Jackson DK2 Pro Series

2004 or 2005 model.
bought brand new from guitar center.
24 fret, floyd rose, black, duncan designed h-s-s pickups.

i would have given it a 10 if it had flame maple top, bound body, neck through and real duncans.

Sounds really good for metal.
i might be replacing the stock pickups with real duncans.
right now i am running it through a peavey supreme 100(soon to be replaced by a 5150 or a marshall vs100r) and a celestion loaded redbear 4x12.
clean tone on the guitar is really nice, not as warm as i would like it to be, but it works.
the jackson floyd rose is amazing. very smooth and responsive.
way better than the crap on my ltd's.
the alder body is a plus. i was tired of the mushy sounding basswood ltd and ibanez's i had been playing in the past.
the neck is amazing. it feels like it was made for my hand, and the scalloped lower horn makes reaching the 24th fret really easy.

factory set-up is beautiful. only changes i made were d'addario strings and a bit of spring setting up to accomodate a lower tuning.
paid 400 for it because it had a barely visible knick in the paint.(price tag said 479.00, so im not complaining). other than that, it is perfect.

very solid, durable guitar. hopefully it will put up with my abuse.
i wouldnt ever gig without a backup, which is what my ltd will be.

neverdealt with em. got a buddy who used to work for jackson, so he can help me with whatever i need.

I have been playing guitar for 3 years and played bass for 3 years prior to that. i have owned tons of gear and this guitar is most definately my favorite guitar so far. i will definately buy a second one for alternate tunings.
if it were stolen i would find the person who stole it and ask them to trade me for my ltd.
the neck has to be my favorite feature, it fits my hand perfectly.
i tried alot of ibanez(mushy sounding basswood paperweights) and other jacksons before i found this specific one. i initially set out to get a dxmg but found this guitar and couldnt put it down.
the only thing i wish it had was a flame maple top, translucent black finish, neck through, body binding and real duncans. but hey, for 400 bucks i have 0 complaints.

Year: Not sure, probably 2003 or 2004.
Frets: 24
COntrols: 1 volume and 1 tone
Pickups: S/S/H
Pickup Models: 2 SC101 and 1 HB102B, Duncan Designed
Body: Alder
Neck: Rock maple with rosewood fretboard
Bridge: Licensed Floyd Rose
Tuners: Jackson
Neck: Thin and fast. 25.5" scale length.

I play metal and this guitar is the best guitar for the job that I have played.

Flawless!!! The finish is transparent red and looks so sweet that I want to crap my pants! The neck is super fast and very comfortable for to play on for long periods of time.

This guitar will do the job on stage and won't let you down.

I have been playing for ten years now and I have tried many guitars that are deemed suitable for heavy metal. ESP and Ibanez don't hold a candle to Jackson in this department. The only other guitar I like this much is my Strat.

This is a greeat simple guitar. Not too much going on volume and tone only. For me simple is good like the floyd rose on it and really would not change a thing. The pick ups can offer a good variety of sound options as well

I usually play rock and this guitar is great. The souund is amazing through a marshall amp and gt-3 processor. I find it to be a rich sound that can be brightened or toned down to some degree. I love the neck single coil with an acoustic simulator or chorus and the bridge humbucker is good for anything with crunch or distortion.

this guitar came to me from the factory set up perfectly for me. everything was as i would like it and it was without flaws that i could find, the erie dess swirl paint job was impressive and i would have paid alot more for this guitar

This guitar is now my only electric it is used live and is very durable. I have no issues with this guitar and only take an acoustic with me besides this one

never used

I would buy this guitar again without hesitation, ths is my 3rd Jackson and i have nothing but good things to say about them

BODY Alder with Flame Maple Veneer
NECK Bolt-On Rock Maple
NECK DIMENSIONS 1st Fret: .735?, 12th Fret: .810?
TUNING MACHINES Die-Cast Tuners
FINGERBOARD Rosewood
NO. OF FRETS 24 Jumbo Frets
BRIDGE PICKUP 1 Duncan Designed HB-102B Humbucker
MIDDLE PICKUP 1 Duncan Designed SC-101 Single-Coil
NECK PICKUP 1 Duncan Designed SC-101 Single-Coil
CONTROLS Master Volume, Master Tone
BRIDGE JT580 LP Double Locking 2-Point Tremolo
PICKUP SWITCHING 5-Position Blade:
Position 1. Bridge Pickup
Position 2. Bridge and Middle Pickup
Position 3. Middle Pickup
Position 4. Middle and Neck Pickup
Position 5. Neck Pickup
HARDWARE Chrome
CASE Black velvet bound hard back case included free!!!

The guitar over all sounds fucking great, it's used to play country, soft rock, rock, metal, punk, pop, soul, blues... you name it..
I'am using a Marshall 130W Amp & Effects pedal.
is it noisy you ask?? like a bloody fraight train falling from a cliff!
sound is great for all types of music, with lots of variety.
on the whole the sound is great.. the only thing i don't like is a very small humm and idle static.

two words.... FUCKING PERFECT!

as well as having two other fine guitars... this is by far the best build and quality.. it will last a lifetime!

