Would Jackson "officially" refinish a guitar?

[Mikernaut2]

I'm guessing no but...

I was thinking I would love to have the Red Blue Pearl finish that was done on the import COW sigs to the black custom shop neck thru COW I have.

LoL hell I'd love them to route it out and add a neck pickup too

I could always send it somewhere else but this one has a MOP "Jackson" logo vs a stenciled logo. So I dunno if that would get damaged or have to be removed for a refinish.

Maybe Mike Learn will pop in and share some wisdom.

[diablomozart]

i had it done in the 90's when amic still owned..it wasnt exactly common practice to do it then...so i would guess the answer would be no...but i have been wrong before...d.m.

[shreddermon]

Highly doubtful, unless it was being done for a warranty issue with paint.

My first custom shop Jackson - way back in 1986 - was refinned by the factory because of paint issues. ...QC was so much better back in the old days, right?

[CharvelRocker]

Highly doubtful, unless it was being done for a warranty issue with paint.

My first custom shop Jackson - way back in 1986 - was refinned by the factory because of paint issues. ...QC was so much better back in the old days, right?

+1. Though I can see why I big company like Jackson got out of that (along with mods in general), I don't know why my smaller shops like GMW are stopping it.

[ulijdavid]

I think Lee is has stopped doing refins because he is concentrating on his own line of guitars - which look pretty damn good!!

[KBRR]

Don't refinish it sell it to me

[RR05xx]

I know they used to do it pre-fender.

I have specifically asked about this more recently (about 2006) and was told absolutely not (for a non-warranty issue - I wanted a charvel to be factory refin'd).

As far as under warrenty, I have had 2 charvels guitars go back for refins/rebuilds under the warrenty since the fender buyout - 2 for 2 LOL! I have 3 jacksons which I have owned since the 80s (original owner on 2 of them) - they magically have not required a trip back to the factory. YMMV.

[GuerillaPete]

Only if you're Zakk Wylde or Amir Derakh would they do that for....probably.

Get some cans of Krylon and have some fun.

[CharvelRocker]

I know they used to do it pre-fender.

Stopped reading after this. I haven't heard of anybody having factory refinishes since the mid 80s.

[AK47]

Stopped reading after this. I haven't heard of anybody having factory refinishes since the mid 80s.

I can vouch that what RR05xx says is a fact. I know of two people personally that got factory refins in 2000 and 2001. They were nobodies just had Jacksons that needed refinishing.

[diablomozart]

mine was 1997...d.m.

[JACKSONFREAK]

But were these refins due to a finish flaw and done under warranty to same color? Or were they done in a differant color all together? Warranty refin to same color is most likely doable if there is a flaw. But to repaint it completley differant probably not.
Gil

[diablomozart]

no...mine was rr0349...it had been repainted before i bought it...they refinned it back to the gold sparkle it originally was...made me new hardware and even fixed a crack in the upper wing...i paid for it...but it was worth every penny...so no...not a warranty...d.m.

[AK47]

But were these refins due to a finish flaw and done under warranty to same color? Or were they done in a differant color all together? Warranty refin to same color is most likely doable if there is a flaw. But to repaint it completley differant probably not.
Gil

The one I personally now about was a 84 Rhoads they restored in 2001 and even made new diamond plate hardware for it and installed it at the customers cost. The other one was a factory refin of a soloist if I remember correctly. Meaning the soloist was painted some weird graphic and the shop restored it back to its factory graphic.

[toejam]

I think Lee is has stopped doing refins because he is concentrating on his own line of guitars - which look pretty damn good!!

I hear he only does laminated fretboards now! :ROTF: