“James played it on the last record, and I know it will be on the next record. “That guitar has taken its lumps over the years (like many of us) but it is alive and kicking despite its inability to stay in tune,” said Chad. We recently spoke with Hetfield’s longtime guitar tech, Chad Zaemisch, about the guitar: It was used on Kill ‘Em All and some subsequent albums. The guitar wears the scars of years of abuse and some custom etchings by Hetfield himself, including a middle finger on the back, a skull and crossbones on the headstock, and the iconic ‘Fuck It’ on the front. Its original burgundy finish had been painted over with white nitrocellulose lacquer by the time it found its way to James. The guitar underwent some minor alterations, with the original pickups swapped out for Seymour Duncans. READ MORE: The history of the Gibson Flying VĮlectra made these Flying V copies from 1974 until they were discontinued sometime in the early 1980s.But we won’t criticise him too much – he was young, and it was the third guitar Hetfield ever owned. In hindsight, he probably should have known it wasn’t a Gibson – the bolt-on neck should have been a dead giveaway. As it turned out, it was an Electra Flying Wedge Model 2236 with a Gibson truss-rod cover on the headstock. Early on in his musical career, James Hetfield bought a guitar for $200 under the guise of it being a genuine Gibson Flying V. We’ve all (probably) made some unfortunate gear purchases in our lives.
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