The truss rod cover is unadorned, and the headstock overlay is the fibre material used on many contemporary Gibson models.

The guitar features one volume knob and a Gibson Dirty Fingers humbucker in the bridge pickup position.

The first prototype guitar featured a satin brown finish (the same as the production version) but had bright orange racing stripes instead of the more commonly seen cream.

The production version features the standard satin brown with cream stripes, and Sperzel locking tuners.

Epiphone currently offers a Chinese-made, lower priced version of the guitar with all the same specs (minus locking tuners).

In later years, the guitars Tom used live had burns, stickers (with either the Blink-182 or Angels & Airwaves logos), tape and other cosmetic alterations.