This is a typical 1978 RD Standard. Other than the two colours available, natural and ebony, with their corresponding maple and ebony fingerboards, there were no variations within this model.

As with the RD Artist, and the Ripper, it was equipped with the Gibson three-point bridge and Schaller BM tuners. Of course the RD Standards controls are much simpler than the RD Artist; just three speed knobs: two volume, one tone. The same configuration as the Thunderbird. These controlled some specially designed series 3 humbuckers that were used on no other model, although the wiring loom itself was the same as that of the bicentennial Thunderbird.