It came with a 12 moth warranty from the company i got it from.. never had to use the support though..

This Jackson has rosewood fingerboard and maple top.Also 5 Duncun Design pickups,volume and tone control,5-way selector,24 frets.

With the 5 Duncun Design picups you are given many options to play different styles with clear sound, a great variety in sounds of acoustic chords and melodies.When I used distortion the guitar was extremelly powerfull, very heavy sound in powerchords, clear sound in fast solos.I thought that the sound would go even more powerfull if I change the pickupts with Seymour Duncun Distortion and now that I did it I am sure! The guitar is absolutely perfect with Seymour Duncun,it can be rated with 10 in sound section!

Before I get this guitar home, there was a technician in the store who made several adjustments so I dont know if there were any problems from the factory.I got the guitar at home perfectly adjusted.The fingerboard is extremelly 'fast' makes the fingers 'drawing' on it.Very good response to fast scales up & downs or arpeggios.Very good feeling and control,absolutely one of the best.The Floyd Rose is very good, I used it hard and the tunning stayed just the same! The wood and the painting is also very good.I reduced the rating of this sector because of the volume control,it is placed very close to the pickups,so it touches the fingers of the right hand when you play a fast solo on the 12th or 13th fret.It was kind of annoying.I hope I will get used to it cause I had no such problem with ibanez or yamaha I played previously.I prefer the volume and tone controls like in Les Paul, away from the space the right hand moves.

Of course the guitar can stand perfectly in a live performance.The sound of course gets better when you play loud and the guitar never makes noices etc. The finish is very very good,excellent quality I thing it is gonna last for very long time.It has also very imrressive look!I think a player can count on this Jackson for a live performance!

I never had to contact the company.....I hope i won't!

I been playing heavy metal for 8 years, I have used Yamaha RGX,Ibanez RG,Les Paul and Super Strat, i meen i have seen great variety in sounds and guitar styles.This Jackson is optimal for heavy and sharp riffs and solos.Clear and powerfull sound,excellent finish and look,good tremolo and lock system.I am definatelly not sorry for buying this babe.Really good with its own personality and professional use.

2002 Alder Dinky Strat style body, trans blue finish on a flamed maple top, H/S/S pickup configuration, Floyd copy, 24 jumbo frets on a rosewood board, maple neck, neck and headstock binding and vol-tone controls with a 5-way switch and all hardware is chrome. Came with tools for trem and truss rod. I ordered some extras for it that will be explained below.

H/S/S pickup configuration is probably the most versitile. I bought a Seymour Duncan Distortion bucker for the bridge and 2 DiMarzio Virtual Vintage Blues singlecoils for the neck and mid positions. After re-wiring and setting up, it was time to plug in. No noise, killer output and just plain sounds fucking incredable! Can't beat it. I play through a Marshall DSL 100w head, 1960A 4X12 cab and I use a BOSS MT-2, Delay, Flanger, Chorus and Dunlop Wah. THE WAH SOUNDS GREAT ON THE SECOND SWITCH POSITION, JUST LIKE KIRK HAMMETT IN A WAY. I give it a 10 after I moded it with new pickups.

Factory set up. Redone by me. Finish is damn good and fit was pretty good, but the nut is a little off. I pulled the neck to one side and fixed that. Can't complain for $299

It will last forever!

I bought this to travel with. I wanted the shred of a high output humbucker with the ringy sound of a Strat in one package with the whammy bar. I got alot more than I bargained for. I am a Jackson convert. I have left my Strat and my Paul sit for a while. I also have a BC Rich neckthrough Warlock Custom and it gets the second most attention, but this DK2 is taking top of the list. I love it. If you are reading this review, you will love it too. I have been playing for 23 years. My Warlock was my second guitar after my first guitar, which was a cheap Strat copy crapped out on me. I have owned several guitars, but nothing in the H/S/S configuration. This is one great guitar. PERIOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

made in japan 2000 model I was told . 24 frets . lamenated top vol. tone 5-way selrcter s/s/h duncan design pickups passive I think poplar transparent amber strat floyd rose "jackson tuners" wide and thin Bought without case

I play everything from country {REQUIRED IN SOME JOINTS} to 80s metal and all the zep were capable of singing. This guitar is very versatle, and the main reason I buy these things.Their so much more than a strat, in quality and tone.I mean, working on a rear routed body verses everything mounted to a flimsy pickguard? I know im fender bashing, but so what? We all realize if it were not for fender the idea of these things would not exist. I play it through a jcm 800 half stack and a jcm 900 half stack at the same time,no color except during solos, which i choose between a commpressor,{country} bluesbreaker, DS-1, or mt zone. Good sound, if it lacks anything on some song, Ill make up for it at the amps or something. I dont like the way the fine tuners were hard to turn. I deburred them at the contact point, dropped oil at every moving part and that seemed to do the trick.

