Jackson Warrior XT

A spectacular body on this Jackson. Something that no one else would have. With the slim jackson neck, floyd rose tremelo, TWENTY FOUR 24 jumbo frets, this guitar cannot get any better.

The floyd rose comes not without it's costs. The tuning, like any floyd rose, isn't quick and easy like a hardtail. However, the name seems intimidating, it's actually quite easy. It is time consuming however *matching spring with string tension* when i had to change 10 gauge strings.(it took me 4 hours personally, since it was my first time handling a floyd) But looking at the right lessons, it was very easy, but I did spend that much time for a reason, to get the perfect tuning. If you're sticking to 9 gauge strings, it shouldn't take nearly as long.

The body of course, is B. U. T. Full. I love it. It's just one of those guitars that stand out and you can say "haha, my guitar is different, while everybody else already has a start/lespaul/SG/ etc".

Now at first, you're wondering "my god, that must be the most uncomfortable guitar to play, ever". Not true AT ALL. You'll be surprised at how COMFORTABLE this guitar is. When I bought this guitar, I tried similar shaped guitars, but never actually tried playing this one. I was to surprised to say that this guitar is MORE COMFORTABLE then the stratocaster. Just try it yourself!

The guitar is also amazingly light weight. Barely weighs more than my beginning strat. I can strap this guitar up to my shoulders and wear it all day!

I play mostly Metallica (like everybody else, yeah), and my amp is a Fender Frontman 15G (yeah, crappy practice amp, but it came in a pack with my strat). However, the guitar just makes the amp look good.

Through my Boss DS-1 Distortion pedal, this guitar is a beast IMO. Ofcourse, the humbuckers make the guitar sound just hard when distorted, the clean is just beautiful. Stuff like the Nothing Else Matters, More than Words, and Snow Hey Oh sound awesome, even through a crappy amp. I can only imagine how good it'll sound through a good amp.

Like I said in the Features, this guitar is the most comfortable guitar I've played in my life. Jackson neck makes solos and chords easy.


The only thing I dislike about the guitar is the tremelo. Every time I use it, the screw loosens, which require me to tighten it. It doesn't fall off at all, it just gets loosened.

I've had this guitar for a month now, and it still isn't wearing down. However, being the silly person I am, I dinged the corner and now it's bent in. The top left leg of the guitar is so long, you have to watch out.

If I had a gig, I'd definitely carry a backup, just because I'm superstitious. Would I need the backup? definitely not.

Guitar center was easy to deal with?

I have been playing for a little over a year now. To be honest, this guitar has made me a better player. It's just the playability of this axe is just, unexplainable.

At first the comfort really through me off, and when looking at this guitar, don't let that be a factor of purchasing this guitar. It really is a comfortable guitar, honest.

If someone stole this guitar, I'd probably cry to death and never play guitar again, because I'm never gonna buy another $500 guitar, but i love it.

Whenever my friends come over, and try out my guitar, not a single complaint has come out of their mouths. They absolutely love it, almost as much as I do.


However, the ultimate decision when you buy this guitar is, what kind of tunings are you gonna play. If you're gonna play standard, standard, standard. GET THIS GUITAR. DONT HESITATE.

However, if you're gonna play different tunings, don't even look at this guitar, nor other guitars with floyd roses.

Thank you Jackson, for this awesome guitar.

as above

This guitar is perfect for my guitar playing and makes easy work of solos, arpeggios and general badass riff-mongering. I play lead guitar for hooliganSwamp, we generally play balls out Rock'n'Roll stuff. Through a 100watt JCM2000 TSL this axe is action packed. I got it as an upgrade for my first guitar(Jackson permormer) and both the action and detonator pickups took me to new levels of playing. BUT! After a year with the guitar the pots went intermittant and I went with the general consensus and upgraded the pups - Dimebucker w/coil split in the bridge and a '59 in the neck and the Warrior really starts kicking ass! With the detonators there's some degree of tonal diversity but they don't harness the full potential of this axe - especially with pickup selector in mid position. After a few mods this guitar will sound as good as one worth twice as much! (rated 9 with electronics upgrade) check out hooliganswamp on myspace to hear this beast in action! there's some sexy ass ones of me too... (er ok!)

