Dinky reverse professional identity

[Sober]

Sorry for making a new thread as the topic might be discussed 1000 of times, but anyways:

Reverse headstock with "professional" written on it, 2 humbuckers, 1 tone, 1 volume, piranha inlays, 24 frets.
And the main thing: the serial number is 761256. For me it seems to be strange for a Japanese one. Need help, what is the model? Thanks!

[Jackson-Charvel]

Were there Professional series with piranha inlays, ever? I thought they ended the official "Professional Series" written on the headstock in the mid-late 90's, whereas the Piranha inlays were like 2000 or later. If there were Piranha inlays in the 90's then I must be out of the loop and someone smack me.

[rjohnstone]

Post a pic of it.
That's one strange guitar you have there.
The serial is weird too... it should be 96xxxx. Never seen one that started with a 7 before.

[Sober]

Here are the photos:

http://public.fotki.com/Public123/jackson1/

[rjohnstone]

Those are sharkies, not piranha's.
Early 90's Dinky Reverse.
The serial number still has me confused.

[kelly user]

where's ron when you need him........

[Jackson-Charvel]

Strange the first year you see the UV Black finish on an ash body is 1996. Maybe they swapped necks too as the reverse Sharkies appear on the DR3 and there was never a DR3 with a UVB finish. They only made the UVB finish from 1996 to 1998 according to the catalogs.

Looks to me like you've got a 96-98 DR5 Dinky reverse body in UVB, with a DR3 neck of any year (whatever the years they came with reversed sharkies (maybe all of them?)). That's my 2¢

[Jackson-Charvel]

Looks like the DR2 body, but the DR2 has chrome hardware. The DR5 came with that finish and with black hardware, but never came with reverse sharkies to my knowledge (always had the offset dots). The DR3's were the ones with the reverse sharkies, so my above theory still holds water for now.

[Jackson-Charvel]

Well I ruled out the DR2 as thats 25.5 scale 22 frets. You either have a 1 off DR3 that slipped through the cracks with a unique finish not listed for any year in the catalogs, or like the above proposed DR5 body / DR3 neck. That said it's a nice looking guitar and one that I would want eventually.

[Carbuff]

Well I ruled out the DR2 as thats 25.5 scale 22 frets. You either have a 1 off DR3 that slipped through the cracks with a unique finish not listed for any year in the catalogs, or like the above proposed DR5 body / DR3 neck. That said it's a nice looking guitar and one that I would want eventually.

Yeah, that kinda stuff does happen. I had a JRS-2 that had a painted headstock from the factory. I think if he checks the neck heel and pocket for stamps he will get to the root of it.

[toejam]

Well I ruled out the DR2 as thats 25.5 scale 22 frets. You either have a 1 off DR3 that slipped through the cracks with a unique finish not listed for any year in the catalogs, or like the above proposed DR5 body / DR3 neck. That said it's a nice looking guitar and one that I would want eventually.

Can't be a DR5 body... it's got a blade selector instead of the toggle selector like the DR3. I'd say a one-off DR3.

[RacerX]

where's ron when you need him........

Sleeping!

Looks like everybody else has this covered pretty well!

[kelly user]

amazing information you guys retain over the years

[VitaminG]

dude, this is the number 1 resource for Jackson/Charvel information. And if we don't know, we'll make it up!

[Sober]

Thanks, guys. The owner says it's DR3, but not really sure about that. Still, I'm puzzled with this serial number. Any ideas about it?