Blast From The Past

[roodyrocker]

Well, as I was looking for the pix Brooks requested of the NAMM 04 PC-1, "Lumpy", I also came across my Jackson factory tour pix from January 2003. At the time Lloyd Prins from GuitarXpress.com arranged to take any interested JCFers to tour the Ontario factory while out at NAMM 2003. We had a blast there and got the tour with Tim Wilson, who had been at Jackson from the begining of it all! In Jan 2003 Jackson was owned by Fender but still had not moved from the Ontario factory location. Several months later they would move to Corona. I have more from the tour but I'll post these for now. We had a great time there! Hey McD, can we possibly do this at Corona next year around NAMM time? So here are some pix as we entered:

Jackson building front entrance, Ontario


Jackson/Charvel neon signs in front glass


Celeste hard at work in the front office/lobby. She used to look up work orders for us when we'd call about our guitars. Sadly, they don't do that anymore


Tim Wilson with all the old Jackson/Charvel guitar records. Last picture is with Lloyd from GuitarXpress

[Johnnyryche]

Keep 'em coming Rudy! I, for one, love to see stuff like this. And I would love to make it to NAMM and get a personal tour.

[Trem]

cool, now wheres all the geets!?

[roodyrocker]

Not a problem, I'll post guitfiddle shots bit by bit
Here is our JCF gang with Tim Wilson, holding a Rhoads under construction


And here are our special run Bullseye Charvels some of which were completed in time for their lucky new owners to pick up by NAMM 03

[shreddermon]

Great pics, Rudy. Love it. And now you've got me missing my old bullseye.

[Charlz]

I love that sign behind 'Celeste'!!!! That's cool!!!

[Mr.Shreddy]

Thanks for posting these! They are really cool!

[roodyrocker]

Great pics, Rudy. Love it. And now you've got me missing my old bullseye.

You got rid of your Bullseye? Those are great Charvels. Still got mine

I love that sign behind 'Celeste'!!!! That's cool!!!

Here ya go, a better shot of that sign

[kinde69]

AWESOME PICS RUDY!!! Thanks for sharing!

[shreddermon]

You got rid of your Bullseye? Those are great Charvels. Still got mine

They are great guitars. I'm a moron for selling mine. Don't rub it in.

[roodyrocker]

I will post some more pix from inside the Ontario CS in the next couple days. I even put some original USA Jackson sawdust from the shop in a plastic bag and gave it to a couple friends as souvenirs when I got back at the time
Shreddermon, sorry to hear you got rid of yours. Ocassionally one pops up for sale, perhaps you'll get one back some day.

[roodyrocker]

O.K. Here are some more pix from the final year at the Jackson CS in Ontario.

Employee break room


Tim Wilson shows us some old neck templates including San Dimas Strat Head




Some choice woods in stock





Parts stash!


Body and control templates



Witness the birth process of Y2KV's in American Flag graphic!


A batch of EDS Soloists!


Much more to come later, hope you enjoy these shots

[nhspike]

Coooooooooooooooooooooool!

[Charlz]

Awesome pics!!

[ADR]

Love the pix, thanx Rudy

please post more