Shredders rejoice! A classic is back! One of our most requested custom paint jobs and guitar combinations is now available in the Handcrafted Icon Shop. If the stunning hand-painted thunderclouds and lightening were not enough, the custom paint job also features subtle “ghost bolts” that when viewed from different angles seem to make the lightening undulate and strike. Bolted onto this Gunslinger are high-end parts such as DiMarzio, Floyd Rose and Grover.
A number of B.C. Rich guitars use a classic Bolt-on construction. On these instruments a neck (typically maple) is bolted on with 4 screws to the body. This construction offers some added flexibility in the instruments adjustment and provides the option to change the neck in the future.
This pickup started a sound revolution. Replacement pickups simply didn't exist before the invention of the Super Distortion® in the early Seventies. The Super Distortion® (and its original 3-conductor version, the Dual Sound®) was the first pickup specifically designed to kick a tube amp into total overdrive, and is still the standard by which all other high-output pickups are measured. The Super Distortion® has a perfect blend of power and tone: both single-notes and chords jump out of the amp and fill the room (or the track) with a wall of sound. The balance of tones is classic-thick, boosted mids, big lows and fat highs. This is the sound you've heard for over three decades on platinum records, from players as varied as Ace Frehley, Al Di Meola and Paul Gilbert. It's also versatile: 4-conductor wiring allows instant access to Strat®-like split and series-parallel modes. Discover what thousands of great players know: the Super Distortion® is the best all 'round high-power pickup ever made. Tech Talk: When we first built the Super Distortion®, it was a one-conductor pickup. As a 4-conductor pickup, it's extremely versatile. Coil-splitting produces a very Strat-like option, both in tone and power. Parallel wiring is similar to splitting, but it's still humbucking and a little more hollow-sounding; Paul Gilbert used to use two Super Distortions® wired in parallel when he was in Racer X.
The flat top styling gives a bold and pristine look to the edge of the instrument's shape. Usually when the flat top feature is used, B.C. Rich adds a stripe of single or multi-ply binding around the edge in a complementary color. The binding on a flat top finishes off the edge cleanly and gives a sleek and clean look to the instrument.
Construction: Bolt-on Body
Body wood: Alder
Top style: Flat w/ arm rest contour
Top wood: none
Body binding: none
Stringers: none
Headstock style: Reverse Pointed
Headstock color: Black
Headstock binding: none
Tuners: Grover Mini Rotomatic
Neck wood: Maple Bolt-on
Back of neck: Natural, Satin Finish
Neck binding: none
Fretboard: Maple
Inlay: Diamond, Black
Frets: 22 jumbo
Scale: 25 1/2”
Bridge type: Original Floyd Rose
Pickups: Dimarzio Super Distortion (bridge)/ Fast Track (neck)
Controls: 1 volume/ 1 tone/ 3 way toggle
Hardware: Black
Finish: Black w/ Lightning Sky Graphic