The guitar was in tune when I got it, but basically no set up. This is usally the case, so I was prepared to throw my "treatment" at it. No flaws exccept{good band} for the tuner thing. Everything was tight.If you do everything you can and still have slight tuning problems, especially with it floating, pull the springs, take out floyd, and unscrew {another good band} the posts,wrap 1 or 2 turns of teflon tape {yes, pipe thread stuff} and proceed to screw them....back in. This doesent seem like much, so next time youve got the asembly off, check the play in the posts.

YES the thing will withstand live playing only if you maintain it which is required by all guitars,cars,flowers etc.... I would have a back up for obvious reasons. The finish is deep, with no dimples.Mine doesent have that yellowish-orange look that Ive seen in other trans-amber versions, its almost a "natural" hue. You can depend on it just as much as any fender prouduct even USA models.

never dealt with them. Ive read their a pain in the ass.

Ive been playing/performing for 18 years. I own a hamer, gibson paul,right now. Ive owned MANY guitars through the years, some im glad to be rid of, some I cry over. I would buy it again, and ask for the allan wrenches. Not that i dont have the proper tools, but its the idea. I guess you have to buy the case to get that stuff.{I didnt buy a case.}I really like the neck. Its wide and thin and flat.This may sound strange, its closer to my paul than the hamer,but not exactly so.Its thinner than the gibson, but thicker than the hamer.

It was made in Japan. My first mistake was ordering from Musician's Friend. I think the name "Musicians FIEND" better fits. FIEND for those of you who don't know means enemy. Anyway I'll tell you why I feel this way in a different category.

It was made 1999. It was a flame top amber burst DK-2 Pro Series.
IT was set up with a Seymour duncan SSH configuration. Came with a bad ass guitar case. Also features neck binding and the headstock, 24 jumbo frets, pearl shark inlays of course(I like to pretend they are SATAN's teeth nipping at my fingers. LOL). Apparently God cursed this guitar because I noticed a few obvious thing WRONG with this guitar as soon as I took it out of the case. I was severly pissed. Read on below. The specs are covered as far as I feel to elaborate

The sound is absolutely mind shattering. Crystal clear, and can make my murdered family's skeletons dance like a cartoon called Disney's Animaniacs. HOWEVER I was used to my EMG 81's so I had to fine tune my Boss GT-5 to this since the output and shit are different in ways.
No big deal unless you switch guitars often. I just make custom configs. no biggie.
Seriously you can get alot of different tones out of this guitar. I'll say this, it sounded bad ass for only $500

It's been a while since I played on a flat radius guitar, but that's why I got it because on all my other guitars have a very small radius and you fret out like hell(strings fly off the fingerboard when bending). 9.5" (fender strats) are good for chording and practicing holding your meat since it's a hotdog shape. 12"-14" radiuses(gibson/epiphone/tele's)are a happy medium. You can get your chording, and then some bending. The Jackson is 15"-16". which gives you alot of room to bend those strings over like bitches you get in the back alley.

Ok, This is where I'm going to bitch, but I feel entitled to share my experience with this guitar purchase. Ok, you get the guitar in the mail and it's SEALED from the factory and came with a 45 satisfaction/defect free policy from Musician's Friend aka Musicians "Ass End" or Musicians "FIEND". Ok, I get the guitar out the case and my eyes went into that concentrated mode you get when watching porno's. It was magestic. I touched it and though I was on an acid trip. It was a superb finish and isn't a crappy paintjob that easily scratches like most guitars I've every owned. Epiphone junk(yes I experimented and HATED the damn Tune-0-maturbation..err matic.)
and yes my fender's mex strats would get scuffed if you sneezed and a booger dried that was microscopic.. sure enough it'd scuff. Anyways I noticed the 5 way switch was loose. And I was like what the hell? So I figured, old Johnny Kalwawisski-sushifinakki from the Japan Assembly wanted to go home after a 23 hour day so he could go to bed to get up to go to work. (I trust Japan to build quality stuff.. most of the time) Just teasing about the name shit. The screw turned out to be stripped and the switch hole was screwed up. It was like they took a screw driver and hammered it in. I was a little pissed. Next I noticed the binding up at the locking nut was split and misformed. If anyone ran their finger down it'd slit your finger on a sharp end.. So I was like WHAT THE HELL!!!!! So I took a exacto knife and carved it off and fixed the damn thing. Geez I buy a new guitar to fix. Anyway's I was extremely pissed when I saw that the neck pocket was cut on a slant and they put a heel in to counter the effect.. So when you look at the last fret where it overlaps the body the whole damn neck is cockeyed, along with a string of hair and 2 balls! I was really pissed. That explained the misalignments. Everything was funky, but got to check the tone out. I CONTACTED MUSICIAN'S CHICKENPEN and they said to take it to a repair shop. A GODDAMN NEW GUITAR I GOT AND IN THE FIRST HOUR WAS TOLD TO CONTACT JACKSON. FU MUS F. It's coming back.

well didnt bother contacting.. I realize stuff is overlooked and gets out to customers but come on, dont send us B-stock SHIT!

It would be good if they didn't let imperfections get out to the customer!