Grover Jackson Soloist

[QuantumRider]

Scored a Grover Jackson Soloist on Yahoo! Auction Sunday night. I got home from work yesterday and my wife said,

"There's a package for you. Did you buy another guitar?"
"Yes, but honey, I sold two guitars last week!"

Anyway, on to the porn:




The serial number is lower than that on my other Grover Jackson Soloist, which I know was made in 1999. So I figure that this guitar is at least 8 years old, which is old enough to have caused the binding to yellow a bit.



The neck pickup is a stock Grover Jackson (seller said it was a J-50).



The bridge pickup is a Duncan Custom
I like this pickup so much I have it on two other guitars
Plus, the bridge is a Schaller Floyd, which I think are excellent trems.



I took an hour or so to adjust the spring tension (the seller had it tuned a whole step down) and to intonate the Schaller, then played it for a little bit. This guitar pretty much plays itself, much like my other Grover Jackson

Those guys over at Chushin Gakki sure got it right

[Junior]

Atsushi, Nice guitar. I was wondering what you had your eye on.

[QuantumRider]

Thanks Jabez!

I was actually making room for a DK2M, which I've got on order.
This was an impulse buy. Look for another ad in the classifieds soon

[RacerX]

Congrats! Looks cool, and awesome that it has a Custom in there already!

[QuantumRider]

Yup. I just replaced the J90C and J100 in my Dinky parts mutt with a Custom and a Hotrails last week.

My Jackson Stars Soloist came with a Custom in the bridge and a '59 in the neck. I wasn't too crazy about the '59 at first, but it's growing on me.

[jackson1]

That is sweet. At least 8 years old, eh..? Maybe it's one of the first GJ's to be build after the split with Kyowa-Shokai and Itaru Kanno. Build while they still remembered how to build a Pro Series guitar

Looks like the JT-590 has hardened steel inserts. Does it?

Congrats bro!

[Nazgul]

Congrats! Looks very nice! What two guitars did you sell btw?

[QuantumRider]

HH-

Having looked at the photo on your website, it looks as though you are right about the inserts. Will look at the back of the trem the next time I change strings to be sure.

Naz-

Thanks! Plays better than it looks, too

I let a couple of modded Charvel Model 3A's go. They both went to JCFers, and should arrive at their new homes tomorrow (been tracking the packages from this end as well).

[Sunbane]

Looks like the JT-590 has hardened steel inserts. Does it?

Since it is stamped "Schaller", could it really be considered a JT trem at all?

[Dave L]

I noticed that as well... I can´t remember seeing a J/C with a Schaller-stamped Floyd before. Can´t say I´ve looked that hard, though.

[Danacus]

Does that have real mother of pearl inlays? Should be ,but can't be sure from the pic; looks like could be toilet seat?

[Sunbane]

I think a lot of the native japanese J/Cs have had Schallers for quite a while, so this is probably a stock item. It's just that I tend to hang up on Technicalities.

A JT-590 should either have "Jackson" or "Charvel" stamped into it - and most of them didn't have the steel inserts. However, Schaller themselves don't have a model name for their licensed Floyd (as far as I know), so I suppose calling it a JT-590 is close enough.

[jackson1]

You're absolutely right, Sunbane. And we can surely agree on, that they're exactly the same trem, apart from the logo. I just tend to look through my Jackson glasses and name everything accordingly, hence the Jackson Tremolo 590

[QuantumRider]

Sunbane and Dave L-

Henrik and I had a conversation regarding the trem in the Chat Room earlier today. Supposedly there are Schaller trems with Jackson, Charvel, and Schaller logos on J/C guitars. Notice that I wrote that the trem is a "Schaller"

However, if in fact this trem does have the steel inserts, shouldn't it then be called a Floyd Rose II?

Danacus-

I just pulled my Jackson Stars Soloist out of its case to compare the inlays, and I have to say that the inlays on the Grover Jackson are "Pearloid", not real MOP. The luster just isn't the same...

Either way, I plan to play this guitar, not stare at it, so it doesn't make that much of a difference to me.

[Danacus]

I just pulled my Jackson Stars Soloist out of its case to compare the inlays, and I have to say that the inlays on the Grover Jackson are "Pearloid", not real MOP. The luster just isn't the same...

Either way, I plan to play this guitar, not stare at it, so it doesn't make that much of a difference to me.

That's too bad. So the inlay on the Stars Soloist is real MOP? Those Stars seem really nice; too bad you get f'ed on the shipping from Japan.