Jackson DK2 Dinky

Specifications can be looked up on www.jacksonguitars.com

There are the common features, nothing special.

You get used to the floyd rose, stop complaining. I enjoy working with it.

The neck is like perfect for me.

This guitar is actually very versatile. I personally think its more personal preference, than certain qualities taht make a gutiar more suitable for a certain style of music. I like the singles for jazz actually. Bright and clear.

I play a bunch of different styles. The way i think of it. Music is music, its just how you apply it to form different styles. Thats a great point of view, and thats how i think of it.

Played acoustically, i love this guitar. Its relatively loud and bright, surprisingly.

This guitar is almost perfect for me. Neck Thru, and stacked singles, this guitar would be perfect.

The mids on this guitar are very nice, it gets nice and pronounced when the mids are cranked. It gives the guitar a nice singing quality. Try this guitar on a marshall with the bass and mids cranked. The Alder has a pretty nice low end actually. Its a bitey low end. Its not smooth and all basswood like. Its a vintage full sounding wood. Cranks the mids people. Thank me later. Alder isnt as bright as people think it is, its definitely bright, but maple is brighter.

Chords are very sizzley, and powerful, very pronounced. Single notes in the high end are vocal. Harmonics are awesome. Lots of sounds you can get from this guitar.

The only thing i dont like about the guitar is that i would prefer a NEck Thru. The Bolt on is fine, but more sustain would be cool. And there is no need for that extra bite. But, the bolt on is definitely acceptable.

Perfect.

I got the eerie dess swirl. Gorgeous.

No complaints. Reliable, but dont be stupid. Use common sense.

never dealt with jackson

I compared this to my les paul, and my ibanez rg prestige. Its brighter, and more vocal, and more enjoyable to use. Not as beefy as the les paul but more beefy than the prestige.

I would like a neck thru, and stacked shredding single coils.

Made in japan
Alder body (flame maple veneer on transparent colours)
bolt on neck rock maple
double locking trem (2 point floating trem)
Controls: master vol & tone
24 jumbo frets
Fingerboard: rosewood
shark inlays
duncan designed pickups (seymour duncan)(1 HB 2SC)
and the very cool jackson headstock
The floating trem was the main reason I bought this guitar as I play Van halen, steve vai and joe satriani stuff, the semour duncan humbucker gives you a great meaty sound the neck single coil is pretty weak but i never use the neck pickup anyway.

It suits my style prefectly as i said play van halen stuff and its a shredding machine, I didn't go for an Ibanez as this is better for the money.
I use this with a marshall mg100dfx and a boss me-30 and is a great combination
The pickups don't hum at all unlike my crappy squire stratocaster
The humbucker gives a great meaty sound
Gives a great range of sounds
so far have been making animal noises using the locking trem such as a horse and a elephant!!
I pretty much like every thing about the sound except the locking trem takes away some of the sustain but if you are using distortion that don't matter.

I got the transparent blue finish on mine
The low action is good as it makes fast picking easy, but palm muting a bit more difficult
My guitar had things adjusted at a shop before it was sent to me so everything in tiptop condidtion

Although I have complete faith in this guitar I never play live without a back up (epiphone les paul) and the hardware seems like it will last
The strap are massive so the strap will never fall of
The finish will seem like it will last but too early to tell

haven't had to deal with

I have been playing for electric for two years (used to play classical for 4 years) I own a epiphone les paul standard good but damn to heavy and a squire strat and this is easily the best
If it was stolen I would definatly buy a new one or hunt the person who stole it. Randy rhoads had the first jackson every made and I am sure that one of the greatest guitarists would know a thing or two about a good guitar. Its a great buy. Buy it

My THIRD EVER guitar - and its a keeper, basically. Twenty-four jumbo frets (medium would've been better but its great nonetheless), a pretty fast flat bolt-on maple neck with rosewood fingerboard, solid Alder body, Hum-Sing-Sing combination Duncan Design pick-ups two SC-101 Singles and an HB-102 in the bridge - hence five-way selector switching, one volume, one tone, a Jackson Floyd Rose bridge for all you locking-tremolo freaks who love the whammy-bar choreography, well-made Jackson tuners similar to Grover, and to top this section off, the body and neck are well-balanced when you play standing with it.

