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Hi, everyone!
My name is Jay, and I'm just coming back to this board after 3 or 4 years. This story starts out shitty, but it has a happy ending.
Basically, I bought an SL2H from Guitar Center in 2002. (Here is a thread about it.)
It was in the dent-n-scratch pile, and I got it really cheap ($599). Someone had dropped a screwdriver or something on the back and chipped through the finish. Anyway, I LOVED the guitar. I didn't really know that much about Jacksons, and I bought mine on a whim, but I really started to love this guitar once I got it home.
Fast-Forward a few years.....
I live in New Orleans, and Katrina came in 2005 and flooded everything. Unfortunately, this SL2H was left in my house when I fled from the storm. A Month or 2 after the storm, they finally let us go back to our homes and see the damage. So I go "home" to see what really happened, and what (if anything) I could salvage.
Here is a pic of my "guitar room" when I FIRST walked into it after the storm. There was 6-7 feet of water (nasty-ass brown pooey water) in this room. The carpet was originally white, and so were my walls. Anyway, you'll see the Jackson case in the lower left corner:
Here is a pic with the case open:
You can see that the guitar was actually wet. Somehow, the case must've been floating for most of the time, because there really should've been more water in there. I had a Fender in its case too, and that case had puddles of water in it and WAY more rust on the guitar. I'm assuming that Jackson's cases are a little more water-tight than a few other cases I had. Not waterproof by any means, but better than the other ones! Any metal that wasn't chromed got all rusted over, and the neck wasn't exactly straight anymore. I took the guitar out, dried it off, and I brought it back to my temorary home and stuck it in a closet with ths intention of bringing it back to life one day...whenever I got back "home."
Fast Forward to pretty recently...
That time finally came.
I finally rebuilt my house and all that stuff, and I moved back home. I also decided that it was time to bring the SL2H back, so I ordered electronics from Stewmac, and I just ran to GuitarCenter and bought 2 pickups and a few other random things. I was able to use the original Flotd Rose after cleaning the rust off of the black pieces. I also used the original pickup rings and knobs. I'm still amazed that these things are still silver (well, mostly. LOL). The neck needed an adjustment, so I did that. The frets are all level, but there are some small problems with the finish around where the fretboard meets the neck, but whatever. It's amazing that this guitar is still a guitar!
Now, I'm actually playing my SL2H again. It's awesome, and I'm really happy. And once I finally got it going again, I realized how awesome this guitar actually is and how much I enjoy playing it. So I kind of decided that I wanted another one. I decided I either wanted another SL2H or an SL1, but I wasn't really ready to pay the prices.
I have been browsing this forum recently just reading up on SL2Hs and SL1s and looking at y'all's pictures and stuff. Then, the other day, this user named "Jacksonite," who apparently owns a store in Louisiana, made a post about selling some Jacksons at great prices. I ended up buying an SL1 from him (natural finish). It's this one:
It's already shipped, and I should have it early next week!!!!!!
So starting next week, not only will have my revived blue Sl2H, but I will have a brand new (to me) Natural SL1!
That's it. I just wanted to share my happy SL2H story.
Jay.
My name is Jay, and I'm just coming back to this board after 3 or 4 years. This story starts out shitty, but it has a happy ending.
Basically, I bought an SL2H from Guitar Center in 2002. (Here is a thread about it.)
It was in the dent-n-scratch pile, and I got it really cheap ($599). Someone had dropped a screwdriver or something on the back and chipped through the finish. Anyway, I LOVED the guitar. I didn't really know that much about Jacksons, and I bought mine on a whim, but I really started to love this guitar once I got it home.
Fast-Forward a few years.....
I live in New Orleans, and Katrina came in 2005 and flooded everything. Unfortunately, this SL2H was left in my house when I fled from the storm. A Month or 2 after the storm, they finally let us go back to our homes and see the damage. So I go "home" to see what really happened, and what (if anything) I could salvage.
Here is a pic of my "guitar room" when I FIRST walked into it after the storm. There was 6-7 feet of water (nasty-ass brown pooey water) in this room. The carpet was originally white, and so were my walls. Anyway, you'll see the Jackson case in the lower left corner:
Here is a pic with the case open:
You can see that the guitar was actually wet. Somehow, the case must've been floating for most of the time, because there really should've been more water in there. I had a Fender in its case too, and that case had puddles of water in it and WAY more rust on the guitar. I'm assuming that Jackson's cases are a little more water-tight than a few other cases I had. Not waterproof by any means, but better than the other ones! Any metal that wasn't chromed got all rusted over, and the neck wasn't exactly straight anymore. I took the guitar out, dried it off, and I brought it back to my temorary home and stuck it in a closet with ths intention of bringing it back to life one day...whenever I got back "home."
Fast Forward to pretty recently...
That time finally came.
I finally rebuilt my house and all that stuff, and I moved back home. I also decided that it was time to bring the SL2H back, so I ordered electronics from Stewmac, and I just ran to GuitarCenter and bought 2 pickups and a few other random things. I was able to use the original Flotd Rose after cleaning the rust off of the black pieces. I also used the original pickup rings and knobs. I'm still amazed that these things are still silver (well, mostly. LOL). The neck needed an adjustment, so I did that. The frets are all level, but there are some small problems with the finish around where the fretboard meets the neck, but whatever. It's amazing that this guitar is still a guitar!
Now, I'm actually playing my SL2H again. It's awesome, and I'm really happy. And once I finally got it going again, I realized how awesome this guitar actually is and how much I enjoy playing it. So I kind of decided that I wanted another one. I decided I either wanted another SL2H or an SL1, but I wasn't really ready to pay the prices.
I have been browsing this forum recently just reading up on SL2Hs and SL1s and looking at y'all's pictures and stuff. Then, the other day, this user named "Jacksonite," who apparently owns a store in Louisiana, made a post about selling some Jacksons at great prices. I ended up buying an SL1 from him (natural finish). It's this one:
It's already shipped, and I should have it early next week!!!!!!
So starting next week, not only will have my revived blue Sl2H, but I will have a brand new (to me) Natural SL1!
That's it. I just wanted to share my happy SL2H story.
Jay.
Maybe he has special insurance to cover musical instruments?
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