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I’m not sure exactly what you’re asking. But the Diablos came with both regular and reverse headstocks. I’ve seen more examples of reverse but I owned a mid 90’s Diablo with a regular headstock.  Killer guitars. I only unloaded it because I was purging myself of Floyd’d guitars and kept my old Charvel instead.

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IIRC, the the majority of early Diablos had reverse headstocks.  There was at least one "LE" limited edition run during those first couple of years that had a non-reverse headstock, birdseye maple neck, and another limited run (for a UK dealer/distributor?) that spec'd a toggle switch in place of the usual blade switch.   There was a thread about the LEs not even a year ago, so if you use the search function, you'll likely find it. 

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1 minute ago, Steve Haynie said:

Is that a Diablo neck?  Could it be from a Centaura or Chaparral? 

The centered dots and headstock shape put that squarely in mid-late '90s Diablo territory. 

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Early gen 1 diablos (92 -94?) Iike that guitar appears to be (two pickups with the neck one slanted) all were reverse headstocks except the special editions as mentioned above. 

Gen 2 diablos (95-??) Were *mostly* forward facing headstocks. I have an early 95' gen 2 and it is reverse. I also own a 93' gen one and it's reverse. 

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5 hours ago, Biz Prof said:

The centered dots and headstock shape put that squarely in mid-late '90s Diablo territory. 

Exactly. The Cent necks had offset dots and post- '88 Chappies had Cali-style head stocks.

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10 hours ago, pablo said:

An Other thing that call my attention (because im not a diablo expert)is that the neck looks like to be made in one piece of wood?

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Yes, I believe the Diablos used 1 piece necks as opposed to Hamer’s typical 3 piece stressed neck construction. It was one way of bringing down the cost. 

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Love Diablos. Wish i still had my mid-90`s regular headstock one as well. My 1992 is still very awesome.

As a side, I think my 2001 studio custom has a 1 piece neck. I have checked over and over for years and still can`t see 3 pieces to the neck. Maybe it was ordered that way.

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