Jackson KVX10 King V

i dunno when it was made but this thing rocks! it was made in japan. this guitar has 24 sleek frets for fast soloing of course! it has a maple bolt on neck with rosewood fingerboard and an alder body. it has two simple easy to use volume and nob control with a 3 way selector switch.the stock duncan pickups are pretty good but not that crunchy. for metal the bridge pup is pretty mediocre. i got mine for 520 canadian dollars and its in amber sunburst finish and its beautiful. it also has a licencsed floyd rose tremelo and tune o matic bridge. the tremelo is fun and perfenct to use. i got mine with a jackson gig bag a lifetime warranty and a pack of picks so not bad at all considering the price!

i mostly play thrash and heavy metal so this is a rock god. it suits my style perfectly. i use it through a line 6 spider 2 with a line 6 floor pod and i couldnt ask for more effects! it has everything. it owns my strat and my epi explorer. it has a the thickest crunchiest sound ever . but you gotta change the pups first to emgs or dimarzios to get the best out of it. i dont dislike anything but the fact that the strap locks are wierdly positioned so you cant sit. but whod wanna sit playing a v?

it was perfectly set up from the factory. it has amazing sustain near the bridge with the right pups and chording is dang easy. i had to raise the pickupos to my pleasure but thatr depends on you.the tone control was bit lose but i tightenend it up right away so no prob. otherwise the finish is flawless.

this baby will defintely stand live playin. i did 4 gigs with and didnt need a backup. plus it looks awesome too!the strap buttons wont cme off even if you tried banging a hammer on them. otherwise a verry dependible guitar

never dealt with them but considering the lifetime warranty i give them a ten!

i have been playing over 17 years scince i was 12 and have 23 guitars of every famous brand. this stansds out first in my heavy metal section.i own les pauls explorrers strats teles bc riches prs's ibanez's and some more brands. if this were lost or stolen i would find the stealin' faggot and stab him with the fins of the guitar. i compared it to all my other guitars(in metal) and no bc rich dean esp could match it!
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brand new 2007 model. made in japan
24 jumbo frets. solid black finish. 2 duncan designed passive humbuckers, 1 tone, 1 volume, 3-way selector. basswood body. licensed floyd rose bridge. jackson tuners.

i play metal, so it is perfect.
i use it through a BOSS metal zone pedal to a Peavey Bandit 112 solid state amp.
the guitar is not noisy at all, but the duncan designed pups are really weak and muddy when you use distortion. the neck pup is ok though...
this guitar definitely needs a pickup change. I just changed my bridge pickup for a DiMarzio X2N. and man i tell you... this demon is all ready for some serious metal playing now.

the action is perfect, intonation perfect.
the pickups were adjusted to the bottom, so i re-adjusted them making them higher, closer to the strings.
the controls came kindda loose, but it was very easy to just tighten them up.

this guitar will surely stand any kind of gigs... but you need to watch for the point ends... the chrome hardware looks ok,.. but i think it wont last long,, the quality is not of top quality.
oh... gotta mention one thing.. this guitar DOES feel neck heavy. the strap bottons were placed kindda in a bad position, making it leaning toward the headstock. but you just need to get used to it, and re adjust your strap thats all.

japanes import... i guess theres no warranty at all.
but who needs it anyway, the guitar is perfect.

I've been playing since 1998. I have a Jackson Kelly Std. and a Epiphone les paul. i wished it'd came with the hardshell case... or at least a decent gig bag... but it came with nothing. just in the paper made jackson box. I had to get the jackson multi molded case, cost me $120, but it gets 100% protected. I don't have to worry about it now. If it'd get lost, i'd definitely get another one.

Good range of finishes, Great Modern V shape, Floyd rose works really well, Jumbo freats, rosewood 24 fret fretboard, 2 Duncan Designed Humbuckers.

Great for Metal/Rock, the neck pickup also gives a really nice full clean sound. virtually no hum

Action very low, easy to shred on, pickups adjusted into good position, the volume and tone controls do become loose..but..u just tighten them again.

This guitar is great on stage, gives great stage presence and feels solid, my freind who doesnt even play guitar, held it.. and said.. "wow this thing is solid as rock"

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I've been playing 5 years and have a few other guitars, and i will be sticking with jackson. If it were lost or stolen, i would get the same series but a superstrat shape, as this would be easier to sit down and practice with. i compared it to several ibanezs and fender strats, i prefer this alot

Great guitar for the money!

It has a bolton maple neck, rosewood fretboard, 24 frets, and an alder body (like a $1200 fender). I bought it in July of 2006,but mines an old one with a string thru body bridge. I'm glad I found it 'cuz I didn't want a tremolo. The new ones have tremolos. It's a V body shape, duh. The tuners are Jackson. It has a volume control, tone control, and 3-way pickup selector, no bull. The tone control works great, I can definitely hear a difference when turning the knob. The volume control is a different story. It goes from loud to nothing, instantly. The pickup selector works, but there's not much difference in the sounds, that's the fault of the pickups, though. Two Duncan designed humbuckers. The bridge is modeled after the distortion and the neck is modeled after the Jazz. They're both passive.

