Gibson Zakk Wylde Flying V Custom with Floyd Rose Tremolo vs Ibanez Steve Vai JEM77FP Signature Guitar - Floral Fabric Print

The Gibson Zakk Wylde Flying V Custom with Floyd Rose Tremolo and the Ibanez Steve Vai JEM77FP Signature Guitar - Floral Fabric Print are both electric guitars. The Gibson Zakk Wylde Flying V Custom with Floyd Rose Tremolo leans sustaining and tight. The Ibanez Steve Vai JEM77FP Signature Guitar - Floral Fabric Print leans transparent.

Similarity
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51% — moderately similar

Shared genres
citedGenres both listings are associated with.
  • Rock
  • Electronic
  • Metal
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Description

The Gibson Zakk Wylde Flying V Custom with Floyd Rose brings Wylde's aggressive metal playing style to Gibson's angular V body, fitted with a Floyd Rose locking tremolo for the dive-bomb and pitch-bend techniques common in his lead work with Black Label Society and his years alongside Ozzy Osbourne. Unlike Wylde's more famous bullseye-finished Les Paul Customs, this V-shaped guitar trades the Les Paul's fixed-bridge sustain for the tuning stability and expressive whammy-bar range a Floyd Rose provides, paired with active EMG humbuckers for the same high-output, low-noise metal tone found across most of his signature gear. It represents a less common but genuinely distinct branch of Wylde's overall guitar lineup, built for a different playing style than his stop-tail Les Pauls support.

The Ibanez JEM77FP is a Floral Fabric Print variant of Steve Vai's signature JEM line, applying an actual printed floral fabric pattern to the body rather than a standard painted or hydrodip finish, giving it a soft, textile-inspired look distinct from the swirled, marbled finishes found on other JEM variants. Like other JEMs in the 77-series, it carries the model's core features: pointed body horns, a monkey-grip handle, a Lo-Pro Edge tremolo built for Vai's extreme whammy-bar technique, and DiMarzio Evolution pickups voiced for his wide dynamic and technical range. The floral print represents one of the more visually unusual entries in a guitar line already known for pushing far beyond conventional guitar aesthetics.

Genres
citedGenres this gear is documented as being used in.
  • Hard Rock
  • Experimental
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Tonal lean
  • sustaining
  • tight
  • transparent
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