My style of music was all over the place at first, but now its Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, and Eric Johnson-style riffs/songs and this guitar can definitly keep up with my ever-changing style - and it has done for the last two years I've had it for. The effects I've used with this guitar are a Boss DS-1, a Boss MD-2, a Boss CH-1, a Boss DD-6, a Dunlop Crybaby, a Boss ME-50 multi effects pedal, and an Alesis Midiverb 4. The AMPS I have tried this with are a Marshall MG10CD (first amp), a Marshall AVT50, a Marshall JCM2000 Half-Stack and the one I currently own - the Crate GT1200H Half-Stack. It sounds great in all of those, with the exception of possibly the only drawback to name: Noise. There's too much noise - and also with the dynamic drop of output when I switch from bridge to middle to neck pick-up. I recently had a 500k volume pot put in so that brought out the depth of the pick-ups at least, but the noise still remains. It DOES sound good though, and I'm going to replace the bridge pick-up with a DiMarzio Tone Zone soon - but I'm gonna also hold onto the pick-up being replaced because I like it, and should a custom guitar project come up I shall use the HB-102 pick-up. The range of harmonics from frets four to twenty-four is wide, and the tone of it - pre-500k-pot - was alright to tolerate - too middy and bassy, not that much treble, but now that the 500k pot is in there its lifted everything a lot higher, it just screams, sings, whispers - anything! So obviously, the pot is recommended for optimum performance.

The action, when I tried it in the shop (EBGB Music, Durham, England) was too high for my liking, so I couldn't get a feel for it, but I like it as low as possible without the obvious buzz-fret and no-fret noises. The pick-ups were adjusted alright-ish, again I like them as close to the strings as possible without any magnetic contact even with the whammy bar all the way down. The bridge was routed perfectly with the exception of the trem post nearest to the whammy bar holder, as it is a bit wonky and so neither edges of the base plate were parallel with the routing sides so I may see to that in the near future.

This guitar sounds GREAT live and can't wait to get its sound sorted out and ready for recording with! The hardware WILL last because I say so...hah nah, if you think about it - Alder body, Maple neck, blocked Floyd Rose (can't pull up, I'll explain further on>>) - this thing's built like a TANK. The finish is lovely - a few dings and marks but its very playable and in good condition. The strap has never fallen off this guitar whilst standing so the buttons are sturdy and stable. If I gig with this I'll probably not need a back-up as far as the actual GUITAR goes, but if a string is snapped then I'll no doubt be bringing along a back-up, so yes I actually would need one.

Never dealt with Jackson in any way, shape or form.

I have been playing guitar for 4 years actually, but my skills have come a long way and can improvise pretty well for someone who hasn't been playing for that long. Other gear I own guitar-wise is an Ibanez JS100 Satriani Signature guitar - I'll review that someday. I could've asked for my Jackson to be checked up before asking to purchase it but hey - trial and error, right? If it were stolen I would definitly get this guitar again without thinking about it - OR if I can't find it in a hurry, I'll get a different Jackson guitar as I would like to become an endorsee of Jackson and/or this model in particular. I love everything about this guitar except the incomplete accessibility when fretting past the twenty-first fret - it could've been an all-access neck so I might umm....make it so =) (D.I.Y. - get what I'm saying? Heh) I couldn't compare this to any other guitar because everything about it is right where I want it to be. I chose this one pretty much off the cuff - wasn't really expecting to get this guitar...but lets just say 'God bless Mothers' haha nah I was just looking for a guitar with a locking tremolo and more than TWENTY-ONE frets, which really frustrated me because my music was constantly changing. I wish it had a trem-setter so that I could pull up on the whammy bar like Steve Vai and Joe Satriani - its not a COMPLETE must but it is essential for the things I would like to do with the soloing that would be involved.

In short, this guitar is a MUST for anybody with similar idiosyncrisies as me. Hope this helps you choosing.

Nice Guitar with SSH setup, 24 jumbo frets,Floyd Rose licence whammy and master Tone / Volume Potis. The Body is made of alder and it has a bolt on maple Neck with a rosewood fingerboard. Mine has flames inlays, which look very great with the complete black guitar. The two single coils are Duncan Designed SC-101 and the Humbucker is a Duncan Designed HB-102B. The 5way switch changes bewtwwen bridge PU / bridge & mid PU / mid PU / mid & neck PU / neck PU.

