New Jacksons for 2010

[MetalliBurke]

Yeah, rosewood is fucking sponge material man.

Forget to take your Ritalin today? Or is reading comp an everyday struggle for you? I did not say rosewood was "sponge material" -- I said it was softer, felt softer to me. ie, spongy, perhaps a bit slower. I did not say that was a fatal defect, indeed might be good for your style or particular set-up. I merely indicated a desire for an ebony option. I play maple, ebony, and rosewood and to be perfectly honest, without comparing the exact same guitar with different fretboards, it would be hard to know for certain which would sound and feel best in a given situation. Believe it or not people really do take the time to compare such things. You should try it sometime.

[DRM]

Forget to take your Ritalin today? Or is reading comp an everyday struggle for you? I did not say rosewood was "sponge material" -- I said it was softer, felt softer to me. ie, spongy, perhaps a bit slower. I did not say that was a fatal defect, indeed might be good for your style or particular set-up. I merely indicated a desire for an ebony option. I play maple, ebony, and rosewood and to be perfectly honest, without comparing the exact same guitar with different fretboards, it would be hard to know for certain which would sound and feel best in a given situation. Believe it or not people really do take the time to compare such things. You should try it sometime.

Did you forget to apply Vagisil today? Calm down.

[bibz]

You can bang about like that, but they're all hardwoods man. Blind tested you couldnt pick a fretboard wood from the sound, or feel. Sure there are properties of the woods that are different, density and grain, but it's hardly applicable in this application. Mainly I was just poking fun in the superlative you used, s'all

[RacerX]

Damn, we got some agro newbs this month!

[Tmoran]

Yup, SLAT3 = MIJ because of the 3, if Jackson is being consistent with their naming.

I had one of the MIJ "SL2H" Sam Ash archtop Soloists and I couldn't get right with it, but yeah, if you've been missing the SLAT's this is great news.

I don't know if rosewood has just gotten really awful over the last decade and a half but I just do not care for the rosewood I see on newer guitars, it's all lumpy with huge grain pores most of the time, not nice and tight and smooth like my old Fusion HH. :dunno:

remember their are many different variations in rosewood. Back in the day Brazilian rosewood was the norm or even east indian rosewood. Those two seemed to be of the highest quality. These days it seems anything resembling the color or grain pattern of rosewood is slapped with that generic label. I too though have to agree with you. The rosewood of late seems to be grainy and dry. Taking on more of a lighter tannish brown or ugly rust color. I remember the days of when it would say rosewood fretboard and I would get tingles down my spine at seeing what nice grain pattern it would have and the feel. Now I cringe and look elsewhere.

[Nagash02]

I'd love some innovation at NAMMs, like 24-fret RRs with two pickups and a midrange neck-through floyded Warrior (like a WR5FR for example), baritones and more 7-strings. Jacksons are very nice guitars but their catalogue doesn't seem very versatile (all guitars have the exact same pickups, no baritones, only 2 sevens, etc)