Order your Ace Frehley "Budokan" Les Paul Custom now

In the image of the original Les Paul Custom, the guitar has a four-piece maple top glued to a mid-’70s “sandwich” body made from a middle and back section of solid mahogany joined by a thin maple veneer, with no chambering. My second love is computer animation. At the end of Black Diamond, I designed the morph for the show, I digitised the four album cover faces, and I did a morph from one face to the other, and I just looped them. It looks real cool.

The top is hand-sprayed in nitrocellulose to give it the same Heritage Cherry Sunburst finish as the epiphone ace frehley budokan original, with 150 hand-aged to match the wear of the existing guitar. The three-piece mahogany neck has been made made to match the original’s thin profile. Decorative elements include mother-of-pearl block fingerboard inlays, multi-ply body and headstock binding, mother-of-pearl Gibson headstock logo and split-diamond inlay, and a cream pickguard.