It looks to me like as if someone "refurbed" parts of the guitar. *If you notice the neckplate has no oxidation on it, yet the screws holding the neck to the body are badly oxidized. *
There are kiosks in the mall that will do the engraving on plastic or whatever the truss rod cover is made of. *If that's a special over-seas model, it's pretty darn lame that they would only put the cheesy truss rod cover on it.
I wonder, does the serial number actually read "XXX" or is he just using an X as a variable? Who knows where he got that number from. *A lot of the FPs had serial numbers on both the headstock and the neckplate, but to my knowledge, none of them matched.
Is it common to try to avoid belt
buckle rash by covering the back of the guitar with plastic?
It looks like it is in great condition, IMHO, it's worth about a grand. *But nothing special about it at all. *Good idea to have Vai sign the body under the pickguard though, but he needs to back off the screws on the pickguard a bit. *
