ganzosrevenge
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so i'm configuring a jackson, and here's what I have so far... any feedback, questions, if i'm missing anything, is appreciated!
Dream Jackson
Jason
Bonus points if someone could make a composite of what this thing would look like!
Dream Jackson
- [FONT=Times New Roman, serif]SL1 with Soloist Neck shape, right handed body[/FONT]
- [FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Neck-thru where neck and center section are a SINGLE piece of quartersawn maple. (No Joints anywhere and a dinky-style tung oil finish)[/FONT]
- [FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Wings are Made of old-growth Mahogany[/FONT]
- [FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Ferrari Red into Black 2-tone burst[/FONT]
- [FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Red Binding around body[/FONT]
- [FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Jack goes on top of the body, black jack, strat-style[/FONT]
- [FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Ebony board, 24 jumbo stainless steel frets, with Abalone block inlays, 12” to 16” radius, 25.5” scale[/FONT]
- [FONT=Times New Roman, serif]BiFlex truss rod (to correct concave and convex bowing)[/FONT]
- [FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Truss Rod adjustment at the headstock, no truss rod cover[/FONT]
- [FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Surrounding BiFlex truss rod will be 2 graphite rods running the length of the neck. One graphite rod on each side of the truss rod to enhance neck stiffness.[/FONT]
- [FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Red Binding around the board that goes over the edge of the frets[/FONT]
- [FONT=Times New Roman, serif]1.5625” width into 2.25” butt (standard 6 string guitar)[/FONT]
- [FONT=Times New Roman, serif]SL1 neck profile[/FONT]
- [FONT=Times New Roman, serif]2 Seymour Duncan SSL-1s (neck: rwrp, middle: normal) and one Seymour Duncan Custom 5 (with 4 conductor wiring) in bridge, arranged in a lone-star wiring configuration[/FONT]
- [FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Position 1: full bridge in series (tone 2)[/FONT]
- [FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Position 2: inside coil of bridge in parallel with middle pickup (tone 1 and tone 2)[/FONT]
- [FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Position 3: middle pickup (tone 1)[/FONT]
- [FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Position 4: middle pickup in parallel with neck pickup (tone 1)[/FONT]
- [FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Position 5: neck pickup (tone 1)[/FONT]
- [FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Switch to be used is the super 5-way like on a LoneStar strat, or strat with S-1 switching[/FONT]
- [FONT=Times New Roman, serif]No bezels around anything, no pickguard, pickups hard mounted to body and body is rear routed for necessary electronics.[/FONT]
- [FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Routing: H-S-S and all pickups are to be BLACK, HB has open coils[/FONT]
- [FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Potentiometers:[/FONT]
- [FONT=Times New Roman, serif]250k bourns low-friction Volume potentiometer with audio taper[/FONT]
- [FONT=Times New Roman, serif]250k bourns audio taper low-friction tone potentiometer with a Luxe 1951 to 1958 for stratocaster Paper-in-Oil capacitor for the two single coils[/FONT]
- [FONT=Times New Roman, serif]500k bourns audio taper low-friction tone potentiometer with a Luxe 1956 to 1960 repro bumblebee capacitor for bridge humbucker.[/FONT]
- [FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Knobs are metal domes. Volume is black, Tone 1 is VERY dark red, tone 2 is heritage cherry[/FONT]
- [FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Headstock: Strat shaped, with a black Jackson logo (a la the adrian smith signature) with Schaller Locking tuners, and bone nut cut to accommodate .010 to .046 strings[/FONT]
- [FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Schaller straplocks, with one straplock on the smaller horn (a la Jimi) to accommodate for a left-handed player.[/FONT]
- [FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Schaller locking tuners, the schaller straplocks, the stratocaster style jackplate, need to be black in color[/FONT]
- [FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Where the bridge clamps to the body, the ferrules go into the body, there is to be NO Paint in that area[/FONT]
- [FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Thin nitrocellulose finish over the body, tung oil finish on neck (as mentioned above)[/FONT]
Jason
Bonus points if someone could make a composite of what this thing would look like!
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