Vintage Pete Back circa 1981

I recently came across this very early example of Pete's work from 1981, which I couldn't resist sharing with you.

Its an unusual heavy metal-style design with a through neck and some interesting tonewoods. As usual for Pete it has top-quality parts even at this early stage in his career - Grover machine heads and a Schaller bridge. The bridge pick up is a classic Gibson Dirty Fingers. Note the old-style scroll font Pete Back signature and double custom marks on the head. What an unusual custom guitar.