Manson Delorean

Delorean Manson

Manson Delorean
Manufacturer	Manson Guitars
Used	2001–2005
Body type	Solid
Neck joint	Bolt-on
Body covering	Aluminum
Wood	Body: mahogany Neck: birds-eye maple Fingerboard: rosewood
Bridge	Fixed
Electronics
Pickup(s)	Neck: Seymour Duncan Hot P90 Bridge: Kent Armstrong Motherbucker Roland GK-2a MIDI pickup
Special circuits	Z.Vex Fuzz Factory MXR Phase 90 Graphtech Ghost acoustic saddles via preamp Roland GK-2a MIDI pickup internal kit Three-way toggle killswitch

Background

Although officially called "Manson Delorean", the guitar is known to fans as the "Silver Manson".

Hugh Manson on the Delorean

"Matt came to the shop and asked me to make a guitar for him. He had a definite idea of what he wanted it to sound like. We reached the body design through a combination of me drawing and him pointing and we got there pretty quickly, I think there was just a slight alteration on the top horn. In terms of the aluminium finish, that was an interesting one. I plated the whole thing and thought, 'My God, I'm gonna have to polish this and that's gonna be a nightmare.' It was all covered in really rough file marks and looked industrially atrocious. I was summoning up the energy to take it home and spend a week flattening it down and polishing it, but before that I took it down to the shop to show the lads how it was going. By fluke Matt turned up at the shop that day and I said, Why don't you have a look at the work in progress? He looks at it and goes, 'Oh wow, I love the finish!' I thought, That's brilliant, exactly what I want to hear."

Additional Information

This guitar featured in the "Hyper Music" music video and the "Dead Star" music video.
Matt let me have a go on it during the Hyper Music video shoot, until some arsehole took it away from me :( --crazybobbles 01:04, 21 April 2008 (BST)

Touring

This guitar has been retired from live use since the start of the Black Holes and Revelations tour.

Songs used for (pre-Black Holes and Revelations tour)

Links

Manson Delorean on the Manson Guitars website

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