Which Jackson's had MOP "Jackson" put in the heads

[slayer]

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My 1993 CS archtop Soloist has the black lines one, very cool!! Jack.

[pro-fusion]

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The MOP logo with the black lines is so amazingly, ungodly cool!!! But then, everything is cool about the old USA archtops... [img]/images/graemlins/drool2.gif[/img]

I had never noticed that detail before in any AT pictures. Wow.

[StukaJU87]

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[ QUOTE ]
The MOP logo with the black lines is so amazingly, ungodly cool!!! But then, everything is cool about the old USA archtops... [img]/images/graemlins/drool2.gif[/img]

I had never noticed that detail before in any AT pictures. Wow.

[/ QUOTE ] Just for the record, mine is not an archtop, but a 1993 RR Custom.

[cruster]

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My preference is:

MOP with black lines
MOP
Abalone

That dark abalone just looks a little too Vegas for me, but it sure beats a screen.

[charvel750]

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Way cool to know that the first mop logo was done on an AT Soloist in 1987. File that one in the history books, kids. For s&g's here's my '93 Explorer Custom with the black lined mop logo on a reverse head with quilted maple:

[YetAnotherOne]

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To me it depends on the finish. Abalone can look a little busy on a black headstock but I think it looks fine here:

[Manyaxes]

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Joe can you post a pic of the whole Explorer again? [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

[cruster]

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On the blue it does look a bit better. Now, if it had the black lines... [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

Nice looking headstock. I've only ever seen one (US) Jackson live and in person. It was blue, had MOP in the headstock, and I believe it was a Soloist (now that I actually know a small amount of something about Jackson's). For some reason, it just sticks with me as *the* look that a Jackson should have. Even though I've seen some pics here of some other awesome looking guitars (except the dragon dealer thingy in the eBay section...that's just wrong). Weird, huh?

[model1]

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shaded mop rules [img]/images/graemlins/headbang.gif[/img]

[Newc]

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Shaded MOP on natural flamed maple head

[xenophobe]

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That's abalone, not MOP. I wanted to get a logo like that on my XTRR, but Fender said they couldn't do a abalone logo with red border on a black headstock like that... either that or they wouldn't.

[Newc]

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Ah, I see. I keep thinking Abalone is more greenish - don't know why [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

[Soloist1]

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There are a bunch of different kinds of abalone Matt. Red, Green and Paua are the most common. I don't know if there are any other varieties besides those three. They all look different. I think that both above are Paua. The brightness and color spectrum varies a lot even though it is of the same variety also. It depends where they harvest them from, where they eat, weather and etc....etc....etc. I found out way more than I will ever need to know about the stuff when I was hunting down some abalone for my GMW that Lee is building.