocals. It's Zakk Wylde like you've probably never seen him before!

In the video you can see Zakk Wylde playing an Epiphone Zakk Wylde Bullseye Les Paul Custom.

he is using a strat. not this, but some white (colored to pink) strat with HSH configuration

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