"So they fill the hole with rock maple because it's really dense and hard. "I've had Explorers modified where they take the front pickup out, I don't really use the front pickup anyway, so they take the front pickup out, which essentially leaves you with a big hole. “I scoop all of the wood away from the high frets otherwise, I can't get to them,” he said.
Hook went on to discuss other mods to his GIbsons. So it's kind of how I came up with the idea." If I put this in my guitar, I can actually have a tremolo arm without a tremolo. It's got a mode on it called Tremolo Arm if you can believe that. "So I can do dive bombs and stuff like that.
The American Capitalist Songfacts states that Bathory came up with the name after being amused by a scene involving a five finger punch in Kill Bill 2. But I hardwired it into the signal chain within the guitar so that I could have a whammy bar effect on a guitar that does not have a whammy bar. Five Finger Death Punch Five Finger Death Punch were formed in 2005 by guitarist Zoltan Bathory (formerly of U.P.O.). I think it's called the PS-5, the Super Shifter is what it's called. "I cut a hole in it and put a pitch transposer pedal – they don't make the pedal anymore. Regarding his six-strings, he said, "Basically, my signature Explorer is my go-to. "So I came up with a design that should work for both, and Kiesel is going to make it, and I can't talk about it beyond that, really.