Product: Jackson Custom Demon
Price Paid: US $2500
Submitted
04/18/2006
at
02:39pm
by
Anonymous
Features
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10
2005 USA Custom Shop. 24 Frets. Mohagony Body, Flamed Maple Top. 2 Humbuckers - Seymour Duncan Custom 5 in Bridge and 59 in the Neck position. 5 Way Switch with Coil Splitter. Neck is Bolt-On 3 Piece Maple with a Highly Flamed Maple fingerboard. It is basically a Super Strat style body type with elongated horns. Horns are bevelled for better fret access. Original Floyd Rose Trem. All gold hardware. Medium Jumbo frets. The neck is a C Shaped "meaty" neck a little larger than a Fender Strat (specified by me - I can't stand thin necks). This neck is absolutely perfect for my hands. Paint is so good the thing looks like its on fire.
Sound
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10
This guitar is perfect for my style - instrumental shred. It is extremely articulate and punchy. Very focused with the most sustain of any guitar I have ever had. The neck pickup has insane sustain and to my suprise gets great harmonics. I'm sure a H-S-H pick up configuration would have been more versitile but I got it for what I play. I just love the sound of this thing.
Action, Fit, & Finish
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10
I live in a cold climate and the guitar was affected by that as the set up was non-existent. The strings were bottoming out. I set up any guitar I get to my playing specs so it was no big deal - I would have set it up anyway so I am not holding that against it. Hardware, paint, tolerances - all top notch and very impressive. Now that I have it set up it is the most killer playing guitar I have ever put my hands on and I have tried most every well known high end axe out there.
Reliability/Durability
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10
The minute you touch this guitar you can feel the quality. Just amazing. Very solidly built. You could use it without a back up but as a rule I would always have a back up.
Customer Support
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Overall Rating
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10
I have been playing 30 years. Once in a while you run into one of those magical guitars that comes along maybe a couple times in your life and I got lucky on this one. I love the sound and the neck is the best neck I have every played - not to mention it is a stunning guitar to look at. It is extremely articulate and has tremendous sustain - more than the neck throughs I own. I chose Jackson because they make the finest shred guitars available period. They do many things when they build their guitars that sets them apart - from the way they buff out the paint to the hardware. I have played Suhr, Anderson, Tyler, Zion, Warrior, Baker and most of the axes out there. I would take this guitar over the finest any of them had to offer.
