Jackson welcomes a new guitar in 2008 to its venerable Rhoads line, the RR5FR Rhoads, which has an alder body, rock maple neck-through-body, compound-radius rosewood fingerboard, Seymour Duncan JB (bridge) and Jazz (neck) humbucking pickups, a Floyd Rose FRT-O2000 double-locking two-point tremolo and black hardware.
Price: $1099.99 Buy now!
User Reviews:
Feature:
It was really easy when it came to rearranging the controls on the pickguard so that i had a single volume. the FR on this guitar is awesome I never have to retune it unless in changing tunings and even thats easy.
Quality:
Top of the line instrument. Best ive ever played.
Value:
definatly worth every penny.
Desirability:
definatly a guitar that i will keep in my collction
Sound:
This guitar has the most amazing sound ive ever heard. I’ve played several differnt types of guitars (Deans, Gibson, ESP) none of them even compare in quality.
Ease of Use:
This thing has such a fast neck its unbelievable. its got a wide but thin neck which make it easier for me to shred.
Support:
I havent had to call Jackson to get anything fixed but i know that thie service is the best from people i know.
Overall:
I love this guitar so much that I’m saving up to buy another in black.
The Jackson DKMG Arch Top is much more than just a pretty face. The DKMG Archtop electric now features EMG 81 and 85 humbuckers. Active, pro EMGs in an archtop guitar for this amazing price! Other features include maple neck with a bound rosewood fingerboard, Jackson’s Piranha fingerboard inlay, 24 jumbo frets, 25.5-inch scale, and a licensed Low Profile Floyd Rose locking tremolo. The DKMG is topped off with black hardware.
Price: $799.99 Buy now!
User Reviews:
Feature:
The alder in this guitar really makes a difference. The floyd is awesome and stays in tune, and the knobs on this guitar really react to your fingers. I like how it has a 3-way switch but is a 5-way style, that increases speed.
Quality:
Top notch luthiery.
Value:
This product could be a little cheaper.
Desirability:
This guitar just screams metal. The headstock looks capable of head slicing. When you see this guitar it just says, “You mess with me, I’ll hunt you down and kill you.”
Sound:
The wails this thing can dish out are awesome. The EMGs realy make a difference. The bridge pickup has just the right amount of treble and has the in your face, I’m gonna kill you humbucker sound but the bite of a single coil. The neck pickup just smells of creamy, bassy solos able to compete with banshee screams. The sound is just crushing and ripping.
Ease of Use:
A lot of people say emgs pick up your picking more so you have to clean up your playing. That’s wrong. They still pick up harmonix really well but are easy to play. Either I have really clean playing or these emgs are not as sensitive as hyped. The floyd take some getting used to as do the jumbo frets.
Overall:
This guitar is a shredders dream. If I had to choose between this and an 1300$ Ibanez RG, I’d choose this.
The Jackson Pro RR3 Randy Rhoads model has its rootes in the very early days at Jackson. The late, great Randy Rhoads approached them with a design idea based on the classic “V”. Together they created a whole new rock and roll icon. This version features an Alder body with a Flame Maple veneer top (on transparent finishes), Seymour Duncan humbuckers, a 25.5 in. scale bolt-on Maple neck and a compound radius Rosewood fingerboard with 22 jumbo frets. Also, black hardware including a Jackson Low Profile double locking tremolo. Made in Japan.
Price: $699.99 Buy now!
User Reviews:
Feature:
Locking trem. obviously works good except for the fact that when you do a pinch harmonic or harmonic squel and use the trem. it cancels them out.
Quality:
Built good not many problems that I’ve seen or heard of.
Value:
Paying for a tremelo and pretty paint.
Desirability:
Nice paint job but when you play the neck and head sags down making it hard to play.
Sound:
You have 2 pickups fighting each other one for metal and the other for jazz just makes a weird growl sound, cannot palm mute whatsoever.
Ease of Use:
Not easy to get a great sound unless you have your amp perfect and an expensive one at that.
Support:
Haven’t had to use it.
Overall:
Not much to it, hard to get good sound have to hold it just right for comfort and cannot sit to play with the V but it’s a Jackson so overall it will be to your liking.
