I tried to ignore this guitar at yesterday's Swee Lee (Katong) sale but maybe the orange (Jackson calls it October Pearl) has some voodoo to it so I brought (bought, more like it) it home. It's a DK2T discontinued in 1999, the fact that it's still in good condition & available in the store gave rise to many implications but they were not important. What's important is that it's a good guitar & I got it for a good price.
- Neck: Jazz
- Bridge: JB
The generous rear bevel means it's a joy to play both sitting down & strapped on; it just molds itself to the body. The post neck-plate bevel on the other hand, did very little to promote upper fret reaches but it's not as repulsive as the Les Paul's bulk at the same spot.
Since I was in the neighbourhood, it's off to BEEZ's to have the Orange Drop cap installed...
... as well as the push-pull coil split switch.
When I reached home, I had a set of SITs .009 set of pure nickel strings in there to quell the inherent brightness- an alder body coupled with a Duncan JB in the bridge manifested lots of rich top end when I heard it in action at BEEZ's. Thusfar, it's all thumbs up with the DK2T especially after I revised the action to my playing comfort. Maybe one of the reasons why it remained unappealing while it was still resident in the store might be down to its colour; to many of us, it's too 'loud' a finish.
18 comments:
hmmm...is the upper fret access comparable to a strat? :P
thereabouts...
a bit striking color for a guitar, but still attractive :D
80s shred/metal guitar! when you need those bright neon coloured guitars to stand out.
glam metal comeback??
u should pair it with DR neon strings :)
Nice.
Love the oranges (body, capacitor).
52nd guitar/bass?
glam metal? he he... i only know metal :-)
i have another bright-coloured guitar coming but not any time soon.
ebony fret like many other jacksons?? It looks like one.
rosewood, bro... :-)
I'm surprised something that metal-looking has a hard tail, it looks made for screaming harmonic dive-bombs.
Jackson = heavy metal is conventional thinking. this guitar will prove its worth when it comes to other music genres. ditto the bridge association.
How come sub has so many guitars?
i seriously don't know :-)
nice! any idea if sweelee still has stock?
no more bro... it's one of those forgotten guitars in stock :-)
ah... would you be thinking of letting this go anytime soon?
no... i'm not a Jackson fan but this one i definitely like :-)
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