
EBMM’s Sterling Ball recalls first meeting Richardson when he was just 14. That JP15 (Richardson, a huge John Petrucci and Dream Theater fan, has played various JP and Majesty Petrucci signature models over the years) may have been his first buckeye burl guitar, but his relationship with Ernie Ball Music Man extends back even further. I thought it was the sickest-looking thing I’d ever seen in my life.” When I got that guitar I put it on my stand and didn’t even play it. “Then, in about 2014, Ernie Ball made me a one-off custom JP15 with a buckeye burl top, which was the first one I ever owned.

“I’ve been obsessed with buckeye burl since the first time I ever saw the wood,” Richardson says.