A Jackson classic. Alder body, quartersawn eastern hard rock maple neck (through body), compound radius ebony fingerboard, Seymour Duncan humbucking pickups, Floyd Rose Original tremolo and black hardware. Available with flame maple top and chrome hardware on trans finishes.
Price: $2099.00 Buy now!
User Reviews:
Feature:
Comes with all the standard stuff for a guitar of this caliber. The knobs are Volume and Tone, which is really all you need.
Quality:
Solid as a rock and you can hear it and feel it. You actually pay for what you get.
Value:
Its alot of money for a guitar. But it’s alot more guitar for the money.
Desirability:
Look at it!
Sound:
It is perfect. The Semour Duncans are perfect. The sound it so clear you can do harmonics anywhere on the neck.
Ease of Use:
Very fast guitar. You need to play it hard to really enjoy it though. And if you have smaller hands, than you might have a tough time with the slightly longer scale.
Support:
Never called.
Overall:
This is a pro guitar, so it
USA-made Jackson Soloist! Fast-playing neck with a compound (12 in. to 16 in.) fingerboard radius and mother of pearl Shark Fin position inlays. Bound fingerboard and headstock with inlaid mother of pearl Jackson logo. CTS pots and Switchcraft switches.
Price: $1799.99 Buy now!
User Reviews:
Feature:
Crafted with great attention to detail,floyd rose,duncans,ebony-this guitar has it all.
Quality:
Very solid,probably not as tuff as strat but close.Body,neck an machine heads are jackson made and those things jackson makes the best,-tremolo is original floyd rose,duncan,switchcraft(no less than the best components)
Value:
Its worth the money,- and its not cheap.I paid 1400$ second hand from u.s.In australia it would be over 3000 u.s. $ bought from shop
Desirability:
When i hold my strat its a instrument,-and when i hold jackson its a weapon.Looks powerfull and agressive.Oldschool metal look:sharkfins,pointy headstock,lot of character.Makes you proud to hold it.Transparen finish is awesome.Painted back of the neck(very smooth)-notice how new guitars have too rough and unlacquered necks.
Sound:
I never tried the stock pickups
Support:
In australia when i ordered another jackson it took it 5 months to come
Overall:
I keep changing things on it,pickups,i put afterburner,d tuna,-probably will install sustainer and vintage rails in neck to get the strat sound as well.It will be awesome(dont know what 59 sounds like in the neck but this guitar is more strat than anything else)
Protect your investment with this gig bag specially designed by Jackson. Fits Soloist and Dinky.
Price: $34.95 Buy now!
Jackson welcomes a new guitar in 2008 to its venerable Rhoads line, the RR24M Rhoads. The Spartan-looking model has an alder body and rock maple neck-through-body, with a compound-radius maple fingerboard, body bevel, matching logo, 24 jumbo frets, EMG 81 pickup, a Floyd Rose FRT-O2000 double-locking two-point tremolo and black hardware.
Price: $1099.99 Buy now!
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Jackson’s instruments are built to handle hard lives on the road, and are ready to take whatever players will throw at them – that’s the just the way it is, and Jackson won’t have it any other way.
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The Jackson DXMG has classic Jackson look – a reverse headstock, dinky-style body, cool neck inlays, and EMG-HZ humbuckers! Basswood body, bolt-on maple neck, compound radius rosewood fingerboard, EMG-HZ humbucking pickups, Jackson double-locking tremolo and black hardware.
Price: $529.99 Buy now!
User Reviews:
Feature:
it has a great tremolo
Quality:
the neck is awsome it is a flat neck so its very fast playing and the inlays are really cool
Value:
great price even though i got mine for 400 and theirs is 500
Desirability:
this guitar is sleek and i love it
Sound:
this guitar is awsome it has the passive emgs which i love you cant beat its tone its great for any kind of music
Ease of Use:
the reason it gets an 8 is because the tremolo makes it hard to tune and change the strings
Support:
i didnt get the guitar from this company but i got my case from them and the sales rep was a little snappy and rude
Overall:
i always wanted a low price guitar with emgs