This was the last guitar Lynch was to receive from Charvel. This is where the beginning ideas for the ESP Kamikaze idea came from, housing a bridge pickup directly bolted to the body and a single coil in the neck position. The headstock is reversed and the neck is 1 11/16" wide at the nut. Though the guitar had a chrome Floyd Rose tremolo, the locking mechanism is not of the Floyd variety. It is a Kahler lock piece that is positioned behind an existing nut. Until the 1990s, Floyd Rose locking nuts were bolted to the neck from behind, after drilling two counter-sunk holes for the allen head bolts.
According to Jim Matthews, then factory supervisor at Charvel's San Dimas plant in 1985, designers at Charvel/Jackson believed that drilling through the headstock to bolt the Floyd Rose nut to the headstock weakened the headstock joint. They also claimed the nut area is highly stressed, hence, placing the lock piece behind an existing nut was a better overall solution.
This guitar was highly visible during the "Under Lock & Key" tours of the fall 1985 through 1986, predating the appearance of the ESP Kamikaze in the late spring of 1986.
