Jackson's Diablo IV Guitars Are Already Sold Out

Jackson’s Kelly body style is one of the more distinctive silhouettes in metal guitar history, and it suits the Diablo aesthetic about as well as anything could. The X Series Limited Edition Diablo Kelly HT features the face of Mephisto across the body, Diablo IV artwork on the back, and blood-red binding running along the body, neck, and headstock. It looks like a prop from the game made real, which is exactly the point.

The X Series Diablo Kelly HT is built on a Nyatoh wood body with a through-body one-piece maple neck reinforced with graphite. The fingerboard is a 12-16″ compound radius amaranth with 24 jumbo frets and custom red Diablo-inspired inlays. High-output active Jackson pickups run into a single volume knob, anchored by a hardtail bridge. For $1,300 this is a real instrument, not just a display piece.

There are no sold comps as of today, which isn’t a surprise. These just sold out and ship on April 28. Expect listings to start appearing around the ship date as buyers who got in on preorder flip their orders.

The conditions for a flip are present. The guitar is tied to one of gaming’s biggest franchises, it has a hard launch-window ship date, and it sold out at preorder with no restocking signal from Jackson. That combination tends to push prices above retail once supply dries up.

Based on the preorder sellout and the Diablo franchise’s collector fanbase, a $200 to $400 premium over retail is a reasonable expectation once sold comps start appearing. That puts the range somewhere between $1,500 and $1,700 on eBay after fees, or roughly $200 to $350 net profit depending on where it lands.

That’s a modest flip by most standards, but a $1,300 outlay for a collectible guitar that sold out at preorder on day one is a reasonable setup. The ceiling could go higher if the Lord of Hatred expansion generates significant buzz around launch day.

The main risk here is that $1,300 is real money tied up in a single item with no guaranteed buyer. Guitar collabs don’t always hold their premium after initial hype fades, and the secondary market for gaming-branded instruments is thinner than sneakers or trading cards. If you paid retail and want to hold, the April 28 ship date gives you a natural moment to reassess the market before deciding to list.

Jackson’s site shows no indication of a restock, and the firm ship date suggests this was a fixed production run from the start. Once these ship, that’s likely the end of new supply.

And if you’re looking to one-up someone that snagged one of these axes, check out Bear Walker’s $12,000 YuGiOh guitar. These are all built to order, so as long as you have the scratch it’s no issue to obtain one.