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I'm gonna be in Tokyo starting in september so I decided to get a Jackson Stars. These appear to be comparable to the Japanese neck-thrus we get here, about the same price for the base model, and they come with a Schaller trem instead of the Takeuchi!
Here's the catch.. I'm big on maple fingerboards, I dislike rosewood and don't really know how I feel about ebony (the models I've seen come with bound ebony).
The neat thing? Jackson Stars has a nice semi-custom order system. You give 'em a specific model number you want, and tell 'em how you want it and they can do it for you!
So, I'm going for a KS-J2 (KellyStar) in dark metallic red, and I'm gonna get a maple fingerboard, no binding, no inlays, and the whole neck, fingerboard and headstock will be natural satin finish. Pretty sweet!
It comes out to be a little bit more than what you would pay in a store for the production model (I paid a little over $1300 US for mine) but it's worth it to have a sweet Japanese neck thru Jackson tailored to your specs.
Should be able to pick it up at the store in Tokyo at the end of October or beginning of November *sigh* I'm gonna be fidgety for the whole wait haha!
Anyone else have experience with Jackson Stars? Whaddya think?
By the way for those interested, you can order a semi-custom from Ishibashi Music, they'll give you about the same price as anyone else (I got a quote from another store and Ishibashi was slightly more expensive but I woulda had to pay shipping or travel further to get to the other store), and they'll deal with you in English where the others (like the other store I contacted) mostly speak Japanese.
Here's the catch.. I'm big on maple fingerboards, I dislike rosewood and don't really know how I feel about ebony (the models I've seen come with bound ebony).
The neat thing? Jackson Stars has a nice semi-custom order system. You give 'em a specific model number you want, and tell 'em how you want it and they can do it for you!
So, I'm going for a KS-J2 (KellyStar) in dark metallic red, and I'm gonna get a maple fingerboard, no binding, no inlays, and the whole neck, fingerboard and headstock will be natural satin finish. Pretty sweet!
It comes out to be a little bit more than what you would pay in a store for the production model (I paid a little over $1300 US for mine) but it's worth it to have a sweet Japanese neck thru Jackson tailored to your specs.
Should be able to pick it up at the store in Tokyo at the end of October or beginning of November *sigh* I'm gonna be fidgety for the whole wait haha!
Anyone else have experience with Jackson Stars? Whaddya think?
By the way for those interested, you can order a semi-custom from Ishibashi Music, they'll give you about the same price as anyone else (I got a quote from another store and Ishibashi was slightly more expensive but I woulda had to pay shipping or travel further to get to the other store), and they'll deal with you in English where the others (like the other store I contacted) mostly speak Japanese.
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