Jennifer Batten's guitars

(Left): Jennifer with MJ on stage in one of his legendary tours, back in those years, Jennifer main axe was an Ibanez guitars. (Right): One of Jennifer's Ibanez guitar, hang on a column for exhibition.

Brand: Ibanez
Neck : Ebony
Fingerboard: Rosewood with 22 frets
Controls: 1 Master volume, 1 Tone knob and 5 way switch blade
Pickups : Seymour's JB Jr's in the bridge (she's been using this pickups since 1985)
Bridge: Original Floyd Rose


Currently, Jennifer are using Washburn guitar (she even has her own signature series)

Brand: Washburn
Neck : Unknown
Fingerboard : Rosewood with 22 frets
Body : Basswood body (bolt on neck)
Color : Natural
Controls: 1 Master volume, 1 Tone knob and 5 way switch blade
Pickups : Seymour's JB Jr
Bridge: Original Floyd Rose

Akira Takasaki's Killer guitars

Another of Akira's Killer guitar back in the 1980's

KG-Prime Mosaic
Brand/Model and Name : Killer guitar
Neck : Hard Maple and V shape
Fingerboard : Maple with 22 frets (length scale 648mm)
Body : Maple wood
Color : Mosaic
Controls: Master volume and pickup selector switch
Pickups : LQ-500 (Bridge) and Dyna-Bite (Neck)
Bridge: Original Floyd Rose

KG-Prime Red Flame
Brand/Model and Name : Killer guitar
Neck : Hard Maple, Through Neck with Wheel Truss Rod
Fingerboard : Hard Maple with 22 frets (length scale 648mm)
Body : Ash Top / Mahogany Back
Color : Blue and Red Flame
Controls: Master volume (Pull-Tap) and pickup selector switch
Pickups : Seymour Duncan SH-2 Jazz (Bridge) and Symour Duncan TB-14b (Neck)
Bridge: Original Floyd Rose

KG-Prime Rasta
Brand/Model and Name : Killer guitar
Neck : Hard Maple and V Shape
Fingerboard : Hard Maple with 22 frets (length scale 648mm)
Body : Ash Top / Mahogany Back
Color : Oil painted RASTA
Controls: Master volume and pickup selector switch
Pickups : LQ-500 (Bridge) and Dyna-Bite (Neck)
Bridge: Original Floyd Rose

KG-Prime Ice Burn
Brand/Model and Name : Killer guitar
Neck : Hard Maple with wheel Truss Rod
Fingerboard : Hard Maple with 22 frets (length scale 648mm)
Body : Acrylic Resin
Color : Clear
Controls: Master volume and toggle selector switch
Pickups : LQ-500 (Bridge) and Dyna-Bite (Neck)
Bridge: Original Floyd Rose

Link:

http://www.killer.jp/

SRV's Lenny

Fender SRV's Lenny Signature series with his name written on the guitar case


The late Stevie Ray Vaughan's with his second favorite guitar - Lenny

Brand/Model and Name : 1965 Fender Stratocaster (Lenny after Stevie's wife Lenora "Lenny" Vaughan)
Neck : Charvel maple guitar neck (a gift from "ZZ Top" guitarist Billy F Gibbons).
Fingerboard : Originally a Rosewood fretboard but change it to Maple
Body : 1965 Solid Alder wood
Color : Originally 3-color sunburst but it was refinished
Pickups : Fender 3-single coil

Extra notes:

The “Lenny” story is a love story. Love for a woman and love for a guitar.

- His wife, Lenora "Lenny" Vaughan, gave him a used Stratocaster guitar on his 26th birthday that had recently caught his eye in an Austin, Texas, pawnshop.

"... there was something about it (Lenny) that clearly and immediately resonated deeply with Vaughan. That guitar really grabbed him" - Lenora "Lenny" Vaughan

- After receiving the guitar that night, as Lenora slept, Stevie wrote a new song on it. In the morning, Lenora remembers, "He was sitting on the edge of the bed with the guitar and said, 'Listen to this.'" He played her the song he had written that night, "Lenny," and she cried.

- Stievie received a new Charvel guitar neck as a gift from his friend and "ZZ Top" guitarist Billy F Gibbons. Vaughan installed the neck (with a maple fingerboard) on "Lenny", at which time he also etched his name into the guitar's neck plate as a point of pride.

- In 1983 breakthrough album, Texas Flood, The song "Lenny" appeared on Texas Flood and was featured regularly in Stevie’s live set. Whenever he played it in concert, he would set aside his beloved "Number 1" Stratocaster and pick up "Lenny" (the guitar).

- In 1985, Stevie was invited to play the national anthem at the Houston Astros season opener. Stevie confessed to his wife that he didn’t know how to play the Star Spangled Banner. Watching her husband play the national anthem there to a packed house in the cavernous Astrodome, Lenora turned to the guy standing next to her and said, "You know, he didn’t know how that went (song), I had to hum it to him on the way here." Turns out the guy next to Lenora was Mickey Mantle (the greatest baseball players in history), this is where Mantle autographed "Lenny" the guitar rather then a baseball bat.

- Stevie slept at night with one arm around Lenora and another around "Lenny" the guitar.

- Lenny’s most notable feature is a batwing shaped inlay behind the bridge, believed to be from a 1910 Italian mandolin pickguard.

- The original 1965 sunburst finish was removed by heavy sanding, giving Lenny a much more rounded, smoother and softer contoured body than any Strat guitar before or since.

Link(s):

http://www.fender.com/features/lenny/

SRV's Number One

This first two pictures were the original SRV's #1 Fender Stratocaster


The right SRV #1 are Fender SRV signature series guitars while the left SRV #1 is a perfect replica (notice the SRV stickers are the same as the right picture).

Brand/Model and Name : 1959 Fender Stratocaster (Number One or #1)
Neck : 1962 D shaped Maple neck, fattest neck Fender made
Fingerboard : Rosewood
Frets/Nut : Jumbo size Fretwire and Nut replaced with Fender style made of bone
Body : 1963 Solid Alder wood
Color : 3-color sunburst front and back
Pickups : Fender 3-single coil 1959
Bridge-Tremolo : Left handed steel Fender Synchronized Tremolo, Gold plated hardware added in 1986.

Extra Notes

• The headstodck on #1's original neck had been damaged by Stevie himself. He had attempted to recreate a trick he saw his brother do by bouncing the guitar off the wall and catching it. The headstock split when Stevie attempted this. The headstock was taped up and later repaired.

• The fingerboard had worn down due to the number of refret jobs over the years. According to the Fender® Custom Shop, upon examination of #1, the neck had been repaird after it was damaged in an accident while on tour. The original neck was replaced with a neck from one of Stevie's other guitars, and then later by a neck from Fender. The original neck was put back on after Stevie's death.

• There is a hole that was patched on the right side of the bridge/tremolo plate. This is either a mistake created when attempting to install the left handed tremolo or this is the hole that will be left as the left handed tremolo arm is now located on the left side of the bridge/tremolo plate.

•Stevie used very heavy gauge strings and his set-up had the string action very high. This combinded with the large fretwire gave Stevie his signature guitar tone.

• The stickers for the block SRV letters and the Custom sticker were items Stevie would find at truck stops.

• Stevie's guitar tech would use heat shrink electrical tubing to reinforce the strings where they cross the bridge plate and travel through the body. This was a point of the greatest friction and caused strings to break. So the tubing helped allieviate the friction.

• Stevie's pickups were sheilded and there is also information stating there was a dummy coil installed to help with ground buzzing, which single coil pickups are prone to.

Link(s):

http://www.srvguitar.com/