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Flying Vs are quite metal, Explorers are quite metal, and if you combine the two you have an axe fit for Dimebag Darrell. Dime won his ML in 1982 but didn’t like it, passing it on to a friend who changed the pickups, added a Floyd Rose, and resprayed it with the legendary lightning bolt finish. When he gave it back in 1987, Dime didn’t recognise the guitar, but as Pantera exploded it became his signature model, aka the Dean From Hell.