Dahlius
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Seems they finally listened to reason and released this beauty
the catch? $2k and it's made in Korea
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the catch? $2k and it's made in Korea
Marked Man
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In my journey to collect MIJ superstrats I recently got this Jackson Stars SL-J1.
I have never tried an USA made soloist but I don´t think one could tell much difference qualitywise between this and a Jackson SL2H.
There´s not much to say besides the usual Soloist specs. I mainly got it due the MOP inlays and logo, as well as bound ebony fingerboard.
I feel the same way, although I still want to get a USA Soloist one day. That is an Alpha Soloist you have! I'm very open to getting a Stars Soloist and King V in black.
I don't know the full history, but I know the late '80s/early '90s Soloists were fully on par with USAs, although perhaps the USAs had a slight edge on average. I've only played one USA Soloist (at Guitar Center aka Guitar K-Mart of all places), looked just like yours, and it was the most amazing one I've ever played.
Either way, my '92 Soloist MIJ is a lifer. Love the big, beautiful MOP Jackson logo on the headstock and MOP sharkfins. Sharkfins were the #1 status symbol of choice when I was a kid, and 2nd place went to Ibanez Universe disappearing Pyramid inlays.
It's been through a couple of evolutions, but currently has a Black Winter bridge and two Duncan Parallel Axis Stacks + EMG SPC midboost + super fat titanium Floyd block. I'll probably add an EMG EXG (active Expander) this year also. Since I don't have a Rhoads yet, this is my guitar for Rhoads material when a trem is needed.
nightsprinter
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Edit- I misunderstood the thread and posted a charvel, not a Jackson. I'll post my Jacksons sometime soon.
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JimF
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You can post Charvels in here?...
nightsprinter
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Went through a bunch of recent pages and didn't see any, so I wasn't sure. Anyhow, here are some of mine.
Got this in over the weekend! First Jackson, first V in general. Was listed Brand New for a steal on Reverb so jumped on it, and glad I did. Plays great, sounds good enough for my 5" speaker. Will probably eventually upgrade the Floyd on it, but other than that no complaints!
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manu80
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I hesitated a long time for that one....
is the green metallic ?
is the green metallic ?
Yes
I'm not great with paint colors or whatever but I'd say that yeah this is a metallic green
works0fheart
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You all knew this was coming.
Thread and video about it momentarily.
Thread and video about it momentarily.
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Just removed the EMGs and cleaned up the gunked and tarnished sterling silver inlays on my SL2H. These inlays were hard to polish. Now they look nice and shiny with the SS frets!
Feels brand spankin new.
Feels brand spankin new.
Chri
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Somehow there are still very few things cooler looking than an all black soloist with sharkfins.
Estilo
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Did that SL2H come with ss frets? I got an RR3 and now am wondering what to do with the compound radius when it needs a refret.
Northfall
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Was thinking about waiting til it's done, but this thing is sizzling so here's a peek at some work I'm having done on my Model 4 I picked up a while back 
Prospectively going to delete the top knob and keep the middle volume, bottom split-coil and the 2-ways will stay on/offs. I was in a fortunate position to stumble upon these.
It's a PA Dyad w/ the matching STK-1s (I think) were loaded into BE's customshop Kelly. So I kinda jumped at the opportunity to load these up into my Model 4 and give it a little more life than the stock 80s Jackson Active stuff.
Currently I've only got the Bucker rigged to the volume, so I don't have access to tone/ or my mid/neck, but it's a WIP. The bridge is smoking hot at 18.8k measured before loading. I've got it set up with North coil (A8) towards the neck, so it's set up for C standard atm.
Been running through some different riffage of the tuning, and it's sounding awesome. My standard setup is a slightly altered Bea patch for the QC (6505 w/ Mesa + Marshall cabs and s57 IRs) and it's producing some really great growls and the harmonics are rich too!
Very excited to have it all wired up soon!
Prospectively going to delete the top knob and keep the middle volume, bottom split-coil and the 2-ways will stay on/offs. I was in a fortunate position to stumble upon these.
It's a PA Dyad w/ the matching STK-1s (I think) were loaded into BE's customshop Kelly. So I kinda jumped at the opportunity to load these up into my Model 4 and give it a little more life than the stock 80s Jackson Active stuff.