I got this second hand so don't know about factory spec, but the components are all great quality so you can play around with the action as much as you like. I've literally taken this guitar completely apart (all but removing the neck!) and it all went back together without a hitch. My favourite setup so far is to use heavy gauge strings (11s), put an extra trem spring in the back for more precise pitch diving, and tune to Eb so everything loosens up a bit. Do this and the guitar can do anything! Seriously this guitar is unbelievable. The finish is great and ready to take a beating - those horns arn't gonna stay fresh forever!

This guitar was built for gigging, I've gigged without a backup for ages and the only time it waent wrong was my fault for some dodge soldering. If you arte gigging then you shouldn't be worried about the finish, well not condidering the type of music you should be playing on this beast!
Extra large strap buttons are fine. (four marks knocked off for stock electronics)

Corporate whores all the way...

Been playing 7 years and this guitar is all I need to continue to improve, I keep finding harmonics in places I didn't know there were strings.. and all that sort of thing

2003, Japan made, one of the last Jacksons ever produced before Fender bought them out.
24 jumbo frets.
One volume, one tone, one three way toggle.
Two Duncan Designed Detanator pickups. (Think generic Invaders)
Alder body, decent stock strap buttons.
Bolt on 24 fret/25.5 ridiculously fast maple neck with sharkfin inlays.
Jackson Licensed Floyd Rose
Jackson tuners
Chrome hardware

Reviewing this guitar, I guess it would be obvious I play metal. I play it through a Boss ME-50 in front of a Mesa Nomad. I give the guitar a 7 with the factory pickups, but I have since installed EMG 81 and 85's, and with that configuration I'd be leaning more towards a 9 or 10. The stock pickups weren't the worst I've heard, but the guitar definately benefitted from the upgrade. My distortion is really thick, palm mutes sound great, but it's still very clear, notes ring out well. I've heard a lot of complaints about active cleans (try rolling back the volume or something?), but the 85 in the bridge and a little of chorus and I'm very satisfied, I'm not as picky as I am with my clean as I am with my distortion though.

This is where I really love the guitar. From the factory, I honestly can't tell you how well it was setup, because this was my first guitar with a tremolo and I broke a string before I played a chord on it. But when it's being stuffed in a boxed and shipped across the country, I'm not expecting anything fantastic anyway. I have had the guitar professionally adjusted and the EMG's set to factory spec and I couldn't be happier. It has one of the fastest, most comfortable necks I've played. I find nothing in its price range comparable. It has a very good finish, with its shape it has been banged a few times, and the two or three dings it has are no bigger than a pinhead.

I played the guitar on my own for a year with no problems at all, and I have been playing live with it for almost a year, with no problems as well. I find it to be a very reliable guitar. It's very sturdy, and the Floyd holds tune quite well. I can put it in the case, go to practice, pull it out, and only have to fine tune it. The strap buttons are definately the best stock buttons I've ever seen. They're huge. I had strap locks on it, but ended up taking them off because they hold my strap just as safely with zero nonsense. I would never gig without a backup, I have broke strings on this guitar live. Strings will break, the tremolo will go out of tune. You need a backup. You'd never guess from how ridulous it looks but it's easy to play sitting down.

Never needed it

I have been playing for three years. I don't think I know everything or anything, but at this point in the road this guitar works well for me. With the couple upgrades I gave it, it's become a very realible and great sounding guitar that has been my main live axe for months. I have played/own Schecter, Fender, Gibson, Epiphone, Ibanez, Squire,, etc, and I never found a guitar I like as much. Basiically, it's a 500 dollar guitar that I find plays, sounds, and looks better than almost any guitar I've seen all the way up to the 800-900 dollar range. If you want serious bang for your buck, and expect the fact that you're going to end up replacing pickups on almost any guitar under 1000 dollars anyway, this is one to look into. Though I don't know if Fender is still producing them on this level of quality?

