With a distressed body and antiqued hardware, AXL Badwater Series guitars look and feel like rare earth relics, unleashed after centuries of mineralization. These shocking guitars are equipped with EMG-designed pickups for hard rocking tones and clean delivery. Even the headstock and backplate have vintage distressing. No area was spared from the destruction. Badwater guitars have a one-of-a-kind style and excellent playability. The AXL Badwater AS-820-CKBK features a crackle black finish that is  not only amazing looking but plays and sounds like a guitar that costs 3 times as much! You will be amazed by this guitar, it looks like years of use have characterized every inch of the instrument. One of our top picks and one of the hottest guitars on the market!