JCS - pickup config and control layout changes allowed!!!

[leftykingv2]

Oh god, this again - there's an upcharge because it's not standard, so therefore requires planning and special attention. And if you're not prepared to pay $30 (street price) on a $2500 order to get a single humbucker, then you don't really want it..

The price is fine with me but I just don't think it takes anything special. They throw the same pin router template on the guitar as they do when they route dual humbuckers and just route the bridge instead of both. Like I said it's less work. I really wouldn't consider reading a work order planning or special attention.

[Tho]

But it's not "regular". It's about Custom Shop Select, so standard models with custom modifications. Everything that is different from the standard money will cost extra.

[claxor]

OK, I can't copy text from the PDF (no idea how to) but the form says:

Standard pickup config n/c
1 hum $50
2 hum (standard) n/c
h-s-s (SL1 standard) $50
1 hum & 1 sc $50

And I agree, 'JCS' and 'Jackson Custom Shop' makes for some confusion. But it seems that JCS refers to Custom Select, whereas CS is 'proper' Custom Shop..

Which pdf form on the website says this? Are the forms not updated yet?

[neilli]

Nope, they've not updated the website as yet.

[claxor]

My eyes are spinning now... ok, these apply to custom select orders?

[neilli]

What applies to Custom Select orders?

Basically, this thread was supposed to be about Jackson Custom Select, so yes in JCS you can change pickup config now and you can go for a single volume and chose a blade or toggle switch. You can also go for black binding and a few other previously unavailable things.

[Ozz666]

Great news for sure on the pickup options, though they just need to offer a string thru Warrior and King V!!!

[walshula]

What applies to Custom Select orders?

Basically, this thread was supposed to be about Jackson Custom Select, so yes in JCS you can change pickup config now and you can go for a single volume and chose a blade or toggle switch. You can also go for black binding and a few other previously unavailable things.

This is great news. I may have to put in an order for something now that I can get a single humbucker on it.

[snowblind56]

I never really understood why they didn't offer SL2H-MAH's and KV2T's and other production models like that. I'd like to add an SL2H-MAH to my collection but I have grown to seriously dislike trans colors. So, Custom Select SL2H-MAH with a solid color? One can only hope it will be offered at some point.

[Newc]

The price is fine with me but I just don't think it takes anything special. They throw the same pin router template on the guitar as they do when they route dual humbuckers and just route the bridge instead of both. Like I said it's less work. I really wouldn't consider reading a work order planning or special attention.

Then you need to spend a day at my job, where I mass produce identical base parts that can be assembled as 15 different finished parts based on the fittings that they get, of which there can be 7 varieties in both metric and standard threading, and combinations of metric and standard.

The only way to know how to keep them and correct is by "reading the work order" and "paying special attention".

Granted I doubt J/C is spitting bodies out of a stamping press at 8 to 32 a minute, but when you look at a stack of body blanks you have to know that one of those is going for a single-hum while the other 12 are getting 2-hums just like they have for the last 10 years or more.
They're not going to plug a neck humbucker hole that wasn't supposed to be routed, and they can't just go make another blank because someone didn't read the work order. There's a budget to keep in mind, and an allotment of blanks to consider. Yes the extra 2H will be easily sold, but that's not the point, and goes right back to the attention to detail and quality that many here question.

So yes, it takes more planning to do less work in this situation.

[toejam]

The price is fine with me but I just don't think it takes anything special. They throw the same pin router template on the guitar as they do when they route dual humbuckers and just route the bridge instead of both. Like I said it's less work. I really wouldn't consider reading a work order planning or special attention.

When I ordered my Custom Carvin 7-string a few years ago, I only wanted one humbucker with one volume control... well, it falls into their "Option 50" category which is anything that's not standard. The normal DC727 has two humbuckers with volume, tone and three-way toggle, plus two coil split switches. It cost $150 for someone to stop the machine and do whatever so it wouldn't route the neck pup. And to eliminate the toggle and the two coil split switches and just have the volume pot by itself (push/pull for coil split), that was an extra $50. Though, I still guarantee that my Carvin cost less than what a USA Select does... even with a maple body and five-piece mahogany/maple neck!
It is very cool that Jackson has more flexibility with their options now.

[Dog Boy]

I've got a killer Custom Select Soloist but with these new options I kinda wished I had waited...

[haffwaythere]

IMO they should really get going on the 7 strings. From what I understand, if you want a U.S.A soloist, KV or Rhoads, whatever.... you pay the upcharge. Correct me if I'm wrong, but that's what I get from looking at the current custom shop sheet. And then the whole thing with the wrong sized inlays, I just don't get it.

[mr426]

I talked to Chris Canella today from Jackson and he told me they WILL NOT do a Firebird. Ugh..Maybe someday

[VitaminG]

Granted I doubt J/C is spitting bodies out of a stamping press at 8 to 32 a minute, but when you look at a stack of body blanks you have to know that one of those is going for a single-hum while the other 12 are getting 2-hums just like they have for the last 10 years or more.
They're not going to plug a neck humbucker hole that wasn't supposed to be routed, and they can't just go make another blank because someone didn't read the work order. There's a budget to keep in mind, and an allotment of blanks to consider. Yes the extra 2H will be easily sold, but that's not the point, and goes right back to the attention to detail and quality that many here question.

So yes, it takes more planning to do less work in this situation.

good explanation, Newc