The actual Suhr issue was regarding the specs of the guitar, mostly. He wanted to redesign the trem, but John Suhr said no. He did not want to invest in trying to source an original style floyd. The issue got heated because the design team basically wanted Guthrie to use either the gotoh or the DL floyd. The other issue was around the pickups and trying to get those different. Charvel came in and told him they could do all of it. He did actually start with the gotoh trem and then brought back up the org floyd. Which they did source and put on. But the radius was not correct and by the time the saddles were changed out - it made more sense to create their own. Which is actually a killer trem. The MJ version pictured here takes it even further by using the pop in arm concept as well as a gotoh type srew in arm. IT is the best arm I have ever used hands down. The MJ version is about a 1000 cheaper but is basically a better guitar all around. Lot of design improvements and Guthrie played it exclusively with Hans Zimmer. Regardless of what side of the fence you are on, the Charvel is a much better guitar ( this one I should say) than the GG Suhr. I can use it for any type of gig no matter what...I have all of the models personally and this one is killer....