I play mostly AOR to Metal and the Humbucker has a quite soft but powerful output that fits for most distorted sounds. The singlecoils have a very clean output with much punch and attack but lower sustain. They produce a nearly Strat-like sound, which i think is very cool. But don't try to use them with distorted sounds, it won't fit.

The Factory set up is not as good as it could be, having the price of the guitar in mind. But it takes only half an hour to have the action closer to the fingerboard. At my guitar, i have the feeling that the neck isn't bolt on too precice, that could have been done better.

The guitar is solid and i have no doubt it won't abandon me on stage. Anyway, i won't dare to have no backup at all.

Haven't had a reason to deal with Jackson

I purchased the guitar about half a year ago and play it over a H&K Attax 50 and a Marshall bass & lead 100W Top with a homebrew 4*12" Box. I use the Marshall Jackhammer and an Ibanez Cyberdrive vor overdrive and Lead sounds, an Ibanez Compressor and the Marshall Supervibe as a chorous. The Guitar fits with every sound i can make out of my gear.

When i looked around to buy a guitar, i played lots ob Ibanez and BCRich Guitars around in local Music stores, but the Jackson was my favorite right from the first time i held it in my hands. I will buy this axe again and again and again, if someone dares to steal it. The only thing is, that it'd be find if it had the floyd Rose Speedloader system - but yiu can't have everything.

2004 made in Japan, 24 frets 1 volume 1 tone control S/S/H pickups
Duncan designed passive. Maple neck rosewood fretboard, Alder body
Black finish, Jackson Floyd Rose designed bridge, locking nut, jackson
tuners fast neck 25 1/2 scale

I play mostly classic rock, blues, metal, and a bit of everything else. I use a Zoom GFX5 pedal into a Marshall 100 watt tube preamp combo. Guitar itself is warm sounding with good balance.
Single coils are less powerful than Humbucker but good at sounding like a single coil should... (Strat like.) Humbucker is on the hot side but very warm. It's not a scorcher by any means but very good.
You can achive a wide variety of sounds from this P/U configuration.

The neck action was excellent I love the feel of the neck.
I needed to tweak with the bridge and P/U's to get what I wanted from them, but I expected to set it up to my liking anyway
The controls and wood are all in excellent condition.

Seems quite durable I've only had it 3 weeks now and it is very soild so far. Finish is flawless, strap buttons are large and reliable.
I never gig without a back up, but I have ton's of confidence in this Axe

Haven't dealt with them. The website seems to be missing a contact email address but I'm sure I could reach them if I needed to.

I have been playing 24 years and have Carvin, Ibanez,and Fender guitars as well. This Guitar is a great bang for the buck! My Carvin DC127 was my favorite and does have some higher quality advantages than the Jackson. But damn this Jackson is awesome. I find myself reaching for it first when I play and I have a hard time puting it down.

This Guitar comes with 2 single coil pickups on neck , mid, and a humbucker near the bridge. The guitar has a floating floyd rose bridge. the tuners are locking

Features are not as much as I would of expected of a mid to high priced guitar.

The sound of the Humbucker pickup near the bridge is awesome, Handles heavy distortion very well. However, the neck pickup is useless for soloing with and is only good for playing chords and riffs in clean tone because of single coils haveing low sustain.

This guitar does not suit soloing with.

The action in factory settings was horriable, I had to straighten the neck up myself and further tune the action of the guitar for a whole day until it felt right for me. But once the action is all set, the guitar seems to handle very easily. The finish of the guitar is awesome, shines out and is glossy. This guitar is a piece of eye candy to people.

I have had this guitar over 1 year and nothing has ever broke on it. This guitar is very rugged and durable common to all Jackson guitars.

I had an one year warrenty on this guitar. But because this guitar was so durable, I have neaver had to use this warrenty.

This guitar could of been great, because of its awesome bridge pickup, its wounderful looks, and its fantastic durability.

Its a shame that an absence of a humbucker near the neck let this awesome guitar down.

