This guitar is nicer than anything Jackson has ever built

[ABSOLUT CHARVEL]

hard to get past the head stock. kind of looks like a home made Parker Fly. Rick is right about the patch work. the back is not so bad looking, so i guess if the whole body was made like that, it would have stood a chance.

[Frigo89]

that LOOKS like a POS, it'd be interesting to play it, but I wouldnt be suprised if it actually sucked

[Racerx2k]

Try more like $5,000, and they are all custom one offs. At one point it was a two year wait to get one. They are so good only one or two has ever been sold secondhand.

Looks like someone paid $4900, too MUCH. Looks like someone f*@#ed up on the headstock, with the bandsaw.

[rjohnstone]

My main concern would be the stability of the headstock with that much tension going on there.
While I'm sure he had some cosmetic reason to make it that way, I wonder how stable it is.
At least on a Parker, it has a reinforced composite layer to help maintain structural stability.

[SEEGERMANY]

If the headstock was tweaked a little bit, I'd like it. God knows I've seen worse.

[sakeido]

that LOOKS like a POS, it'd be interesting to play it, but I wouldnt be suprised if it actually sucked

Jesus the people on this forum are fucking hilarious

Looks like someone paid $4900, too MUCH. Looks like someone f*@#ed up on the headstock, with the bandsaw.

Shit looks like he found a way to make that mistake on every single guitar he's ever made. Too bad the only thing the Jackson headstock is good for is... (in addition to being made fun of)

[sakeido]

My main concern would be the stability of the headstock with that much tension going on there.
While I'm sure he had some cosmetic reason to make it that way, I wonder how stable it is.
At least on a Parker, it has a reinforced composite layer to help maintain structural stability.

He resizes it as necessary.. the ones on the 6 stringers are even thinner, and the ones on the 8 strings are much more massive

[shreddermon]

Uhhm, no thanks.

[åron]

You're comparing apples to oranges. Jackson is a brand with some history and a certain flavor. There really is no shortage of luthiers that could pull this off. I like some of the concepts and it has some coherence in the design. However, the headstock and neck for that matter seem dicey. Why do a 5 piece neck design only to put in a scarf joint and then cut away useful wood on the headstock for the sake of form? I also agree with Rick about the top. I think there's a reason his models seem a bargain, what with the premium materials and conceptual complexity. Still has some promise, I'll grant you that.

On the subject of taste, that's all personal.
"I've been on here long enough to have figured out that the nicer the people on this forum think it is, the uglier it actually is to people with taste."
I've been around here long enough to figure out that you like to fight.

[rjohnstone]

Give the headstock a good whack while under tension.
Let's see if it holds up as well as the Jackson headstock.
Jackson's may get the tips dinged up a lot, but they rarely snap in half.
Like I said, I'm curious if the headstock on this guitar would survive an accidental smack.
For the kind of money you're paying, it better.

[sakeido]

Give the headstock a good whack while under tension.
Let's see if it holds up as well as the Jackson headstock.
Jackson's may get the tips dinged up a lot, but they rarely snap in half.
Like I said, I'm curious if the headstock on this guitar would survive an accidental smack.
For the kind of money you're paying, it better.

My COW took only the lightest tap and it split clean down the middle. The Jackson headstock, by virtue of its enormous size, is pretty easy to break.. and these are solid rosewood necks on the blackmachine. Not exactly flimsy stuff.

[sakeido]

You're comparing apples to oranges. Jackson is a brand with some history and a certain flavor. There really is no shortage of luthiers that could pull this off. I like some of the concepts and it has some coherence in the design. However, the headstock and neck for that matter seem dicey. Why do a 5 piece neck design only to put in a scarf joint and then cut away useful wood on the headstock for the sake of form? I also agree with Rick about the top. I think there's a reason his models seem a bargain, what with the premium materials and conceptual complexity. Still has some promise, I'll grant you that.

What useful wood? You only need enough to mount tuners to. There has been some talk about how a heavier headstock increases sustain, but a solid rosewood neck is dense enough on its own you can cut the size way down and still have better tone. He's been using this design for (I think) about six or seven years now with no complaints. Pin from Sikth has been touring with his for years. Jackson has history, sure, but I'm not playing a guitar for its history. I play it for the build quality and the tone, and the blackmachine certainly has tone and the guitars have an immaculate reputation for being fantastically well built.

On the subject of taste, that's all personal.
"I've been on here long enough to have figured out that the nicer the people on this forum think it is, the uglier it actually is to people with taste."
I've been around here long enough to figure out that you like to fight.

The longer I spend here, the more it seems that 99% of the people on this forum are corksniffers more concerned with cosmetics and history than how the instrument in their hands actually plays and sounds.

[rjohnstone]

OK, well you are comparing an import model Jackson to a custom made guitar.
The COW looks like it broke along the grain as it should have.
Something tells me if it broke off that easy, it was already cracked to begin with.

[CharvelRocker]

My COW took only the lightest tap and it split clean down the middle. The Jackson headstock, by virtue of its enormous size, is pretty easy to break.. and these are solid rosewood necks on the blackmachine. Not exactly flimsy stuff.

Are you trying to say a small piece rosewood is more durable than a maple Jackson HS?
:ROTF:
And FYI, my Jackson has taken some knocks including being knocked off it's stand by a clumsy band member and for all that it only has a dent the size of a pencil tip in it.

[lerxstcat]

Sakeido, the ironic thing is that if it is as nice as you say it is, you're doing them a disservice by acting like a troll in the way you've posted on this thread. It might be a heavenly guitar but it looks kind of goofy, and coming here to promote it by slagging the brand this forum is named after just makes you look like a stone asshole.