He used it for his Black Light Burns project and on the tours leading up to the recording of Limp Bizkit’s 2011 comeback album Gold Cobra. It also boasts Yamaha’s FingerClamp locking tremolo system, which is unique in that you don’t have to cut the ends off your strings.īorland loved the guitar. The Yamaha CV820WB features a semi-hollow body with split-field, high-output humbuckers made exclusively for Borland. The resulting collaboration was a model unlike anything Yamaha had produced before: the CV820WB. Borland embraced the idea and shouldered much of the design process. The following year, he was approached by Yamaha about creating a new signature guitar. So he took it back, and he uses these guitars up to today.”Īfter a brief hiatus from the band in the early to mid-2000s, Borland returned to Limp Bizkit in 2004. Wes gave it to PRS once and they couldn’t reproduce this tone. “Nothing could be farther from the truth. 080 F string an octave lower.Ī post shared by Wes Borland people call this guitar a baritone,” Gorodnitski adds. Borland’s custom four-string also came with an unusual set of strings pulled from both guitar and bass. The pickups are hand-wound humbuckers with alnico V magnets.Īt 26.5 inches, Borland’s custom Cremonas have a scale about an inch longer than typical Stratocasters (25.5) and Les Pauls (24.75). The bridge and tailpiece are hand-carved from aluminium billet. The Cremona typically features a flame maple through-neck design, with Honduran mahogany wings, and a hand-carved top. It added some brightness.”īorland ordered two custom four-strings and a six-string version of Gorodnitski’s Cremona model. “He wanted a very dark, heavy sound but transparent at the same time,” Gorodnitski tells us. Image: Andrew Benge / Redferns via Getty Images Though he still owns that PRS, his four-strings eventually took a backseat to the custom semi-hollow four-strings built by Latvian luthier and friend of bandmate DJ Lethal’s father, George Gorodnitski. Later, he also played PRS guitars, one of which is also a custom four-string. But the MC150PW had a scale length of 24.75 inches, far from the 27-inch scale you’d typically find on a baritone guitar.Īfter this, Ibanez made Borland a custom four-string. Rather than the usual BEADGBE tuning, Borland treated his sevens as six-strings with an additional high E.ĭespite these early experimentations with Limp Bizkit, Borland eventually ditched all his seven-strings and no longer owns any.įollowing his foray into the world of additional-string guitars, Borland decided that less really was more and dropped from seven strings to four (you read that right).īorland began using an Ibanez Musician MC150PW modded to fit only four heavy strings. While the use of seven-string guitars was typical for the era, with bands such as Korn doing much to popularise the approach, Borland used his a little differently. He also had a rare Ibanez RG7 CST, of which only 18 were ever made and only two shipped to the US for sale. But it wasn’t the only seven-string in Borland’s arsenal. On Limp Bizkit’s 1997 debut Three Dollar Bill, Y’all, Borland used a Universe, the first mass-produced seven-string in the world. Here, we speak to Borland’s longtime guitar tech Kadaver Dellamorte, as well as luthier George Gorodnitski, to better learn about the Bizkit player’s wonderfully weird gear.īetween 19, Borland used exclusively Ibanez guitars. While frontman Fred Durst has long been a lightning rod for fan hate, there’s no denying the quality of the band’s guitar work. The Limp Bizkit guitarist has been supplying the band with crushing riffs since the mid-1990s. READ MORE: Who is The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame actually for? Known as a master of disguise thanks to his outlandish on-stage outfits, Wes Borland’s gear is just as unorthodox – and misunderstood – as his wardrobe.
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