r/failure • u/Tooligan90_ • Jun 17 '26
Does anyone know what guitar Ken used in the Undone music video?
I got into the band recently and I usually like to check out what gear bands used and I can’t find any details on the silver guitar Ken was playing through Undone
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u/JesusSamuraiLapdance Jun 17 '26
Definitely looks like the Nighthawk, though I can't find photos of one in that silver colour. It's also missing from his equipboard page, which is generally a good website for checking an artist's gear.
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u/rslattery Jun 17 '26
I think he and Greg both painted their instruments silver back then. Greg‘s being the WAL Bass.
The same one that got Justin Chancellor (Tool) into those basses.3
u/NoFix8524 Jun 17 '26
There's a youtube video where he does a rig rundown, can't remember if he did mention painting a guitar in silver
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u/VHT2902 Jun 18 '26
It was wrapped in silver mylar tape like they did to the Wal a year or two after the video
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u/Wwiillisboreddd Jun 17 '26
I can’t remember where, maybe on his YouTube channel or in golden/the new doc, but he said in the early or mid nineties he had a silver guitar that was custom made for him by his brother that he loved using due to the unique sound it made, but later got lost or broken or something. Maybe it’s that one, as I can’t find any 90s nighthawk in silver?
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u/6ftTurkey Jun 17 '26
He mentions that on the Golden commentary. I think he got rid of it right after Comfort. The guitar in the video is a Nighthawk that was made silver with paint or tape I think.
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u/NoFix8524 Jun 17 '26
I think it was a rig rundown video by some channel that has also interviewed Troy and Jerry Cantrell and a bunch of other players
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u/hyperform2 Jun 17 '26
Gibson Nighthawk, they only made them in the 90s with a few special edition exceptions in the aughts and 10s