Please, help to identify the Jackson guitar. Any info on it? Good/Bad?

[Tigerclaw_x]

Hello, found this 5 stringer on Reverb. Gave an offer, offer was accepted. Went to check it out. Solid built, straight as an arrow neck, not a single ding or mark on the guitar. Sounds... BAD... No, no dead frets, no buzzing. Just it sounds as if it is played in a cave. Not sharp at all. The pickups are "Dunken Designed" nobody knows where they were assembled and by home. The guitar has 4 nobs, one of them has double knob (black big on the bottom, chromed on top) one of the control knobs can be pulled out for the boost. The guitar is built VERY solidly. About twice the mass of my Ibanez SR300. Anyone has ANY idea what the heck did I find and how horrible/good it is. The pickups are TWO J pickups. The serial number is J012330

Here is the link to where I found it and its pictures...

https://reverb.com/item/1949654-jackson-5-str

Please, HELP me ID it and let me know how bad or good is it so I can back out of the deal
D

[diablomozart]

looks like a c5a...should be made in japan...pop the back cover and see if there's a battery for the pickups (could be passive or active, i'm a guitarist so i don't know lol)...d.m.

[Mudlark]

Yes, a made in Japan C5A. The serial is one of the few post-'90s serials that contain the J prefix. It would be either 2000 or 2001 depending on which format was used. As for quality, Japan was known to make the finest of any Jackson/Charvel imports.

Here's the 2001 catalogue with some specs.
http://support.jacksonguitars.com/ca...01_catalog.pdf

Sounds like an electronics/wiring problem or the battery is dead that powers the boost feature.