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Last week, I posted pics of my in-progress "signature" Dinky in the Jackson Imports section. I got the finished guitar back today, and decided I'd post it here to give import and USA fans alike a peek at my aftermarket alternative to a custom Jackson.
What you will see below started out as a Jackson Concept JDX-94, which is a Japanese bolt-on with a string-thru hardtail bridge, Jackson pickups, white dot inlays and a plain black finish. What is shown in the pictures is the same guitar with a green python "stretch" graphic by Dan Lawrence at GMW, abalone dot and split block "fang" inlays by John Brown at Brown's Guitar Factory, a DiMarzio Steve's Special humbucker, Sperzel locking tuners, and a green pearl truss rod cover by our own Budman.
First to be done was the body, which I shipped to Lee at GMW with the desired design marked in silver Sharpie and notes with my color and pattern requests. Dan gave it the snakeskin treatment, and Lee reassembled it with the new humbucker added.
Meanwhile, I took the neck to Brown's Guitar Factory in St. Paul, MN for custom inlays and the tuner upgrade. John Brown has done inlay work for me in the past, plus many other mods and repairs. To go with the snake theme of the body, I wanted fang inlays at the octaves. Getting the curve of actual fangs would have required a lot of filler, so we went with a split block design. You get the idea.
I picked out the actual abalone blanks to be used, and specified the direction I wanted the figuring of the abalone to go. The dark line splitting the fangs is a thin strip of maple veneer dyed black.
I wanted one pair of fangs to have more of a liquid (blood? venom?) figuring.
I also picked which dots I wanted for the other positions, alternating from heavily-figured silver/white to less figured but more colorful. It's hard to tell in the pics due to the flash, but as the guitar moves or the light source shifts, different inlays "light up".
I needed something to complete the look. Ah yes, one of Budman's green pearl truss rod covers!
The finished guitar naturally cost me a great deal more than what it sold for brand new, but this is a model that was only in production for a year, and is my personal favorite Jackson. This is my third JDX-94, all of which are heavily modded.
Although the graphic isn't a color match to my band shirt, it IS a match to our original cover art. [img]/images/graemlins/headbang.gif[/img]
What you will see below started out as a Jackson Concept JDX-94, which is a Japanese bolt-on with a string-thru hardtail bridge, Jackson pickups, white dot inlays and a plain black finish. What is shown in the pictures is the same guitar with a green python "stretch" graphic by Dan Lawrence at GMW, abalone dot and split block "fang" inlays by John Brown at Brown's Guitar Factory, a DiMarzio Steve's Special humbucker, Sperzel locking tuners, and a green pearl truss rod cover by our own Budman.
First to be done was the body, which I shipped to Lee at GMW with the desired design marked in silver Sharpie and notes with my color and pattern requests. Dan gave it the snakeskin treatment, and Lee reassembled it with the new humbucker added.
Meanwhile, I took the neck to Brown's Guitar Factory in St. Paul, MN for custom inlays and the tuner upgrade. John Brown has done inlay work for me in the past, plus many other mods and repairs. To go with the snake theme of the body, I wanted fang inlays at the octaves. Getting the curve of actual fangs would have required a lot of filler, so we went with a split block design. You get the idea.
I picked out the actual abalone blanks to be used, and specified the direction I wanted the figuring of the abalone to go. The dark line splitting the fangs is a thin strip of maple veneer dyed black.
I wanted one pair of fangs to have more of a liquid (blood? venom?) figuring.
I also picked which dots I wanted for the other positions, alternating from heavily-figured silver/white to less figured but more colorful. It's hard to tell in the pics due to the flash, but as the guitar moves or the light source shifts, different inlays "light up".
I needed something to complete the look. Ah yes, one of Budman's green pearl truss rod covers!
The finished guitar naturally cost me a great deal more than what it sold for brand new, but this is a model that was only in production for a year, and is my personal favorite Jackson. This is my third JDX-94, all of which are heavily modded.
Although the graphic isn't a color match to my band shirt, it IS a match to our original cover art. [img]/images/graemlins/headbang.gif[/img]
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