Another new jackson cs got fxxk up

[leftykingv2]

Well played sir! Well played!!

[VitaminG]

I hope Jackson is reading these posts because they are loosing customers from their own fold.
If it intonates and plays fine I would keep it just for the reason its different I don't play that high up on the neck anyway.

I actually thought that 23 frets was a cool, quirky option. Until the guy showed his order form for 24 frets. I'd take a refund from Jackson & keep it too. It looks fantastic & he says it plays great.

That still doesn't make sense?? I thought all Kelly's were 25.5 inch scale??? Why would a 24.75 fret board ever even be near a Kelly? I am at a loss here guys!

why not? They've made 24 3/4" Soloists, KingVs have been both, as have Warriors. Why not a Kelly?

It seems to me that someone grabbed the wrong neck blank and slapped the wrong wings on it. At a glance, the guitar would have looked fine all the way down the line. Until they started cutting fret slots.

[leftykingv2]

I actually thought that 23 frets was a cool, quirky option. Until the guy showed his order form for 24 frets. I'd take a refund from Jackson & keep it too. It looks fantastic & he says it plays great.

why not? They've made 24 3/4" Soloists, KingVs have been both, as have Warriors. Why not a Kelly?

It seems to me that someone grabbed the wrong neck blank and slapped the wrong wings on it. At a glance, the guitar would have looked fine all the way down the line. Until they started cutting fret slots.

Yeah but none of the 24.75 guitars were ever 24 fret before IIRC. I have never seen a Kelly in person that was 24.75 inch scale that has a 24 fret neck. A 24.75 fret board wouldn't even fit 24 or even 23 frets.

[euronymous]

Yeah but none of the 24.75 guitars were ever 24 fret before IIRC. I have never seen a Kelly in person that was 24.75 inch scale that has a 24 fret neck. A 24.75 fret board wouldn't even fit 24 or even 23 frets.

I used to bc rich assassin custom shop, which is 24 frets and 24.75, it plays very well

[walshula]

Yeah but none of the 24.75 guitars were ever 24 fret before IIRC. I have never seen a Kelly in person that was 24.75 inch scale that has a 24 fret neck. A 24.75 fret board wouldn't even fit 24 or even 23 frets.

I do believe my USA Fusions are 24.75 scale with 24 frets. Am I wrong on that?

[kuerbo]

Not wrong, my japanese fusion was also 24 frets.

[Matt_B]

Grover Jackson said that the guitars they're producing now are like relics from a by gone era and that the shop is lost in a time warp of sorts.

On the surface, that seems bad but is it?

[VitaminG]

Yeah but none of the 24.75 guitars were ever 24 fret before IIRC. I have never seen a Kelly in person that was 24.75 inch scale that has a 24 fret neck. A 24.75 fret board wouldn't even fit 24 or even 23 frets.

I'm actually posting this with a 24 fret Fusion Plus in my lap.

Can't speak to all 24 3/4" Jacksons, but all Fusions were 24 frets. The short scale Warriors were too, with a funky little angled fretboard extension. Very cool

[Ward]

I'm actually posting this with a 24 fret Fusion Plus in my lap.

Can't speak to all 24 3/4" Jacksons, but all Fusions were 24 frets. The short scale Warriors were too, with a funky little angled fretboard extension. Very cool

The KV2T is also 24 3/4" scale with 24 frets.

[leftykingv2]

Well every 24 fret guitar I own is 25.5 inch scale and like I said I've never seen a Kelly that was 24.75 scale. I wasn't speaking for imports as I have no desire to own one. I don't know anything about your USA Fusions or the imports because Jackson doesn't even offer that model on their website any longer. As far as I can see there are only two USA models left that even offer the 24.75 scale. One is the KV2T and the other is the 22 fret Mark Morton. That's my fault for not clarifying better. I thought since this thread was about USA's and Custom shops that's all we we're talking about. But i'll stand by my statement....I've never seen a 24.75 scale Kelly. @VitaminG weren't those Warriors your speaking of imports? The only 24 fret short 24.75 scale USA I see is the KV2T. I am not saying you're wrong either VitaminG but I have never seen a 24.75 Soloist, Warrior or KingV around this shit hole I live. But then again it's hard to find anyone out here with any nice Jackson's.

[lepard]

Aren't there just a select few guys building Custom Shop neck-thru Jacksons ??? Isn't it just Mike Shannon, Pablo Santana and Pat McGary ? Which one of them is responsible for this ?

[Ward]

@VitaminG weren't those Warriors your speaking of imports? The only 24 fret short 24.75 scale USA I see is the KV2T. I am not saying you're wrong either VitaminG but I have never seen a 24.75 Soloist, Warrior or KingV around this shit hole I live.

The older (early 1990s) production USA warriors were 24 3/4" scale. The production USA warriors are now 25 1/2". I'm not sure when they switched over (mid 90s?), but the 1990 USA I had was 24 3/4".

I don't remember if they ever made a production 24 3/4" soloist, but I have seen some customs built to that scale.

[coloradoman25]

arent the slatqh's 24.75

[VitaminG]

Well every 24 fret guitar I own is 25.5 inch scale and like I said I've never seen a Kelly that was 24.75 scale. I wasn't speaking for imports as I have no desire to own one. I don't know anything about your USA Fusions or the imports because Jackson doesn't even offer that model on their website any longer. As far as I can see there are only two USA models left that even offer the 24.75 scale. One is the KV2T and the other is the 22 fret Mark Morton. That's my fault for not clarifying better. I thought since this thread was about USA's and Custom shops that's all we we're talking about. But i'll stand by my statement....I've never seen a 24.75 scale Kelly. @VitaminG weren't those Warriors your speaking of imports? The only 24 fret short 24.75 scale USA I see is the KV2T. I am not saying you're wrong either VitaminG but I have never seen a 24.75 Soloist, Warrior or KingV around this shit hole I live. But then again it's hard to find anyone out here with any nice Jackson's.

I've never seen a shortscale Kelly either, with or without 24 frets. It would be possible to have one built though.

But I was responding to your comment that a "24.75 fret board wouldn't even fit 24 or even 23 frets" Where it was built doesn't come into it.

Maybe my comment would have carried more weight if I was playing my US Fusion instead an import model fwiw, my US Fusion also has 24 frets.

As Ward has pointed out, there have been a number of US production models with 24 frets & 24 3/4" scale. c-man25 may be right that the production archtop also was. And of course there have been shortscale CS builds. IIRC JCFer slayer had a sweet shortscale mahogany Soloist built

[neilli]

Personally, I don't think the missing fret would bother me, other than on principle. There's a KV2 out there with 23 frets as well.

But absolutely, whoever is checking things over there needs a talking to. Or, perhaps they need to actually employ someone to QC things before they leave, rather than just filling in the tag in Arizona LOL