Ross’s main guitar is a Dean®
USA-made Rusty Cooley RC7G 7-string signature. This
guitar is usually tuned one half step down. It has
an alder body and an ultra-thin maple neck with tall
frets for ultra-fast movements up and down the neck.
It uses all black hardware, a low-profile locking
bridge, and two active EMG® 707 pickups.
Ross’s 8-string guitar is an
Agile® Intrepid 828 Oceanburst. It has an ash body,
a bolt on maple neck, and a maple fretboard. It is
tuned EBEADGBE.
Ross’s Conklin® Groove Tools
7-string has been upgraded by adding DiMarzio®
pickups (LiquiFire-7 at the neck and Crunch Lab-7 at
the bridge) and all new electronics with a single
volume control. It has a string-through body design,
5-piece maple/purple heart neck, and a fixed hard
tail bridge.
Ross’s main 6-string guitar is a
Jackson® neck-through Randy Rhoads RR5FR. It uses an
alder body with a rock maple neck-through design.
The pickups are Seymour Duncan® JB (bridge) and Jazz
(neck). It incorporates a Floyd Rose® tremolo and
all black hardware.
Ross’s Dean® Avalanche 7-string
has been upgraded by adding two Seymour Duncan®
Blackouts (AHB-1 Phase 1) and all new electronics
with a single volume control. It has a
string-through basswood body, maple neck, rosewood
fingerboard, and a tune-o-matic
bridge.
Ross heavily modified this Les
Paul® by stripping off the original paint and
carving a much deeper cut-a-way in the body to give
him better reach of the higher frets. To improve its
tone, he eliminated all the electronics except for
one single on/off switch and installed ESP® LH-301
passive pickups. Ross filled all the holes and
painted the very cool black-and-white paint scheme
that he designed.
Ross’s acoustic is an Epiphone® AJ
100 in natural finish that uses mahogany body
materials with a select spruce top. It has a
mahogany set neck, a rosewood fingerboard and chrome
hardware. Although Ross doesn’t use this guitar
often, it comes in handy
sometimes.
