A nameless copy of the Peavey vortex 2, possible made by aria, looking at the headstock shape, but the telltale neckplate is not there so it will stay al little bit a mystery.

And the mystery is solved, it’s a Musima MH-X a rare metal guitar made in the DDR from mid tot end 80’s, a very unusual design for Musima and of a good quality.

There is not a lot known about these guitars, made out of a variety of materials, a lot were made of plywood, even particleboard was used,  and some were made out of a nice piece of wood like this one.

And it’s a rare one, one of the rarest solidbody’s made by Musima, the rumours are that the used hardware was made in Korea.

A great guitar, plays smooth and has balls, versatile too due to the splitable humbucker, and with his toplocks and floydstyle bridge never goes out of tune.

The bridge is a sooped up standard trem not a real floating one al though i set it up slightly floating.

And the 21 frets neck is al ittlebit unusual on a metal guitar like this.

The only negative thing i can say about it is, that is getting it to stand up is difficult and he doesn’t agree either with a guitarstand that well.

When you finally manage to have him standing in a stand it’s at least a very unstabile marriage.

Better lay it down to avoid it to fall over.

Nice detail is that the pot’s and switches are all mounted on a circuitboard just like gibson does these days.

This was common practice at that time for a lot easteuropean and sovjet guitars, they were ahead of their time.