Signed by Rudolf Schenker

This specially ordered Custom Shop Flying V '67 is signed on the pickguard by Rudolf Schenker of The Scorpions. This amazing guitar weighs just 7.10 lbs. and has a nut width of just over 1 11/16 inches and a scale length of 24 3/4 inches. Special custom 'all-gold' mahogany body and one-piece mahogany neck with a wonderful medium profile and with rosewood fretboard with 22 medium frets and pearl dot position markers. Headstock with white plastic truss rod cover with three screws and the "Gibson" logo in gold. Individual GroverRotomatic tuners with half-moon shaped metal buttons. Serial number "9 2403" stamped in black on back of headstock. Two very hot '57 reissue PAF Humbuckers with outputs of 7.97k and 7.73k. Three-layer white/black/white plastic pickguard. with thirteen screws Three controls (two volume, one tone) plus three-way selector switch. The potentiometers are stamped "R137 9751" (CTS, December 1997). Black plastic bell-shape "Bell" shaped knobs. Nashville Tune-O-Matic with metal saddles, 'stud' tailpiece. All hardware gold-plated. Rudolf Schenker has signed the guitar in black marker on the bass side of the pickguard. On the treble side of the pickguard the "Scorpions" emblem is engraved in black. There are two very small 'indentations' on the edge of the bass wing - but the guitar is still mint. Housed in its original Gibson Custom Shop brown hardshell five-latch case with maroon plush lining (9.50).

We contacted the Gibson Custom Shop and they gave us the following entry from their shipping ledger: 891034 Specially ordered 1998 '67 Flying V Rudolf Schenker with gold hardware Product ID: "CS FV RS GH"
(Custom Shop - Flying V - Rudolf Schenker - Gold Hardware).

Rudolf Schenker (born August 31, 1948) is a German guitarist and founding member of heavy metal band The Scorpions, being the rhythm/lead guitarist and one of the main song-writers of the band. After starting out with a Fender Stratocaster, Schenker is primarily known for playing Gibson Flying Vs of which he has a very large personal collection. In most Scorpions songs, guitar solos are performed by lead guitarist Matthias Jabs, but there are exceptions, in which Rudy makes the solos, such as "Wind of Change", "Always Somewhere", "Still Loving You", "As Soon as the Good Times Roll", "Through My Eyes" "Coast to Coast" (second solo) and Big City Nights." (Wikipedia).