Brand new DK2L guitar in solid black. S/S/H pickup configuration with an EMG-81 dropped into the bridge position. Floyd Rose-esque tremolo of decent quality. Killer shark tail inlays. Other than that, this guitar isn't particularly flashy or amazingly special. It's a decent low-mid range guitar for most guitarists.

The sound for the stock pick-ups is great actually. Very clean, very crisp, very clear. Took the heavy distortions pretty well, didn't produce too much feedback and grossness. Personally, I just prefer a higher output which is why I got the EMG, but the stockers are not bad in their own right. They work well with general rock and metal. They have a semi-bright tone. Only one volume and tone, though, so not a lot of variety in terms of the sound from the guitar itself. It's decent, though.

The action is phenominal. This thing shreds with the best of them. It plays really well and is exceptionally light and comfortable. The whole setup is pretty clean and well adjusted. I can't really see much that might need to be changed from the factory setup at all.

Everything looks pretty stable, although I haven't really had the guitar for very long, so I couldn't really vouch for its long term reliability. The hardware is pretty solid and clean. It has a solid construction, doesn't look like it's going anywhere.

No sir. Never had to.

I've been a guitarist myself for just under 5 years. I've played many different instruments in that time and for a left-handed model at a reasonable price, this guitar definitely rocks. It's absolutely, 100% worth the money and more. Maybe just a little tweaking here and there, depending on your personal preference, but it's a damn fine setup stock. I love it.

2004 dk2. Black with chrome hardware. Bound maple neck with roswewood fretboard and 24 jumbo frets. Solid alder body, dinky style. Jackson trem. duncan designed H/S/S pups. 5 way selector switch, vol & tone. Sealed Jackson tuners. Nice fast neck. Came with tools for trem & truss rod adjustment. Made in Japan for Jackson. Gives it a 9 instead of 10 cause trem bar would have been better positioned a half inch further back on bridge.

I am and remain more a fan of double humbucking equipted guitars. But wanted a good HSS guitar for my collection. That said, it sounds very good for death/black/thrash metal, techno, and other extreme musics imo. The Duncan designed single coils have nice crunch as does the Duncan designed humbucker. Likes the pups sound better then most of the Seymur Duncan & Dimarzio pups. Though I'd prob slightly prefer EM Hz pups. Note sustain fade out could be slightly longer. Though sustain overall is better then some non trem guitars with set necks. Good useable voice in all 5 positions.

I did unbolt, glue in and rebolt the neck. Something I do to most bolt on guitars and basses. Improves sustain, harmonics and broadness of sound. Gives close to set neck sound chars.

Very well set up out of box. No defects nor loose parts. Did readjust bridge pup for better sound. Lowered action just a tiny bit to better suit me. Restrung it with GHS Boomers, 9's.

Well made like all Jacksons. Good size strap buttons. Wold not use it to gig without backup. Simply causeI mainlyuse HHup equipted guitars that are also nontrem.

Never dealt directly with Jackson.

Played since was young teen. So more then 20 yrs. Also play a BC Rich Warlock, Epiphone G400 SG, & Epiphone G1275 doubleneck.

Well.....I'm a beleiver again! After close to 10 years of playing non-floyd guitars I picked this little beauty up on ebay. It was new, however, not purchased from a delaer. It's a 2003 model in Eerie Dess finish, which I get more comments on than any other guityar I've ever owned. HSS passive pickup configuration which I simply hate (see below). Has a Jackson Floyd Rose copy, which appears to be made by Schaller. Has a Duncan designed humbuker, and two Duncan design single coils (middle and neck). 1 tone and 1 volume control. 24 frets, and shark tooth inlays. About everything a guitar player needs. The neck is thin wide, and extremely fast. The guitar is light in weight. I love the Dinky body size......just feels right on me.

