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OK, my brother called me last night and told me that he found a cool USA neck-through Jackson in a little hole in the wall music store up the street from me. It sounded like an SL-1 in EDS from what he described and he said the guy was asking $699 with a case. So this morning I take a ride up there and there it is - It looks to me like it is an early nineties "USA Soloist", the one with the Jackson pickups and Schaller trem. It's a 24 fret neck through, s-s-h pickup config, ebony board bound with abalone sharks and "Jackson Made in USA" logo. The color looks like a darker version of EDS but is possibly that color that is the same color as EDS but without the swirl. It's got a BL pickup in the bridge. It's pretty beat up, and has lots of scratches, dings and a couple of pretty nasty quarter size chips. To show what a knucklehead the owner is/was, it's got a big old Rolling Stones "lips" sticker on the front of it. The case is beat to crap too. I did play it and it plays great and sounds good too. The frets dont look too bad and there is no major damage other than the previously mentioned "child abuse" - i.e. no headstock breaks or detectable cracks anywhere. It looks beat up but solid. A "player" as it were. Anyway, I offered the guy $550 out the door for it. He said it was on consigment and he couldn't do better than $650. I told him when he gets to $575 to give me a call [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]. It looks like this one from the gallery, even has the exact pickups, could it be the same guitar after falling off a truck maybe?...
http://www.jcfonline.com/gallery/jac...olo-eerie1.jpg
While I was there.....I asked if they had any other Jacksons or Charvels and the guy goes in the back and comes back with what looked like a old burgundy looking Charvel Model 3 or 4. It was in ok shape except for some pretty bad buckle rash on the back and a very broken Schaller trem - and I do mean broken as in, in multiple broken peices, lol. All of the other parts were there save 1 lockdown screw for the locking nut. I took the electronics plate off and it was all stock with the Jackson pickups and active electronics. The only thing I wasn't sure about was that it had 3 toggles instead of a 5-way blade switch but I am pretty sure it is a Model 3 or 4. Oh yeah it has a bolt-on 22 fret rosewood neck with sharks and is back-routed with pointy headstock. It looks just like this one from the gallery...
http://www.jcfonline.com/gallery/cha...8658-chuck.jpg
...but I thought Model 4's were neck-through, I could be wrong though. I offered the guy $200 for it as-is with a cheap aftermarket case. I told him I would be back after a while but after thinking about it, I am thinking more like $150 and I don't even really care about the crappy case. I don't think finding a bridge for it would be a big deal, as a matter of fact I have a chrome Schaller bridge but it's got black hardware. In any case, I figure around $40-50 for a used replacement bridge.
So what do you guys think?...Am I right about what these guitars are and what about the values of these? Any input appreciated. TIA -Frank
http://www.jcfonline.com/gallery/jac...olo-eerie1.jpg
While I was there.....I asked if they had any other Jacksons or Charvels and the guy goes in the back and comes back with what looked like a old burgundy looking Charvel Model 3 or 4. It was in ok shape except for some pretty bad buckle rash on the back and a very broken Schaller trem - and I do mean broken as in, in multiple broken peices, lol. All of the other parts were there save 1 lockdown screw for the locking nut. I took the electronics plate off and it was all stock with the Jackson pickups and active electronics. The only thing I wasn't sure about was that it had 3 toggles instead of a 5-way blade switch but I am pretty sure it is a Model 3 or 4. Oh yeah it has a bolt-on 22 fret rosewood neck with sharks and is back-routed with pointy headstock. It looks just like this one from the gallery...
http://www.jcfonline.com/gallery/cha...8658-chuck.jpg
...but I thought Model 4's were neck-through, I could be wrong though. I offered the guy $200 for it as-is with a cheap aftermarket case. I told him I would be back after a while but after thinking about it, I am thinking more like $150 and I don't even really care about the crappy case. I don't think finding a bridge for it would be a big deal, as a matter of fact I have a chrome Schaller bridge but it's got black hardware. In any case, I figure around $40-50 for a used replacement bridge.
So what do you guys think?...Am I right about what these guitars are and what about the values of these? Any input appreciated. TIA -Frank
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