Post your Jackson basses!

[amimbari]

wow that Matt Thor kelly bass is still around huh?...... there is another one of his on reverb cool 8 string but -- someone is trying to get 8900 for it.

https://reverb.com/item/2419131-jackson-p-style-8-string-bass-1988-army-green

[mournblade]

It is Matt himself selling it. I am stoked about the kelly, i missed it last time it was for sale, but not this time!

[amimbari]

oh wow I didn't associate Matt's Boutique as him directly and thought he just wrote the story and a store was selling it...lol

[mournblade]

Yeah I have chatted with a bit on reverb, He confirmed the Kelly was his, and in fact, it is the very first Kelly bass I ever saw (Rough Cutt opened for Dio), so I am totally stoked that I now own the very bass that has sparked a 30 obsession for the right one.

[amimbari]

before Rob sold that kelly to chatterboots he told the story about it because he wanted me to buy it first since I bought his crackle and some other stuff, but after chatterboots sold it, we thought it was gone to never-never-land


...nope

[mournblade]

I put a WTB post on Talkbass, and dude saw it! I also had them on 4 different face book groups

[mournblade]

Here it is! With my CBXivNT, which goes under the knife next week. EMGtw and a BCS eq. Really a sweet bass!

[mournblade]

So the CBXIV NT underwent some corrective surgery this week. Pulled the Jackson Soapbars and 3 band, and in went EMG 35TW's with each pickup having a push/pull pot for dual coil/single coil and a BQS control. Pick it up tomorrow, pretty excited to see what difference the upgraded pickups made. The stock EQ wasn't too bad, but I went with a solderless connection system, so I pulled the original 3 band. All in all, I am pretty impressed with the CBX IV NT for $550. Great neck, decent hardware, 2 octave neck through bass. MIne was intonated perfectly and love the compound radius fretboard. All in all, definite thumbs up. Only negative, stock SoapBars are kind of weak, imo, and they definitely needed the EQ to have any punch or grit.

[amimbari]

talk about a cut and paste from somewhere else?

[mournblade]

Yep, but not sure who is on what anymore. Some people don't like facebook, some don't use forums.

[Buzter70]

thunderbird

Fresh out of Jacksons right now but I still have my "beat up, black and pointy" 3B

What neck did you put on that epiphone tbird body? That's the shiznit.

[XX7]

[amimbari]

although like so many others that looked the same for 30 years, I still like those 5stringers compared to the new ones with the goofy crescent moon knob layout

[Johannes]

although like so many others that looked the same for 30 years, I still like those 5stringers compared to the new ones with the goofy crescent moon knob layout

+1

Looks silly next to that KV. I mean the headstock is way bigger but that logo is smaller. Jackson could have used a slightly bigger logo on those. IMO

[amimbari]

what do you folks think about this combination? Maple/crackle