It sounds pretty good. The Duncan designed pickups don't come close to real Duncans, but if you need a cheap guitar to mess around with, this will do. It's a lot of fun. I'm in the process of buying real Duncans to replace the pickups. I'm sure this guitar is going to scream when I get them in. I wouldn't doubt it if it wil be the best guitar I've ever played.

It was set up nice when I got it, but be careful when you change the strings. The bridge can easily become messed up. The pickups were kind of low though. Most foreign made guitars aren't set up too well. Your local guitar shop could make your guitar play gloriously for about $40.

It's pretty tough, but like I said I'm changing the pickups. I'll probably buy some better tuning heads, too. This guitar will be awesome after that.

I've never had a problem with it. I've owned it for a year now.

I'm 34 and I've been playing since I was 13. I used to play sick so I could stay home and play my brother's guitar. I just got serious a few years ago, but my brother's always been serious. He's had a lot of nice guitars and I've played them all. I like the action on this one better than any of them. I've always wanted a V. I have no problem spending money to buy better accessories. When I'm done this guitar is gonna be so bad!

A black V, with chrome hardware and the typical Jackson sharktooth inlays. As far as I know this guitar is made in Japan, in 2006. It has a basswood body with a bolt-on maple neck. 24 frets. The body is of basswood (yep, the new X-series got basswood bodies). Jackson Licensed Floyd Rose and two Duncan Designed humbuckers. 1 volume, 1 tone and a 3-way switch. No useless extra, wich is good for me.

I give it a 7 because of the basswood, but would definately give it a 10 if it had an alder body.

This is a great guitar for metal, wich is what I play most. I play it through a Zoom606 FX pedal and a 35 Watts Hartke bass amp at home, and a Digitech Grunge and Marshall JCM900 at band practices. Especially the second setup sounds great.
I really like the sound of the pickups. The bridge pickup (Made after the Duncan SH-6 Distortion) is great for metal riffs. It souns agressive, but clear. The neck pickup (made after the Duncan '59) sounds very warm, and sounds perfect for slow solo's with a lot of feeling, but for faster soloing it lacks output.. The neck pickup sounds good clean too.
The only downside I think, is the guitar doesn't have very much sustain. I think this is caused by the combination of a small body (it's a V), bolt-on neck and Floyd Rose type bridge.
Although I really like the stock pick-ups, I'm going to put active EMG's in it, and try how that'll sound.

I give an 8 for the sound. I have never heard better stock pick-ups, but it would be nicer if it had a bit more sustain.

Haven't found any flaws yet, and the setup was olmost perfect. Just had to adjust the springs of the floyd bridge a tiny bit. The rest was just perfect.
The Floyd Rose Licesed bridge stays in tune VERY well. I have used it quite a lot in the beginning and never had problems, except that the whammy bar comes a bit loose sometimes. Now I rarely use it, but if I will be good enough at solo's and would start to use it more often, I think I'll replace it by a Schaller or something.

I give it a 9

I play this guitar live without a backup, because it's my only guitar since I sold my old B.C. Rich. If i could, I would definately take a backup with me, but not because of the guitar itself. Only because it would take too much time if I break a string. Haven't had that problem yet (knock on wood ;) )

A 10!

Never dealt with them.

I really love this guitar! I wish it was a neckthrough, but I can't expect that for such a price. I would recommend this guitar to anyone who plays metal and likes V's.

The only thing I really don't like about this guitar is the basswood body. But I think it ain't that bad, because even the high quality Ibanez guitars got basswood bodies.

I give this guitar an 8

christ this guitar is a beaty for sound. clean and distorted, it kicks the balls outa most other guitars.

jackson again not letting anyone down!

beautiful shiny black body. mahogany fretboard and chrome hardware. its a fantastic guitar. light and durable. easy to play.

this guitar will last till im dead and gone which might be a while lol.

its fantastic, very durable and it wont let you down.

if you drop it it will bounce back up abd slap you in the face.

ten outa ten.

it makes me proud to be an axeman

2002 Japan
24 frets
Solid top, Black finish
1 volume 1 tone, 3 way selector
H H two seymour duncan designed

The pickups are not too strong, theey are not bad at all, but with a change the guitar could win a lot in harmonics and output.
I also changed the knobs, because the one's it have are bad.

Some minor defects, but overall its good.
Made in Japan not Korea or Indonesia. But it isn't a USA made

The strap buttons are in the wrong plac. I changed one of them in order to equilibrate the guitar.

Good metal axe, i have had other LTDs , Gibson les paul, Ibanez..and for metal this is the best one, best tone and best image!!!

It has silly little Duncan Design Pickups (yuck), which they seem to have some obsession with, when really they suck. 24 Frets (good for a V guitar from Jackson, quite rare), chrome hardware, 25.5" scale length, no trem (yey) and bolt on neck with string thru body.

Its an ok sound out of the box, but because of the low low price you should have money left over for some nice pickups, which makes life a lot easier. Out of the box, pretty crap.