Japanese Made with 1 volume, 1 tone and a three way selector.
It has two Semour Duncan Humbuckers. i am not sure of the wood but The guitar is very light.
it has a Beautiful black finish, however i am never able to fully clean off the smudgy finger marks( be that my crappy cloth or the guitars finish).
it is a realy cool shape that is very comfortableto play. i mean i went into the store to try it out and i was shocked at how comfortable it was, im sorry kelly fans but they are a pain to play whereas this is not.
The floyde rose is also realy good, when i bought it having heard all the horror stories about floyde roses i was amazed at how easie it was to tune. you do however hav to play around quite a bit when restringing as with all floyde roses.
now the Neck has no negatives at all. it is as thin as a wizard two neck! ( i measured it ) and with jumbo frets is one of the greatest plays i have ever had!!
Now this is where it gets sad, when i bought this beauty, be it jacksons fault or yet another problem with that damn store i bought it in there was no case. and considering the odd shape it set me back quite a bit to buy one..( not impressed)

This guitar is the envy of all my guitar mates. it is a beauty when you get some heavy distortion on it but it is also great for clean ( almost more so), however it only is great with my GT8 and im sure with any setting that has some good distortion because without that it wasnt all that great on my tiny 25w peavy. this is mainly due to the stock pickups as they arent all that great.
despit this the guitar still has a huge range and sounds great, jus dont expect a fender or gibson type sound out of it.
But still, nothing can deter my unfailing love for this guitar, some say that they would buy a new one if theirs was stolen, i would make it my lifes aim to hunt down its theif and...... hurt him.....allot.

um, when i bought this guitar it was a showcase modle ( hence the discounted price) so imnot sure what its original conditioning was like. fair enough to say it had been played around with a bit, ( damn you Rockshop ) but i have eventually got it to a setting i like.( very easy to do )

this guitar will go through it all with you ( slight exaguration ).
ok, due to its cool shape i am forever dinking it on different things.
( however the paint is not easy to damage ill give it that! ) the finish on all the equipment has not shown any sighn of rust the whole time i have had it ( 10 out of 10 ). not so shure about the electrics though....
i have replaced my strap buttons with strap locks as i did not want to test how it held up against being dropped . (because i have a leather strap and we all know how that ne goes)
i definatly can depend on it, proof being that it is at current time my only guitar as it is all i realy need... for now :)
i would gig with it as my only guitar as it is my only guitar however i would get another in case of the ever occuring Phenomina of a broken string.

um, this is where it gets annoying.
since i bought it as a showcase modle it had already peen played a bit and the volume pot is broken ( i am not able to get to the highest level without it cutting out)
when i rung the store they told me that they would have to send it out to the jackson company to get it fixed ( another downpoint of living in New Zealand ).
all this for one little volume pot.
and living without it for the few months it would take would be catastrophic. so to this day i am uable to get full volume ( my lazyness for not fixing it myself).
i am notr sure if this is Jacksons fault or the stores.... but ill blame the store..damn you.

this of course is no reflection on the guitar....my beautiful....

i have been looking for another guitar to add to my collection but am constantly dissapointed with others i try.
the warrior, for its price is one of the best guitars i have ever played. everyone tells me how thin ibanez necks are but to me they might as well be fenders.
however i am looking for some replacement pickups,
and in my dreams i have a one of those new ibanez pivoting flode rose systems and a realy mean paintjob on it :)

and as another reviewer said earlier. i would go through hell for it.

2004 Jackson Warriot XT
24 frets
Gloss black with a thin clear finish
Volume,Tone,3 way selector
2 Giant double coil pickups
String-thou body
Low profile neck

Pros:
very playable neck
Decent sound
Looks nice

Cons:
Akward shape means that you have to spend $100 for useable case
Cant use 99.9% of stands

It has a heavy sound which is good for hard rock/metel but dosnt suit most else.
It is noisy past about 70& volume.

