Dweezil playing Ed's old "Rasta" guitar.

[Diamondjimi]

I'd heard that . But on closer inspection it looks like he did a complete repaint before the green,yellow and red based on the positioning of the black reveals...
Never seen the pic. of the body by itself. Great find bro!

[Diamondjimi]

One wonders, does the puke in the neck pocket add extra mojo?

Puke= +

[jhale667]

Classic!

[Diamondjimi]

[GAR]

Hmm.. if the Rasta is truly the Unchained guitar, Dweezil's sitting on not one million-dollar guitar but TWO.

I kinda pick out some vague stripes approximating the Unchained. If this is really the case, the Rasta finish could be sanded down to the original Unchained.

It can be done. Back in the 80s when I used to go hang out at the North Hollywood Gibson West Coast custom shop, there was this mysterious "black-over burst" '59 Flamey Les Paul that the director was painstakingly wetsanding down to the original burst finish. I saw it when he had about 20percent revealed.

(It was found in South Africa, then made its way to the NoHo shop for resto..)

Now back then, an original 59 would go for 10 or 15 thousand, so that kind of meticulous work was worth it.

If the Unchained finish was block-sanded, wetsanded and polished back to original, todays' price might rake in a quarter mil.. but if Dweez could beg a neck off Ed to go with it just the private offers alone over 1mil would come nonstop.

Nobody cares about the Rasta finish. True, it makes a distinctive claim "two VH color themes in 1 piece of guitar memorabilia" but the second-famous EVH color theme from the second-most favorite VH tune of just about any VH fan you ask on the street is what makes the guitar.

The Rasta finish is totally negligible and obstructs the true potential of this guitar, the only way we've known of it is from a couple backstage photos published in a guitar magazine in 1982. Was it Hit Parader I think?

[Diamondjimi]

Lemme guess, you've had this one in your hands too. Except it had better tone before he repainted it...

I'm truely surprised you haven't done a road trip to Arlington Tx. and dug up Dimebag to nick Ed's original "Bumble Bee". Hey, I'm sure you could make a few bucks by wetsanding and polishing up Dime's KI$$ Casket®... Dumbass!

[GAR]

Lemme guess, you've had this one in your hands too.

Not that 1 no.

[Diamondjimi]

There ya go. Just wanted round off your "groaned at" count to an even 1600...