What do I have here?

[Saw]

So I got in a used DKMG (I think) it has three control knobs, volume tone and [blank], arch top and 3 way selector switch for HH setup. Came with Duncan Designed pickups (gonna switch those out). I thought these came with a reverse headstock which would suggest it's been switched out, the neck feels a lot like my Kelly neck. Almost identical. Anyone got any ideas?

[Force]

The DKMG neck also has piranha inlays. The 3rd control acted as an afterburner (boost) for the EMGs, the pups have been swapped.

[pianoguyy]

Assuming its all original, its not a DKMG.

Maybe a JS?



If you really want to know what you have and if the parts match. then take the neck off of the body. Both parts should be labeled.

[Mudlark]

Arch top, eh? The neck definitely isn't a DKMG. Don't recall a chrome trem on a DKMG, though its possible... or its been swapped. Checking the neck/pocket stamps may be the solution. Probably won't help, but what's the serial#?

[pianoguyy]

Arch top, eh? The neck definitely isn't a DKMG. Don't recall a chrome trem on a DKMG, though its possible... or its been swapped. Checking the neck/pocket stamps may be the solution. Probably won't help, but what's the serial#?

that's not the trem that came on a dkmg, even if it did come in chrome.

But, now its a memory test.
Was it the dkmg that started with chrome hardware, then was changed to black in later years?

[Mudlark]

The DK2 changed from chrome to black hardware around 2006.

[pianoguyy]

The DK2 changed from chrome to black hardware around 2006.

For some reason, my brain says that it was either the dkmg or dr3. I think the earlier dkmg had chrome. I have a dkmg with a black trem and chrome knobs and I remember thinking to myself 'isn't that tacky, why wouldn't they change both'.
No biggie, who knows, my memory isn't all inclusive either.





Could this be a dkXt, but with a trem?

[Saw]

Thanks for the help I contacted the seller and he said that yes, he'd switched everything from his Kelly. So that's the Kelly neck (as I suspected) chrome hardware, pickups, everything. At least I got me an archtop body to throw some Blackouts in. Would have enjoyed a reverse headstock, maybe next time