
Jacksonez "Shred Axe"
This is basically put together from parts I scored off of eBay. I wanted to make the quintissential "hair metal axe".
The neck is actually a custom-made job by a luthier up in Canada called Liberatore. The specs are true Jackson U.S.A. (ebony fretboard, real mother-of-pearl inlays, etc.) but in a bolt-on neck format meant to fit Ibanez bodies. When it came to me it had this shitty lightning bolt headstock logo. I got rid of that and faked a Jackson logo just for creds since everything about it (including headstock shape) is dead-on Jackson quality.
The body is an 80's-era Ibanez RG basswood body. Though you can't tell from this pic, it is FLUORESCENT ORANGE!!!
The pickups are a work-in-progress. The middle is a Fender Texas Special clone (all pickups are actually manufactured overseas by GFS), and I dig it. The bridge pickup is basically an overwound, overhot P.A.F., and it's a bit too bluesy for this axe. Round and glassy. It needs something with a ceramic magnet that's more "metal". Neck pickup is obviously a Hot Rails clone, and it is reeeaaallly gooey...very little treble and tons of sustain. Kind of works strangely with the center pickup.