Premier Guitar | 8 years ago

Article & photos: http://bit.ly/DeafheavenRR

PG’s Perry Bean met with boundary-pushing guitarists Kerry McCoy and Shiv Mehra of Deafheaven during their stop in Nashville. McCoy and Shiv showed their atypical guitars, workhorse pedalboards, and loud tube-driven amps.

Kerry McCoy tours with two Dunable guitars. His No. 1 is this Moonflower model featuring a walnut body and neck, wenge fretboard with flame maple binding, Dunable Grizzly pickups, Grover Sta-Tite tuners, and a dive-bombing Kahler bridge. This is a body shape/style that Intronaut guitarist/luthier Sacha Dunable normally doesn’t build, but he asked Sacha to build his version of Kerry’s rare blue Les Paul that he used to favor.

Shiv plays a Dunable Yeti with a mahogany neck and body, ebony fretboard, brushed aluminum pickguard and hardware, and Gibson Burstbucker pickups. Shiv strings it with D'Addario NYXL .011s, tuned to either standard tuning or dropped D. 

Continue learning about the band's gear: http://bit.ly/DeafheavenRR