Jackson/Charvel 2018 Line Up/NAMM Speculation Thread

[Zado]

misha has a reliced jackson strat and he said jackson built it but then they reliced it at fender (since they do a lot of relicing and have the know-how)

This shoud have been done the same way. I mean, it's not something debatable, that relic IS badly done.

 

[Hollowway]

misha has a reliced jackson strat and he said jackson built it but then they reliced it at fender (since they do a lot of relicing and have the know-how)

I don't know about everyone else, but in general these (or any) relics don't look anything like the way my guitars get beat up. Somehow I don't manage to go completely through the paint in random places, and yet never knock it into something, causing a dent.

 

[Zado]

I don't know about everyone else, but in general these (or any) relics don't look anything like the way my guitars get beat up. Somehow I don't manage to go completely through the paint in random places, and yet never knock it into something, causing a dent.

Depends on the brand, some are really good at makin guitars look aged and not abused.

 

[BigViolin]

What about the '62 strat that you played in smokey bars for 30 years?

 

[cardinal]

The Fender guys do a reasonable job, but some of them reproduced exact copies of true road warriors (copies of the guitars of EVH, SRV, Yngwie, etc), so they know exactly how these things actually would wear.

I can’t fathom how you’d get wear like on some of these Jacksons unless it’s reproducing what would happen if one of my toddlers got of hold of it while within reach of an orbital sander and a scraper.

But who knows, with the price of these things, maybe that’s the type of honest wear they’re going for. Playing wear is for smucks. This is the authentic stuff that happens to basement warriors like me.

 

[Hollowway]

Honestly, the BEST relic would be a really pristine guitar with one really bad ding in it with the paint falling off in the area, the subsequent sinking, depressing feeling of self loathing, and then some attempts at patchwork with acrylic paint from Michael's, and a little bit of nail polish and cyanoacrylate. That's a true relic.

 

[Vyn]

Honestly, the BEST relic would be a really pristine guitar with one really bad ding in it with the paint falling off in the area, the subsequent sinking, depressing feeling of self loathing, and then some attempts at patchwork with acrylic paint from Michael's, and a little bit of nail polish and cyanoacrylate. That's a true relic.

This is so real I can't tell if my tears are from laughing or crying at the thought of "That's EXACTLY what happened to my SLAT3-7 all those years ago."

 

[cardinal]

Honestly, the BEST relic would be a really pristine guitar with one really bad ding in it with the paint falling off in the area, the subsequent sinking, depressing feeling of self loathing, and then some attempts at patchwork with acrylic paint from Michael's, and a little bit of nail polish and cyanoacrylate. That's a true relic.

That was me tonight swapping pickguards but catching a pickup screw on the finish

 

[sezna]

so..who is grabbing a dk24? i know i am

 

[xzacx]

Is it too early to start talking about next year's lineup? I was really hoping that Pat O'Brien Double Rhoads would become a USA production model.

 

[KnightBrolaire]

Honestly, the BEST relic would be a really pristine guitar with one really bad ding in it with the paint falling off in the area, the subsequent sinking, depressing feeling of self loathing, and then some attempts at patchwork with acrylic paint from Michael's, and a little bit of nail polish and cyanoacrylate. That's a true relic.

just like all my beater guitars ;_;

 

[Zado]

 

[Mathemagician]

Those Charvels and that sparkle Jackson. Whew. Nice.

 

[feraledge]

Everyone is freaking about the relic jobs, but am I the only going nuts about how Jackson’s CS arch top soloists look like the bridge is where the bridge PUP should be? They look so awkward to me. SLATs look perfectly fine, but these never do.

 

[Edika]

That Explorer type Jackson looks yummy. I wonder if it's maple neck alder body or if they went mahogany for that one.

 

[cardinal]

Everyone is freaking about the relic jobs, but am I the only going nuts about how Jackson’s CS arch top soloists look like the bridge is where the bridge PUP should be? They look so awkward to me. SLATs look perfectly fine, but these never do.

It’s because they have 27 frets. So they moved the neck up for room for the frets and moved the bridge up accordingly.

Looks terrible. It’s a more extreme depiction of why I don’t like most 24 fret guitars. I don’t like sharp horns with deep cutaways and I don’t like looking at (or playing with) the bridge shift up from its normal spot.

 

[Zado]

I don’t like sharp horns with deep cutaways and I don’t like looking at (or playing with) the bridge shift up from its normal spot.

This sums up my last 2 years.

 

[narad]

Anyone know what this teaser pic belongs to?

 

[Aso]

Anyone know what this teaser pic belongs to?

The new limited Oli Herbert Rhoads

https://www.jacksonguitars.com/features/oli-herbert

 

[narad]

The new limited Oli Herbert Rhoads

https://www.jacksonguitars.com/features/oli-herbert

Thanks! Man, just that corner was perfect, not sure how I feel about the whole thing or a 3x3 on a Jackson rhoads shape.