custom ordered Orville Les Paul Zakk Wylde Shattered Glass ex-Pictures

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*For now it's priced to sell. However the moment something gets sold again, it'll be back up where it belongs, sorry.

So I thought for my next Vintage Zakk Wylde collectible, to do this beauty, also featured in that old Japanese magazine, just like the Rebel.

Work done again on an old Orville LP, which as everyone knows, were using the Gibson headstock at that time, being a daughter company of theirs. So for this one, I took a 1992 Orville LPS-80F CS made by Fujigen, though I honestly don't know what the CS stands for (see warranty pic).

This model is truly a special one. Zakk used to call it the "Broken Mirror". I'm saying "used to" because it looks completely different now (he's recently made it to look like one of Jimmy Page's more colourful guitars, it's currently called "Pope Page Dragon").

He used to play it on various occasions. BUT, as history knows it, even though the internet hadn't been fueled with much information at the time, and if we are to believe various sources, this is one of the guitars that Zakk had prior to joining Ozzy Osbourne. It is supposedly the very same guitar he took with him on the audition for the spot in the band. It was originally finished in Tobacco Sunburst, but Zakk wanted something original so he had it custom-painted by a guitar luthier to feature a shattered glass design. The guitar is mostly known for its appearance on the early photo sessions of the Ozzy Osbourne band in 1987, done by Mark Weiss. This guitar went through countless mods. At one point it had pictures of all of Zakk’s musical heroes and bands, favourite musicians glued to the body, essentially a Led Zeppelin memorabilia but also others, and some time later it was completely stripped down to bare wood.

The pictures you're seeing here were found in an old magazine from back when they used to display all his gear. Yet, the actual pictures applied by Zakk on his guitar, couldn't be found anywhere that easy! And so it took a lot of hard work and extensive searches to find them, basically because you can't quite tell what's in each of those pictures (bad 80s pics quality).

The pickups are exactly like the ones in the original guitar: white EMGs and ivory colored frames.

So to clarify: this model actually represents a stage in the life of one of Zakk Wylde's beloved guitars. Only his ultra-die-hard fans know about it.

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