ID Help please! USA?

[Model4]

This is listed as a "Jackson Professional Strat" on my local CL, but I know it's newer than their line that actually said "Professional" on the headstock...?

I can't figure out what it is...but I'm attaching a couple of pics of it...seems to have a nice non-Floyd trem on it, maple neck/fretboard, and see through black
finish. Also has a Seymour Duncan Blackout??? Any idea of the model of it? Wondering if it's worth the $500 the guys is asking..

Thanks for any help!

[Dave Rocks]

looks like a mutt....

[Axegrinder87]

What neck is that? And is that even a Jackson body?

[straycat]

Need better pics

[Hellbat]

And a serial number would help determine age/origin.

[surfdork]

Looks like a JRS-2. Import, Wilkinson trem, ash body. The blackout p/u is not original though. $500 is too much.

[straycat]

$250 if it has a hard case.
If the seller says I have $100 in the pick up and $250 in the body $150 in the neck he is out of his mind adding up the cost to justify his price I would pass.Its a mutt and worth $250.00

[toejam]

It's not a mutt. It's a JRS-2 like surfdork stated.
http://audiozone.dk/guitargallery/?c...1997Page03.jpg

[toejam]

This is listed as a "Jackson Professional Strat" on my local CL, but I know it's newer than their line that actually said "Professional" on the headstock...?

If it says Professional, why would you be asking if it's USA? Any Professional is Japanese.

[Model4]

Thanks for the info on it guys! I knew I had seen one at some point with that type trem, and single hum...

And Toejam, the CL ad says Jackson Professional Strat...I can't actually see the headstock, but I don't think it actually says professional on it. I think
it's just a word the guy is using to describe it, because didn't the Professional's actually say it on the headstock?

Anyways, thanks again, big help...that's why I love this forum!

[toejam]

It will say Professional on it. If it's USA, then it will say Made In USA, but the boards on those will have no inlays.

[ralph]

Yeah as Toe said, its a JRS-2, the JRS-1 is similar but has no inlays on the board
http://audiozone.dk/guitargallery/?c...1997Page03.jpg

I can kind of make out "Professional" on the headstock as well, the text is bigger than "Made in USA" so is easy to spot even in small, grainy pics

I cant comment on its value, but the quality is right up there, top of the range japanese, like a Model series charvel with an ash body

[metalmathh]

hmm i have exactly the same guitar with the original pickup (kent armstrong distortion) weird but fucknig clean sound... it's a jrs-2 from 1997 professionnal series, the neck of mine is rosewood but maple is interesting too. the neck is really a fucknig nice piece of wood, these were limited run of 200 or 300 dont remember, if you have a chance to get it for a bit less, dont waste that chance because only the neck is better than the kelly xl and dinky xl.

the neck worth a try that's 110% sure

[metalmathh]

yes 500 is too much but thinking 250 with case is good price, try to get a 250$ guitar new with a case, you wont come up with a js and the jrs is 10000000000000000000x time the js right!

[metalmathh]

no arm ?