Jackson has as soon as once more teamed up with metallic guitarist and former Black Dahlia Homicide man Brandon Ellis, this time on a monstrous 27-fret shred machine, the KE27.

Adopting the model’s Kelly form, the Professional Plus Sequence Signature Brandon Ellis Kelly KE27 arrives as the newest addition to Ellis’s signature line, and is designed for “crushing tone, large output and high-performance playability”.

Chief on the guitar’s spec sheet are 27 stainless-steel frets, providing gamers entry to the intense excessive registers of the fretboard. There’s additionally a Seymour Duncan Signature Dyad Parallel Axis humbucker within the bridge place – which boasts a novel hybrid coil design with a singular bar magnet – and a PA-STK within the neck place, a top-mount Gotoh GE1996T double-locking tremolo system, and a putting Gold Crackle end personally chosen by Ellis himself.

Elsewhere, the guitar sports activities a nyatoh physique with a through-body maple neck with graphite reinforcement – plus a shawl joint for enhanced maintain and stability – a 12”-16” compound radius’ board for “pulverising velocity”, with black sharkfin inlays, a Floyd Rose R2 nut, three-way toggle swap and Dunlop dual-locking strap buttons.

Regardless of the additional frets, the KE27 boasts a scale size of 25.1”, inside the typical vary of 24.75” – 25.5” of most electrical guitars.

“The KE27 has actually developed into a very totally different guitar in its personal proper,” says Brandon Ellis.

“Whereas the primary iteration was constructed on the usual Jackson Kelly spec, this one options significant customisations to just about each side together with 27 stainless-steel frets, a customized 25.1” scale size, top-mount Gotoh tremolo and my signature Seymour Duncan Parallel Axis Dyad pickup, which is in any other case solely out there as a Customized Store mannequin. After I decide this guitar up, I’m simply in awe. It performs like a customized store guitar and has a novel really feel and sound all its personal.”

“Ellis’s new signature is as uniquely designed as his sound,” says Peter Wichers, Product Supervisor of Jackson.

“It options customized appointments tailor-made particularly to him, together with 27 frets and his customized Seymour Duncan Dyad Parallel Axis bridge pickup, the very components that outline his distinctive tone. This signature provides gamers the instruments to faucet into that sound.”

The Professional Plus Sequence Signature Brandon Ellis Kelly KE27 is priced at $2,199 / £1,799.

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Sam is the Affiliate Information Editor for Guitar.com and MusicTech. Totally immersed in music tradition for almost all of his life, Sam has performed guitar for 20 years, studied music know-how and manufacturing at college, and in addition written for the likes of Guitar World, Complete Guitar, Steel Hammer and MusicRadar.