This is the good bit, because of the tunamatic bridge the action can be brought right down, and because Jackson are so good at necks, this guitars plays beautifully.

Jackson are rock solid and you cant break them if you try (don't try).

no idea

Been playing ages, also have a soloist and KE3, and i prefer this to the KE3, lovey guitar, purely because of the lack of trem. Get it in black or don't get it. Treat it right and it'll treat you right.

24 Jumbo Frets
Volume and tone controls
Duncan Design
Passive Pickups
Alder Body
Bolt-On Maple Neck
String-thru body (by far my favorite, avoid Floyd Rose)

Would have liked it to include a whamy bar cause i hate my dunlop cry baby
Also would have liked a volume control for neck and bridge pickups

Obviously it looks to be an all out metal guitar, which it is (except for the pickups, ill get to that in a second) The guitar is great for rock of any sort and with SH-2 neck pickups, it can be fairly jazzy too. I only play thrash and death metal, it's what i've always played. I play through a Marshall MG100X and it works great. This guitar has crappy stock pickups. Switch to EMG-81 and EMG-85 pickups, thats the same combo of pickups Zakk Wylde, Kerry King of Slayer and Kirk Hammet of Metallica (before they started to suck) use. If your not gonna switch to EMG pickups (which you should anyway) then at least slap some different Duncans on like SH-2 Jazz Neck and SH-4 TB Bridge. The guitar is good with the feedback restraint and clearity but it could be much better, which is where the EMGs come in. You can get a lot of variety with SH-2 and SH-4 pickups and with EMGs your not gonna get a whole lot of variety but METAL is the only sound i want and theres no better pickup for it. I give it a 8 with stock pickups, a 9 with better Duncans and a 10 with EMGs

Action was set a bit high for me but nothing really to complain about. The finish was great, i have a B.C. Rich Beast and the thing looks ridiculously awesome but it chips like crazy. The hardware was just what i expected.

I play once a month at Battle of the Bands (local band shows) the guitar holds up great. It doesn't chip or scratch easily like my Beast, I always bring a back though just incase. That jack nut seems to come loose but tighten it with a wrench and it will stay.

I've been playing for 9 years and out of all the guitars I've ever owned or played, this is diffently my favorite. I'm am more than happy with this guitar, if it were stolen, well, i wouldn't let it get stolen, but if it some how did i would for sure get a new one. The first time I bought a guitar i was choosing between my Beast and a Gibson Explorer, the Beast won cause it's cheaper and looked cooler, the next time around it was between the Explorer and the Jackson, the Explorer won cause i already new a lot about it and James Heittfield plays it sooo... then i finially got a Jackson and i loved it, i wish i had gotten it in the first place, it complements EMG pickups better than any other guitar i can think of. I still wish it came with a whamy bar though :-( If you have any questions, i'd be more than happy to answer them, just email me at JacksonVsoloist@coolkiwi.com

BODY Alder with Flame Maple Veneer on Transparent Colors
NECK Bolt-On Rock Maple
NO. OF FRETS 24 Jumbo Frets
BRIDGE PICKUP Duncan Designed? HB-103B Humbucker (copy of Seymour Duncan distortion)
NECK PICKUP Duncan Designed? HB-102N Humbucker (copy of Seymour Duncan jazz)
CONTROLS Master Volume, Master Tone
BRIDGE Adjustable Bridge with Strings-Through-Body

I would have given this a better score for features, but it doesn't come with a hardcase, unless you want to pay #200 extra for one, and i would have liked to have a volume control for each pickup. Also, there is no neck binding which would have made the guitar look a lot better.

I play a lot of heavy metal such as megadeth, iron maiden and judas priest and this guitar suits my style pretty good, however i reaplced the bridge pickup for a seymour duncan JB and it sounds a lot better. I gives a nice bright sound which i like and i'm using it with a Vox AD30VT and i can get a really good distorted and clean sound out of it. The only thing i didn't like much was the stock bridge pickup, it wasn't a major dislike, but i replaced the pickup anyway.

The action was really good when i got the guitar, but it could go lower so i adjusted the bridge. There were no flaws in the finish or neck.
The was one major problem though, when i bent the thin E sting it went out of tune, not being much of a guitar expert, i don't know what caused this so i just changed the strings and the problem disappered.

Beause this was my first pointy guitar, i smashed it about quite a lot when i was walking around beacuse i wasn't used to the size, and the finish didn't even dent, i managed to put a small 1mm chip in the paintwork when i hit the lower fin on the metal front of my amp. The strap pins are bigger than normal and look like they were going to last, but i bought some schaller strap locks just in case beacuse i don't want to risk damaging this guitar in a concert. The harware seems pretty solid and the controls havn't came loose and i've had the guitar for about 4 months.

never had to deal with them.

I have been playing for about 2 years and the only other gear i've got is my Vox amp.
If this guitar was stolen, i would hunt down the person who took it and stab them with the pointy fins of the guitar and probably buy the same guitar again, or if i suddenly had loads of cash, i would buy the KV2 or KV2T.
This guitar has everything i need: fast thin neck, jumbo frets, no floyd rose and it is amazing value for money.