Zebra returns home!

[Dave L]

I´m not a V-man myself, but I´d play that any day of the week. Congrats!

[Danacus]

That is one sweet King V. I am jealous

[Johnnyryche]

Holy Crap! Jani, that is awesome. The zebra logo is very cool. Congrats.

[RR0849]

Thanks for all the kind comments!

Hey Jani, what is the story behind it anyway? I'm interested to learn how this all transpired!

In short... One of my holy grails in guitars was/is the Jackson zebra/white bengal KV in the 1989 catalog. I tried to find a similar guitar everywhere and in early 2003 this one popped up on Ebay. I made a deal with the seller and the guitar was all I had hoped for. Sadly later on we ran into some financial trouble when we bought our current house. We had to pay for new plumming and under the preassure I stupidly sold some guitars fast including the zebra KV. Back then I only had 3-4. I missed the guitar ever since and Ari loved it so much he didn't want to sell it back. Two weeks ago I visited Ari's home in Karstula and saw the zebra again. I loved it even more than before and soon after told Ari that he can just about pick any guitar from my collection if the Zebra comes back home. Last Tuesday I visited him again with a punch of guitars and we made the trade for my newest guitar - the Matt's Music Alexi Laiho Custom Rhoads. I guess You can judge by that how much this guitar means to me.

Here are some more info and pics:

http://www.jacksonguitarpalace.com/J5259/index.htm

When I first got this guitar I wrote this song with it:

http://ca.regionline.fi/unitar/mp3s/treasure.mp3

The title is Long Lost Treasure which kinda fits when I think of it now.

[Danacus]

Man, that gutiar is so kick ass. King V's are awesome, but that finish and matching reversed headstock is the ultimate as far as I am concerned.

[VoiceX3]

Beautiful KV!!!! I don't normally like stripes, but zebra on a KV is SWEETTTTTT! Especially the matching headstock & logo....crazy!!!!

[max]

Beautiful guitar. The zebra pattern looks cool but the zebra Jackson logo eats the cake!

[DumpyWumpy]

Man I want to see some pics of the Alexi RR that you traded! Haha, that's a damn nice King V though man! I didn't even think that the Alexi guitars had been built yet? I haven't seen anything about them posted on the forum, unless I totally missed a huge thread or have been living under a rock for the past 6 months...

[zeegler]

Awesome King V!!!

[mattv]

sweet v man!

[kinde69]

CONGRATS JANI!!! I´m happy that zebra ran back to home