1985 Hot Rod Flames Soloist

[Joe_Steeler]

Re: 1985 Hot Rod Flames Soloist

I've always like flames finish.
That guitar smokes!!

Congrats

[BLOOD SPLATTER]

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Way most coolest Jim!!Congrats!!Another great score!!Gotta love that HRF graphic!!

[charveljunkie]

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Jim,
You lucky dog!!!!
Man that soloist is smokin' [img]/images/graemlins/headbang.gif[/img]

[fuel0707]

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What a great find. It sounds like good kharma at work. It will be interesting to see if someone can offer up any extra on this one, given the lack of serial number and the no-backplate issue. Very nice looking finish, too.

[pro-fusion]

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Oh man, that is so freakin' awesome!!!! [img]/images/graemlins/toast.gif[/img]

Congrats on a great score. I'm gonna have to get into an SD Soloist one of the days when I have some spare cash laying around.

[Blazphemer]

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Awesome!!!

by the way Jim, I bought your old black Shannon [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]( i had a thread on it a few months ago.)

the one you sent to Denmark(serial: UO 6365)!

the previous owner gave me the shipping dispatch note, and it said Jim Shine on it, its a small world [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

do you have any cool stories about it?

[Jim Shine]

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Hey there! Sorry. No stories. That was a nice guitar. It was the newest Jackson I have ever owned. Cool to know a JCF member now owns it!

[83SanDimas]

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Very nice Jim. That ine is a keeper

[guitarshredder]

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Thanks! Here is a close up of the face.


The flames are orange pearl or fine metallic. The flames are outlined with baby blue.

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Command and Conquer! [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/headbang.gif[/img]

[Final Sacrifice]

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That is hot. I don't normally like flames, but that is killer.

[mm2002]

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Nice score Jim! I love that control layout too, on/off for each pup and a master volume. sweet.

[No Use]

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can someone explain to me what the difference is, neck and heel wise, between an SD and a current soloist? a friend of mine has an '85 all-white (mathcing head) kahlered, but i don;t find anything special about it. the things like, fret-ended binding's cool, but the thinner neck didn;t do anything for me.

[Jack Napalm]

Re: 1985 Hot Rod Flames Soloist

That's a nice guitar. Congrats!

[Oregon Jason]

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Great score. This just goes to show that there are still plenty of cool guitars out there.

Jason

[xenophobe]

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I currently have two with the large bat profile and owned one other with it. When I find the calipers I will measure them. I know the Rising Sun has the largest size of the three. Bigger than either '83 Rhoads I had.

I have heard that employee guitars can lack serial numbers. Perhaps the speculation is true. You figure the company doesn't record the guitar so it probably based the sale on parts or just wrote the parts off as damaged.

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There very well could be more than four typical backshapes then. Only way to tell would be to get a pretty wide sampling... since the necks were shaped by hand I'm sure there is a lot of fluctionation, but I'm sure most guitars could call into four or five categories. The NAMM Archtop I owned had a neck that was literally more than 1" thick.

Being routed for a trem cover, but not having one installed is odd. I know they would not route it if you asked them not to. I'd do a check for flaws under the paint, etc... You could be right about the parts thing... I'm pretty sure that was the case with having to "buy" a seralized neckplate.