Anyone seen a MX250 with two screw truss rod cover?
Anyone seen a MX250 with two screw truss rod cover?
I know they exists because Hetfield has a few. His wolf to man explorer has a tulip shaped two screw truss rod cover. Just wondering if anyone here has ever come across a MX250 with the tulip style two screw MX220 truss rod cover? I have a feeling it was a transitional thing and I bet if any ever got out it was maybe a handful. Maybe Hetfield was the only one who got a few?
Well i am suspicious of the paint finish seems not up to quality for what i have seen others to orange peal for me.
No number on headstock but yes in pick up cavity 801 number,
I have not playes it at all sat in case on top or wardrobe , I cannot get a responce form guitars collector Mr Rapparini , He also has a 220 with a step heal
Thats a black MX220. My friend had one like it but with a rosewood board and it got stolen out of his storage. I'm actually going to start another thread of it with pics.
That's an MX220 body, I am talking about an MX250 body with two screw truss rod cover. If you look at the ESP twitter account they have a pic of Hetfield's wolf to man and you can see it up close there.
Some real hack work on changing out those tuners from Gotoh's to Sperzel (if they even did that) by leaving those deep tooling swirls on the face?! I supposed it could be just excess string winding and scratching. The tech doesn't care but I wonder of James looks at that and goes, "Dude!!! WTF are you doing?!"
Tondog wrote:Some real hack work on changing out those tuners from Gotoh's to Sperzel (if they even did that) by leaving those deep tooling swirls on the face?! I supposed it could be just excess string winding and scratching. The tech doesn't care but I wonder of James looks at that and goes, "Dude!!! WTF are you doing?!"
Looks like the tech used those string winders when putting on new strings. Thats what happens over time using those.
What makes it especially strange is that the drawing for the headstock must have changed at that time because the location of the screw hole for the bottom would normally be missing on a current MX, but all of the 220's, and apparently really early 250's, must have kept that extended area there where the screw would mount. The truss rod cavity must have moved back?
I know that it changed sometime in 1990-91 they went from two screw to one screw. I even had an MX220 that was made in 1994 grey sparkle, dot inlay and it had a single screw bell truss rod cover. My guess is the tooling changed sometime in 1990 to 91. Perhaps they went to CNC so that is why the neck/truss rod cover hole changed.
simo666 wrote:Ahh a 250 with 2screw cover very rare was this a 1990 era one, Makes me wonder if any of the special ones live the snake inlay are the same
Hetfield took deliver of this well into 1991 after the black album was released. Look at year and a half in the life of Metallica, he also has a MX250 dot with two screw truss rod cover.
I have seen one like that before. I think it was made sometime in the 90s with that truss rod cover. I saw someone selling a black 1990s MX-250 a few years ago with that truss rod cover but wanted 7k for it. I think I talked him down to 6k, but didn't pull the trigger. It was the only one I've ever seen forsale with the 2 screw like James'. It ended up being a 1995 or 1996.