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OK I don't have the "money shots" yet, just some shots of a work in progress. This is the '87 Jackson Strat that I won in the auction discussed in this thread.
All in all, I am very pleased. I have been playing this thing solid for a week, and haven't even touched the setup. Normally I am more of a neck-thru WR1 kind of guy, and dinky's feel like toys in my hands. This thing is no dinky! This is the full-size strat body, and it is SOLID. Everything is nice and tight, no neck pocket cracks, and HEAVY. My bathroom scale has this guitar at almost 10 pounds. One thing you notice right away with the unbound neck is the thick slab of ebony. For you corksniffers, it's 2.55" on the edges and 2.90" in the middle. The Jackson '87 catalog actually makes a point of mentioning the thickness of their boards. The fingerboard radius looks to be 15".
The old school bengal kicks ass! The condition of the body is fantastic.
In this pic you can see the wood grain. If anyone can tell me what this boat-anchor wood is, I'd appreciate it. It has a very tight, unpronounced grain. "L. Everett" is written in the neck cavity (a name I don't recognize).
Now I have cracked the case regarding the trem on this guitar. It appears this guitar has undergone a JT-6 to OFR conversion. Both trem posts appear to have a ring of paint excavated around them:
I guess the original anchors were extracted. That was probably a "bad move", but the OFR functions nicely and it's not that visible. The studs are a bit on the loose side in the anchors, however. Is there more to the mystery? The nut and stringlock were converted to an OFR nut, leaving the "arrow type" truss rod cover with a single screw flapping in the wind.
The pickups are a SD Distortion with two SD Hot Rails. They date to 2007 and are not original. The wiring was well-done. You can also see a bit more of the wood grain on the back:
I'm really getting the Lynch tone with this guitar. Stay tuned for pics of the neck!
All in all, I am very pleased. I have been playing this thing solid for a week, and haven't even touched the setup. Normally I am more of a neck-thru WR1 kind of guy, and dinky's feel like toys in my hands. This thing is no dinky! This is the full-size strat body, and it is SOLID. Everything is nice and tight, no neck pocket cracks, and HEAVY. My bathroom scale has this guitar at almost 10 pounds. One thing you notice right away with the unbound neck is the thick slab of ebony. For you corksniffers, it's 2.55" on the edges and 2.90" in the middle. The Jackson '87 catalog actually makes a point of mentioning the thickness of their boards. The fingerboard radius looks to be 15".
The old school bengal kicks ass! The condition of the body is fantastic.
In this pic you can see the wood grain. If anyone can tell me what this boat-anchor wood is, I'd appreciate it. It has a very tight, unpronounced grain. "L. Everett" is written in the neck cavity (a name I don't recognize).
Now I have cracked the case regarding the trem on this guitar. It appears this guitar has undergone a JT-6 to OFR conversion. Both trem posts appear to have a ring of paint excavated around them:
I guess the original anchors were extracted. That was probably a "bad move", but the OFR functions nicely and it's not that visible. The studs are a bit on the loose side in the anchors, however. Is there more to the mystery? The nut and stringlock were converted to an OFR nut, leaving the "arrow type" truss rod cover with a single screw flapping in the wind.
The pickups are a SD Distortion with two SD Hot Rails. They date to 2007 and are not original. The wiring was well-done. You can also see a bit more of the wood grain on the back:
I'm really getting the Lynch tone with this guitar. Stay tuned for pics of the neck!
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