Tool’s Adam Jones Unveils Epiphone Les Paul Guitar Featuring Artwork by His Wife Korin Faught
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Adam Jones has teamed up with Epiphone for the Les Paul Custom Art Collection. The latest guitar in the collection features artwork by the Tool guitarist’s wife, Korin Faught.
Faught’s original painting “Sensation” adorns the back of the fifth guitar in the collection, perhaps the crown jewel of the new Epiphone line. The stunning piece first premiered as part of the “Lost Days” exhibition in October 2016 at the Corey Helford Gallery in Los Angeles.
“‘Sensation’ is a painting about the loneliness and isolation of illness,” Faught mused via a press release for the guitars. “‘Sensation’ is a word to replace a fear based word. A word she learned while preparing for childbirth. A word she could retreat into when lying in bed with only herself and her thoughts. Gentle meditative properties and calmness resonate through her body as she lives within the moment.”
The other artists whose work is featured in the collection include Mark Ryden, Frank Frazetta, Julie Heffernan, and Ernst Fuchs (with additional artwork designed by Korin Faught adorning the back of the headstock of each model). Five models have been released so far, with two more yet to be unveiled.
As for the axes themselves, the guitars in the collection are a new take on Adam’s No. 1 guitar: his prized original Gibson Silverburst 1979 Gibson Les Paul. The signature models have a bound mahogany body with a maple cap, a three-piece bound maple neck with an Adam Jones Custom profile, and an ebony fretboard.
The guitars are equipped with a reverse-mounted Epiphone ProBucker Custom humbucker pickup in the neck position and a Seymour Duncan Distortion in the bridge (both wired to CTS potentiometers and Orange Drop capacitors). A Marquee Back Plate with the artist’s name and the name of the artwork is also included.
Each model is limited to 800 pieces and retails for $1,299 via Epiphone’s website.
Meanwhile, Jones will head out on a fall North American tour with Tool beginning in early October. Pick up tickets here.
Below you can see a promo video for the guitar featuring the Korin Faught design, and see product photos of each model.
Tool’s Adam Jones Unveils Epiphone Les Paul Guitar Featuring Artwork by His Wife Korin Faught
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