Vik Duality Natural

This is a handmade guitar by Vik Kuletski, who makes perhaps the best metal guitars in the world today. I've had them all, literally all the modern boutique makers stuff and Vik is at the very, very top. I have had 5 of his guitars and still own 3.....a 6 string, 7 string, and an 8 string. I'm offering up this 6 string only because something else has come along that I want and I can't afford it unless something of a similar value goes. It was a hard decision to list it.
When I got this it was finished in a dark green colour, almost black to be honest, and it had a lot of surface scratches (which were undisclosed by the prior owner) I decided to have the finish removed and thought that a redwood burl like this one would look better natural. I found the best guys in the UK who do top finishing work for some of the top custom builders and they did an expert job of it. It was finished in high gloss lacquer after it was stripped and looks brand new. That cost about 500 to do. I also swapped the pickups which at the time I bought it were Seymour Duncans, and I replaced them with ASL Blackbird Afterburners. ASL do the pickups for Blackmachine, very expensive and very, very good indeed for metal, that was about 400 to do. Tuners are Gotoh 510, bridge is hipshot, luminlay side dot markers, 5a flame neck and backplate, swamp ash body, ebony board. Basically the best hardware and luthiery you can get. It's quite a light guitar, very well balanced, and sounds monstrous. Zero fretwear, plays fantastically. This is probably the only Vik for sale outside the US at the moment.