Time to call bullshit on Jackson USA

[rjohnstone]

The binding is not messed up. That's how it's supposed to look, it's two separate pieces.

He's talking about the side dots Joe.
The first fret marker is not centered in the binding, but the 12th fret markers are.
Little details, but I can see it being annoying as hell.

[pianoguyy]

He's talking about the side dots Joe.
The first fret marker is not centered in the binding, but the 12th fret markers are.
Little details, but I can see it being annoying as hell.

no, they were different people with different guitars.
(or so I thought)

[ed]

I thought he was talking about the hole in the binding on the part that comes from the headstock. Also those tuners looks pretty bad.

[hunterkolb]

I thought he was talking about the hole in the binding on the part that comes from the headstock. Also those tuners looks pretty bad.

I noticed that too, that hole is kinda ugly. Don't know how that one passed through

[toejam]

no, they were different people with different guitars.
(or so I thought)

This.

[toejam]

I thought he was talking about the hole in the binding on the part that comes from the headstock. Also those tuners looks pretty bad.

Is it a hole? I never even noticed that tiny mark. It kind looks like a very slight discoloration of the maple.

[metalhobo]

Is it a hole? I never even noticed that tiny mark. It kind looks like a very slight discoloration of the maple.

I think he's talking about the gap between the point of the headstock binding and the neck binding, right below the middle of the nut. it's an easy fix for a luthier to do, as you just have to make a filler from some spare ivoroid binding and acetone, but it's also definitely something that should have been done right from the factory.

[gort]

That sucks.
I know how if feels unboxing your new guitar and seeing a fault like that.
Jackson screwed up my Masterbuilt King V three years ago.
One tuner was mounted crooked and the other mounting holes for the Schaller tuners were not cut deep enough.
So they stick out a bit and don't sit flush on the backside.
Also they messed up the binding transition from the headstock to the neck, on both sides.

I ended up keeping her because Jackson stopped accepting Masterbuilt orders and so my dealer couldn't place another one.
By the way that guitar did cost me $6000+
At least they didn't mess up the side dots on mine. Guess I was lucky?


https://imgur.com/a/I6CGQ9O

Do you have any more pics of your master build guitar? I'd love to see it.

[groverj3]

Not to be "that guy," but the misaligned side dot is the only actual issue I see here.

[PowerTube]

I just looked at my 2004 SL2H models. What do you know? The side dots aren't aligned on them, either. I never paid attention to it before and never cared. These aren't Custom Shop, but still, they're the USA Select series.

[pianoguyy]

worth repeating

On a whim, I've got one of my MIM Charvel guitars sitting beside me. I checked the dots.
They are, but aren't, aligned.
It's one of those optical illusions.

What I mean is - if you look it from a playing position, they are in a straight line.
But if you look at them as if inspecting the neck... from the tremolo. Then they aren't straight.

The reason they aren't straight is because the neck isn't "even". The various thicknesses and curvatures at various spots cause the dots to be put at different places.