The Electrifying Story of Jackson Guitar

Jackson Guitar

In the 80’s and the first part of the 90’s, Jackson guitars were very popular with the Heavy Metal and Thrash genres of music.

Grover Jackson was the owner and initial founder of Jackson Guitars. Grover was a partner of Wayne Charvel from Charvel Guitar Repair. The most famous guitar made by the Jackson Guitar Company is the Rhoads V model which was designed by the rock guitarist Randy Rhoads. The success of the Rhoads model drove Grover to create his own company, the Jackson Guitar Company.

the Jackson headstock is very similar to the Gibson Explorer’s headstock originally designed by the late Randy Rhoads.

With slim and stylish modern designs, hard rock and metal guitarists adored the Jacksons out of this world and innovative look. Artists such as Phil Collen and Rick Savage (Def Leppard), Dave Mustaine (Megadeth), Vinnie Vincent (Kiss), Randy Rhoads (Ozzy Osbourne, Quiet Riot) and Robbin Crosby (Ratt) are some of the more famous Jackson guitar wielders.

Fender acquired the Charvel and Jackson companies in 2002 and the guitar making operation moved to Corona, USA where Fender has its factory. Many of the loyal Jackson guitar players jumped ship and went on to endorse other guitar manufacturers.

The Jackson guitar is still very popular to this day, especially in the Heavy Metal genre.

The Dinky Guitar by Jackson – Great Quality, Great Price

With fifteen modifications, the most popular Jackson guitar on the market today is the Dinky Electric Guitar.

A Dinky Guitar is a reasonably priced guitar which doesn’t sacrifice quality. There are a number of series by Jackson which has Dinky guitars.

A Dinky is made as a Superstrat and it is a double cutaway guitar. It has a two humbucker pickup configuration, with some models having a single coil pickup or just a one bridge humbucker pickup, double locking floyd rose tremolo, shark tooth inlays and 24 jumbo frets. A few Dinkys have hardtail, or String-Thru bridges

In the Pro series, there are five Jackson Dinky guitars models: the DK2L, DK2M, DK2S, DK2T and DK2FF. The Jackson MG series has three Dinky models – the DKMGT and the DXMG. The JS Series has four models – JS1, JS20, JS30DK and JS30DKT Hardtail.

Hard rockers or heavy metal bands can be usually found playing a Dinky. But other guitar players in other niches can play Dinky’s with success.

A Dinky Guitar is a reasonably priced guitar and doesn’t sacrifice quality. If you are just starting out or you are on a tight budget, you should try the Dinky guitars.

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