I play in a cover band that covers hits from the 70's, 80's, 90's, and today. This guitar suites all styles extremely well.....although I do sometimes feel a little silly playing Lynard Skynard on a Jackon shredding machine. I sometimes bring my strat and switch to it on the 70's stuff......just a little better for that stuff. I'm using a myriad of effects. My preamp is a tech 21 TRI-AC, through different amps. Sometime I go straight into an amp.....sometimes not. Sometimes I deploy a butt-load of effects, sometimes not. Really just depends on my mood, and the gig. This guiat is great with exception to the pickups. I just don't know why a shredders guitar would have a single coil in the neck. I switch to the neck pickup to get that "end of the world" lead tone, and quite frankly with the stock neck pickup there's just not enough gain and balls. The middle single coil is fine. Helps thin out the sound in positions 2 and 4 on the 5 way switch. The bridge pickup has it's own cool mid-range thing going which sounds good with just a little edge on it. With that said, I'm a die-hard Dimarzio guy, so I just ordered a Tone Zone for the bridge, a Fast Track 1 for the middle and a pro rails for the neck. I'll then have my Guitar tech set up the bridge and middle so I can split the coils. Other than the cheesy picks I have no complaints about the sound of this guitar.

The good news: The finish and dressing of the frets was flawless. The bad news: The factory set up was horrendous. The truss needed adjusting, the intonation was off, The strings buzzed, and the floyd was floating at an incorrect angle. I had to spend about 2 hours setting it up when I got it. The worst part is that the neck creaks. There's an ever so slight movement of the neck because it doesn't sit perfectly in the neck pocket. As soon as my pickups come in I'm going to drop this thing off at my guitar tech to have him install the pickups, coil tap switches, and look at the neck pocket. I suspect there is a little extra paint in there causing the problem. Anyway a new guiatr should not have these problems. Nevertheless I still love this instrument and am willing to put the extra money into it to make it right......especially since I only paid $399.00 for it new, and the chepaest I could find it with the custom Eeerie Dess paint job on-line was $549.00.

Seems to be OK. The floyd is cheap and the fulcrum material is soft on these because they are made from soft cast material instead of hardened steel. With the amount that I yank on the Floyd I know this WILL cause tuning problems down the road. Eventually I'll install a REAL Floyd Rose in this thing.

In one word........it SUCKS. No phone number on the website, no email address, no support Forum....nothing. The website sucks, and I don't know how to get a hold of them to ask some questions. This is the worst support I have EVER seen. If Jackson goes down....it'll be because of their worthless support. You'd think a company that has been around as long as they have would understand that support is HALF of the product value in the eye of the consumer. You'd think Fender (who recently purchased Jackson) would know this as well.

Been playing about 20 years now. Owned it all pretty much at one time or another. It's a good axe. I have a Jackson DR-3 which is basically the same guitar with a reversed headstock and two humbuckers. The neck pocket on that guitar is nice and tight.....so I suspect the neck issue on this guitar is a fluke. I suppose the neck creak bothers me more than anything else. Hopefully it is fixable. I think the American made version of this guitar would address all of my issues (pickups, cheap version of Floyd, neck pocket) so I think in retrospect i would have spent the extra $800 and bought that instead. After I get done with the parts and labor I'll be up to that much money anyway. Oh well......Live and learn!!!

2003 DK2-Dinky Eerie Descent Swirl. Picked her up April 2003. It nearly jumped off the rack into my arms. From the minute I saw her, I knew she had to be mine. I've been playing for about 15 years, mostly hard rock. I've always played Ibanez (Joe Satriani, who else?). My wife wanted to learn, so we got 2 matching Ibenez guitars with Floyd Rose fakies for $200 apiece. BIG MISTAKE! Worst guitar I've ever owned. It felt like I washed my mouth out with Coast soap. Anyway, the wife lost interest fairly quickly and I got the go-ahead to purchase this baby. Loving life ever since.

Lots of hard rock, metal, classic rock, you name it. The guitar dishes out whatever sound you want. Minor complaint- it seems like to big of a gap on the 5-way selector from High Treble to the next lowest setting. Sometimes a little to bright, but the next position down is just a bit low. Not that big of a deal, though; I'm just really picky.

After having the guitar for about 6 months, I took it to the local dealer and got it re-stringed. After finishing that, the guy told me the pickups were too high, which threw the tuning out of wack from time to time (true). He fixed that, and now I have zero tuning problems and the action is even sweeter. I'm a bit dissapointed in the factory setup.

I've always played Ibanez but being a Randy Rhoads fan I've always loved Jackson. She's my first one, and we are off to a lifelong relationship. I see no issues with durabiliy.

I play through a Crate GLX65. I lost the beautiful chrome tremolo bar that came with it, and no one seems to know how to get/order another one. Any ideas?