Mutt or nut?

[SteveK]

This has come up for sale locally:







Smells awfully frankenkaster to me. Whaddya think?

[dg]

I think that's a Fusion Special, but I'll dig through the scans to be sure.

[Grandturk]

Legit. Some kind of Fusion.

[dg]

D'oh, just noticed the logo. Not toothpaste. It's going to be a Japan-market axe. Some kind of SDK. Back to the scans...

[SteveK]

D'oh, just noticed the logo. Not toothpaste. It's going to be a Japan-market axe. Some kind of SDK. Back to the scans...

I was doing the same, but the logo had me thrown. Everything else looks legit.

Ah well, the guy want silly money for it anyhow, about US$720

[dg]

Here's an SDK-080-SH. Looks very similar:




more:

http://www.jacksonguitar.org/gall/gall11.html

There's a big gap in the Japan catalogs between '89 and '93, and there were tons of cool guitars in those years.

[Rich#6]

It doesn't match up to any of the US released ones that I can see. Either the bridge pickups are angled or like the fusion plus(which it's close too) has a neck humbucker.
The biggests issue is the logo. I think it's a japanese market one since it's still has the old logo and by the time these came out in the US they had the toothpaste logo.
too slow.

[SteveK]

I guessed it might be a Japan market only model. All sort of weird grey import stuff ends up here!

Thanks guys.

[84sups]

The trem is wrong and looks like it was moved toward the bridge pickup.

[dg]

It's a non-recessed trem with pullup route. Very common on guitars from the late '80s to the early '90s:



Not sure whether the trem has been changed or not. The baseplate doesn't look like a perfect match for the route, but some of the Japanese market guitars had different trems (Takeuchi, iirc) than the JT-590 or others we're used to seeing over here.