The X500 Menace is a guitar designed for metal and extreme music, featuring a neck-thru-body construction with a maple top on a mahogany body. It includes a 7-piece Maple/Purple Heart/Panga Panga neck, FloydRose® 1000 Series tremolo, and Seymour Duncan® Sentient & Nazgul Humbucker set. Other features include a reverse headstock, 1 volume and 1 tone control with a 3-way pickup selector, and a compound radius fingerboard made of ebony.