This Diablo 4 guitar is probably the coolest piece of game merch I’ve seen in a while; just looking at it gives me pangs of agony knowing that I won’t own one myself. To celebrate the launch of its landmark RPG game, Blizzard has teamed up with Jackson guitars to craft a stunning, custom-made, special edition Diablo 4 Kelly that calls to me, knowing full well I can’t answer. Presumably Andariel, the maiden of anguish, is lurking somewhere, laughing at my torment.
Designed by Jackson’s principal master builder Pasquale Campolattano, this limited-edition Jackson Kelly features the famous shape you know and love in a rich, obsidian-stained mahogany strewn with lashings of the freshest bright red blood. It’s adorned with hand-painted artwork of Lilith by artist Dan Lawrence, and features custom rune designs inlaid on its fingerboard.
It’s “a guitar that we were trying to create to represent Diablo,” associate game director Joe Piepiora says of the axe, “thick, heavy, something explicitly designed to crush enemies, and that would look cool when covered with gore.” It certainly wouldn’t look out of place in the hands of the various Diablo 4 classes, that’s for sure.
Along with its mahogany body, the custom Diablo 4 Kelly features a quartersawn maple neck, an ebony fingerboard, and stainless steel frets. It’s rocking a hand-shaped custom heel contour, a recessed Floyd Rose original tremolo with FU Tone titanium upgrades, and dual active EMG Humbucker pickups, and it comes with its own custom case to complete the look.
“How metal is it to collaborate with Diablo and just make something demonic? It just seemed like a match made in hell,” Camplattano says of the project. I couldn’t agree more. With just ten of these models
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