Currently I've only got the Bucker rigged to the volume, so I don't have access to tone/ or my mid/neck, but it's a WIP. The bridge is smoking hot at 18.8k measured before loading. I've got it set up with North coil (A8) towards the neck, so it's set up for C standard atm.
Been running through some different riffage of the tuning, and it's sounding awesome. My standard setup is a slightly altered Bea patch for the QC (6505 w/ Mesa + Marshall cabs and s57 IRs) and it's producing some really great growls and the harmonics are rich too!
Very excited to have it all wired up soon!
Estilo
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My humble RR3 that I just got. Was told it's likely a 2006 from the Chushin run given the finish.
Been wanting 2000s MIJ Jackson to replace my old DK2M which I traded for an RGA121 which I hated. Add to that the DK was what I brought with me when I left Melbourne for good. So this RR has a different shape and fretboard but the body, pickups, bridge and origin are the same.
Been wanting 2000s MIJ Jackson to replace my old DK2M which I traded for an RGA121 which I hated. Add to that the DK was what I brought with me when I left Melbourne for good. So this RR has a different shape and fretboard but the body, pickups, bridge and origin are the same.
Northfall
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So midway through, we kinda got talking and decided to "switch" things up a bit!
The on/offs are all still the same, the volume was moved down to the middle pot, we put replaced the upper pot with a killswitch, and the bottom pot was replaced with a 3 way for Parallel/Split/Series
The ability to blend the neck with split bridge is pretty cool with 65 Reverb patches through my QC - and I've found that Series sounds mega thick for my 6505 patches. I'm quite pleased.
The only last steps until endgame will be replacing the current killswitch w/ a Tesi unit. And upon needing a restring, I plan to replace the inserts w/ FU-Tone gold and throw some Schaller lockers in there.
I think it'll look and work pretty slick!
The on/offs are all still the same, the volume was moved down to the middle pot, we put replaced the upper pot with a killswitch, and the bottom pot was replaced with a 3 way for Parallel/Split/Series
The ability to blend the neck with split bridge is pretty cool with 65 Reverb patches through my QC - and I've found that Series sounds mega thick for my 6505 patches. I'm quite pleased.
The only last steps until endgame will be replacing the current killswitch w/ a Tesi unit. And upon needing a restring, I plan to replace the inserts w/ FU-Tone gold and throw some Schaller lockers in there.
I think it'll look and work pretty slick!
cardinal
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That looks great. One of the few with an actual locking nut instead of a normal nut with a clamp.Was thinking about waiting til it's done, but this thing is sizzling so here's a peek at some work I'm having done on my Model 4 I picked up a while back
Prospectively going to delete the top knob and keep the middle volume, bottom split-coil and the 2-ways will stay on/offs. I was in a fortunate position to stumble upon these.
It's a PA Dyad w/ the matching STK-1s (I think) were loaded into BE's customshop Kelly. So I kinda jumped at the opportunity to load these up into my Model 4 and give it a little more life than the stock 80s Jackson Active stuff.
Currently I've only got the Bucker rigged to the volume, so I don't have access to tone/ or my mid/neck, but it's a WIP. The bridge is smoking hot at 18.8k measured before loading. I've got it set up with North coil (A8) towards the neck, so it's set up for C standard atm.
Been running through some different riffage of the tuning, and it's sounding awesome. My standard setup is a slightly altered Bea patch for the QC (6505 w/ Mesa + Marshall cabs and s57 IRs) and it's producing some really great growls and the harmonics are rich too!
Very excited to have it all wired up soon!
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Not mine, but funny CS stuff. Can any of you spot what’s wrong with this Custom Shop Warrior’s fretboard? 
nightsprinter
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Not mine, but funny CS stuff. Can any of you spot what’s wrong with this Custom Shop Warrior’s fretboard?
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Ghost sharks??
And what's up with that random tarnished fret? We doing mixed media now?
Northfall
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Yer inlays got laid in too early at 13 and missing yer 24thNot mine, but funny CS stuff. Can any of you spot what’s wrong with this Custom Shop Warrior’s fretboard?
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