Need some knowledge. 80s Ontario soloist?

[Ward]

Some guy went into the local guitar shop with a Jackson. The shop owner & I have been pretty friendly for years, and he knows I'm interested in all things Jackson, so he gave the guy my e-mail thinking I could tell him what he has.

He sent me these pictures. It looks like the serial is J31xx, so that would make it an 87 Ontario I think, but I don't know jack about anything before 1990. I would say it is a soloist with a Floyd and some aftermarket knobs, but the horns looked weird. Any thoughts?
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[Ward]

Serial # shot
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[Axewielder]

I'm going with "fake piece of shit".

[Ward]

Good thing I came here for information. I almost told him it was a "real piece of shit".

[Hellbat]

Headstock shape looks wrong. (r) is in a bizarre place. Made in USA looks odd.

I won't even get into the body shape or the control layout...

The way the finish is checked around the scarf joint scares the bejeebers out of me too.

[neilli]

I'm not gonna say fake - I'm gonna say butchered.

[Ward]

What was really funny to me is that he said in the e-mail that it was in 'great condition' for its age. The shop owner had warned me that it was pretty in beat shape, but I still wasn't expecting anything like those pics.

Unfortunately the guitar owner sounded pretty convinced that he had a San Dimas worth a good amount of coin...

[sixx_ gunner]

I agree with all the above. Crap.

[straycat]

The big E string is damn near off the fretboard.POS in my book

[Axewielder]

There might be some real Charvel oversized pickup rings on there though!

[charvel750]

No pics of the back, especially where the body joins the neck?

[Ward]

Nope, only the pics I put up here, or variations of the same shots. I was hoping for the neck joint, but no luck. He says it is a neck-through guitar.

I'm not looking to buy it, but now I'm curious. It doesn't make much sense that it would be a fake neck-through, but that body just doesn't look right for a soloist.

Those horns look like they were shaved down or something...

[len]

The big E string is damn near off the fretboard.

trem is offset

[Ward]

The trem is actually missing an entire post completely. I don't know if you can see it in the photos, but there is nothing holding the trem to the body on the top side. He asked me if I had any extras because he was missing one and the other was the wrong type.

So new posts might fix that problem. Not so much on the other issues...

[len]

The trem is actually missing an entire post completely,there is nothing holding the trem to the body on the top side.

i guess that explains a couple of things