Karl Sandoval Master Built "Randy Rhoads" Polka Dot V w/Ebony Fretboard Upgrade

"The Original Sandoval Dot V"

As designed by and built for Randy Rhoads of Quiet Riot, Blizzard of Oz and Ozzy Osbourne...is offered here with a Rare Ebony Fretboard Upgrade, rare accesaries, Vintage Collectable Merchandise, Signed & Limited edition framed Photograph, signed Randy Rhoads biography and more.

This Rare Guitar collection super bundle was assembled for the Randy Rhoads Super fan!

Unplayed and commissioned for this ultra rare "Randy Rhoads Polka Dot V Bundle" is a replica of the iconic guitar that includes every feature as requested by Randy Rhoads with two significant upgrades…

• An Ebony Fretboard 
• and an adjustable dual truss rod. (Randy’s was not adjustable).

Exclusive to this SuperFan Bundle:

• A Karl Sandoval Polka Dot V #109 hand built and signed w/Ebony fretboard upgrade.
• A hand made custom Black Leather Guitar Strap with Randy Rhoads Chrome stud pattern as used with his Polka Dot V.
• A Paul Natkin Original Ozzy Osbourne and Randy Rhoads Photo Signed by the Artist.
• RANDY RHOADS biography (420 pages) written by Steven Rosen/Andrew Klein/Peter Margolis and autographed by the authors. This is a Randy Rhoads must have, was assembled with photographs of items provided by Randy's family for a documentary of his life that was never released. An incredible view into the life of the legendary guitarist.
• Ozzy Osbourne “BELIEVER LIVE” POLKA DOT PICTURE DISC - 45 edition. Super rare vinyl disc pressed as a tribute to the guitar.
• Ozzy Osbourne “Tribute” Medal Promotional, Rare. This rare promotional item was made for the famous Live Album with the Paul Natkin Photo on its cover.
• Randy Rhoads: A life - the super rare unauthorized biography by David A. Bene. This book was only published in a run of 300. It fetches over a $1000 on ebay and abebooks.com.
• A Certificate of Authenticity signed by Karl Sandoval.
• A Sandoval Engineering T-Shirt only available from Karl Sandoval.

The Story behind its design

Karl Sandoval began his Luthier career in southern California in the 70s building guitars for host of local guitar innovators that included Eddie Van Halen and George Lynch. Karl had been working with Wayne Charvel at the Charvel guitar shop when he received a call from then Quiet Riot guitarist Randy Rhoads, telling him that he was backstage with George Lynch doing a show and got to play a custom V he made for George.

The main design feature of the guitar Sandoval made for Lynch was a Danelectro neck bolted to a V-shaped body. Before Karl was building guitars on his own, he built guitars with Danelectro necks because he liked how the action could be low. What impressed Karl was the ability to pull up the high E string with a tremolo bar and it wouldn’t fret out due to lack of arch across the fretboard, resulting in a very unique feel. Prior to building George Lynch's V, Sandoval was responsible for the radically shaped, yellow “Megazone” for Eddie Van Halen also featuring a Danelectro neck. One

On July 3, 1979 Randy Rhoads first met with Sandoval to discuss his ideas for his own version of what he had seen on George Lynch’s Flying V.

Sandoval remembers Randy walking around his garage discussing this guitar ... talking about the headstock, the color, the bowtie inlay on the neck. He wanted the Les Paul’s double humbuckers and the Fender Strat tremolo. He also asked about putting the toggle switch and the output jack on the upper wing. Randy also mentioned that he did not want a bolt-on neck because he wanted the guitar to have the playability of a Gibson.

So Sandoval suggested to Randy ‘Let’s come up with a different headstock, a different color, come up with an identity.’ To which Randy replied… ‘V body with polka dots’.  Randy wanted 3/4" dots painted all over the guitar, and to give it perspective, he didn’t want them randomly placed on the guitar. Randy drew up the shape of the guitar’s headstock on school notebook paper in pencil and pen, in design that was shaped like a harpoon or an arrowhead.

The outcome of these elements was a Flying V shaped guitar made by Karl Sandoval but based on Randy Rhoads’s ideas.

This guitar was commissioned in October of 2015 and completed in February of 2016 and the 109th Polka Dot V ever made by Karl Sandoval. We wanted something true to Randy’s Vision with a special upgrade, so we settled on an Ebony neck for its darker look, hard playability and a tone that cuts through like Randy’s playing.

While this guitar design has been copied by other makers, it rarely is built to this legendary luthiers quality and rarely with Randy’s custom headstock, fretboard radius, Dimarizio Super PAF & Distortion Pickups and Strat style tremolo bridge. We specially made sure Karl personally signed the back of the headstock and hand wrote the serial.

Karl Sandoval V’s custom paint job has come to represent Randy’s Rhoads and has been used on many products to represent Randy's legacy.

The Guitar Body Specs

• Mahogany Body
• Customized V style
• Gloss Black / white dots symmetrically positioned
• DiMarzio creme PAF neck humbucking pickup
• DiMarzio creme Superdistortion bridge humbucking pickup
• Chrome humbucking rings
• 3-way toggle selector switch on the upper wing / stainless switch plate
• Chrome cup jack plate on the upper wing / 1/4′ output jack
• Chrome tremolo bridge / 6 adjustable saddles heavy block
• Stainless Dunlap strap lock buttons
• White vinyl cover plates
• 2 Volume, 2 Tone 500k potentiometers / White Ice cube knobs

The Neck

• Maple Neck wood
• Harpoon angled headstock
• 2-way adjustable truss rod
• 25 ” scale
• Ebony fretboard
• Set-neck / custom contour to body
• Chrome 6-inline tuners
• Bone nut
• Medium frets
• Bowtie white mother-o-pearl inlay

Randy Rhoads Legacy

• Voted "Best New Talent" by the readers of Guitar Player magazine in December 1981
• Voted "Best Heavy Metal Guitarist" by the readers of UK-based Sounds magazine in December 1981.
• Placed 36th on Rolling Stone Magazine's 100 Greatest Guitarists.
• Placed 4th on Guitar World Magazine's 100 Greatest Heavy Metal Guitarists.
• "Crazy Train" and "Mr. Crowley" placed 9th and 28th respectively on Guitar World‍ ' s 100 Greatest Guitar Solos readers poll.
• Named one of the fastest guitar players in Guitar World' s 50 Fastest Guitarists list.
• "Crazy Train" placed 51 in Rolling Stone‍ ' s "100 Greatest Guitar Songs of All Time" list.

Here’s your chance to own a piece of history with an Iconic Talisman, dark as night with Stellar vision. This sale includes several thousand dollars worth of specially curated collectable memorabilia and essentials that will never be made available again.