CS Select Warrior ordered!

[Tho]

Just to share my enthusiasm! I've ordered a Custom Shop Select Warrior through The Music Zoo! It's gonna be a really basic guitar with aggressive looks, with only specs I need. I own an RR24 (Jap), a '94 Pro Soloist and a Custom Shop Soloist (SL2H-V) and I thought a Warrior would be a nice addition to my collection. Never played one before, but they should be really comfortable

-Warrior body shape
-Mahogany body
-Mahogany neck (ebony fretboard with MOP sharkies)
-Reverse headstock with MOP logo
-Ivoroid neck and headstock binding
-All black finish
-1 humbucker (JB)
-1 EVH low-friction volume pot (placed 1/2 inch back)
-Recessed floyd rose

They say the waiting time is aprox. 4 months. I hope it arrives just in time before we go on our 3 week European tour.

[walshula]

Sounds sweet, looking forward to the pictures!!!

[shreddermon]

[Force]

Sweet, that should be killer. Warriors are very comfy to play, you won't be disappointed.

[Axewielder]

Good move moving that volume knob back. The WR1 has the most obnoxious volume knob placement of any of the standard models.

[Scholomance]

You might just wanna go ahead and plan bringing a secondary guitar for your tour. I've been waiting since April 2013 for my Custom Select Warrior to arrive and I was going under the assumption of it maybe taking no longer than 4 or 5 months max. They did finish it in December, but it was the wrong color (really more of a miscommunication issue than anything) so it had to be redone and was again finished in the first week of March. So, it was done 3 months ago and to my knowledge it still has not even left the factory to the dealer despite them promising him that it would finally ship a month ago. I keep saying "Maybe it'll come this week." "Well, maybe this week." "Hmm, maybe next week?" "Ok, maybe next month..." I was really hopeful the Custom Select thing would work better but for me its been very disappointing and I almost feel like I may as well have gone and done a full custom and planned to wait the extra year. I will say the picture I was shown of my guitar looks very cool, so its killing me knowing its just sitting somewhere done and out of my hands. I hope yours goes much faster than mine!

[guitardudeluke]

nice

[Tho]

I sure hope it won't take as long as yours, Scholomance. I do think that 4 months is a very optimistic estimation. It won't arrive in time for the tour since it starts on October 2nd, so I'll bring along a backup guitar anyway ;-)

[Tho]

By the way: I was really amazed by the price. I've altered pretty much everyting on this guitar, and it still was below the listed price of the base model. I love CS Select.

[ZL1hawk]

This is going to be very cool! An interesting choice on the neck.

[Tho]

This is going to be very cool! An interesting choice on the neck.

Yep. Mahogany body + mahogany neck is not very common for Jackson guitars. My Custom Shop SL2H-V has that same combo, and in combination with a JB in the bridge, it's the ultimate sound for me. It makes it sound super tight but still roaring as an angry bear. I used to have bad experience with mahogany guitars. Mostly a muddy/fuzzy sound on cheap guitars, but Jackson CS is a whole other thing ;-)

[Axegrinder87]

I didn't realize 1 hum was an option now. Got the gears turning...

[Tho]

Yep! They allow a lot! They even do reversed sharkies (confirmed) and probably 80% logo on reverse headstock to (unconfirmed from my side), but that's not listed on the sheet.

[Scholomance]

If they would just 'allow' me to add an extra string to the next one, I might be tempted to forgive how long the first one is taking!

[MetalDaze]

I didn't realize 1 hum was an option now. Got the gears turning...

They sure do! Since I'm too lazy to start my own thread, I just put in a Custom Select order too:

- RR24
- Single hum
- Volume only (rear loaded controls)
- Non-recessed Floyd
- Black hardware
- No inlays
- Silver Sparkle with matching headstock
- 100% outline logo