It was set up pretty good from the factory, nothing as far as compliants go.

The guitar itself is good and solid, but the finish is horrible and wears off pretty quick if your not carefull.

Although I've heard that most have had bad experience with this, the store i got it from (Major & Minor) has the best customer support of anywhere ive ever been.

It is alright I guess but I would still choose a good ol' strat over it any day.

I hate string-thru bodies because you cant adjust anything and adding a bridge down the road would look ugly without more modifications then it is worth.

2005 Made in Japan
24.5 Frets
1 volume 1 tone 3 way selector
2 Duncan Design Detonator HB (HB-108) Passive of course :)
Maple Neck, Alder Body Rosewood fretboard
Floyd Rose licensed bridge , double lock
Perfect setup for the price and the music style this guitar is made. Quality wood, what else can i expect.

I play from Swedish death metal to Thrash and Progressive. In home i use a 25W Ibanez amp along with a Boss GT-5 effect and a Boss Metal zone 2 (MT-2). With the stock pickups it had really (i mean REALLY) thick and fat rhythm sound (i thought i was living in a dream the first time i played it) BUT through time you'll see that you ll have to change the Detonators. I personally chose Duncan Invader for bridge and SH-2 for neck which is a very good combination in my tastes. The guitar had a bright and full sound in rhythm ,and by changing the pickups it has kickass sound in lead as well.

i m giving it a 9 (for the price the sound is great) with the detonators, and a Full 10 with the Seymour's.

Very good setup, had no probs from the start, i just had to fix the pickup height a little bit and it was fine right out of the box (made in japan ;) )

No flaws whatsoever. all the tones, and pickup selector was fine.

It will surely be great in live playing, and i cant wait for it as i have just got it back from painting it with my fav anime series and looks awesome (poser factor = 10 lol). Looks solid and didnt have any probs. the hardware is great. I can depend on it, i always use some backup, but i would go to a live without one if it comes to trust.

1 year warranty, and 1 free service from the store i bought it.never dealt with the company. cannot give a rating just for the store.

I have been playing for 7 years now, i own a Fender Stratocaster (Mexico) and a Ibanez RG470.
I wish i had asked many ear plugs for my neighbours hehe.
If it was stolen or lost i would definately go for another one (but i watch it like a parent and i would chase the thief even in hell)
For this price i wasnt expecting i would get a such good and quality guitar. I hate the fact that in home i am afraid that the angles will hit something and i will scratch it :). I don't like comparing one guitar to another. it is like comparing girls, you can't do that, each one has its own character. I chose to test it after seeing the specs and when i played i really liked it.
I wish it had some invaders with it lol.

If you are in a dillema, don't be. go get it.

I believe 2003 or 2004 made in Japan (got it used but like new)
The features on these are all the same.
I have the flame blue finish. It has all the basic features you would need.The hardware is ok not bad the pickups are ok not the best I have had good duncans and EMG's before so they are in a differnt class than the detonators but not bad for stock on a reasonable priced guitar.The pots are cheap (you get what you pay for) but work fine

It sounds good I will mainly play with distortion on this guitar (I mean thats what it was made for anyway) and it works good for that. It seems ok as far as noise and has a good full sound. I am not big on leads with this guitar yet I think I am just not used to the bridge pickup. I might be upgrading it in the future.

Finish is awsome I love the way it looks. I bought the guitar used and I am not sure if it was ever set up professionally so I cant realy rate the factory setup. I slammed the action real low and it has minimal fret buzz so I am inpressed with that. Since I will not be playing alot of clean tones thru this I was not to picky about the fret buss. Nut is nice and low, eveything seemed lined up well. For the way I like to hold they guitar the neck seems to be a bit heavy compared to the butt. I wish it had a bit more weight in the upper fin to offset this, not a compaint more a personel preferance

It seems pretty durable but I would be careful with the sharp ends to make sure they are not damged. Both of my pots are dirty and have static. Since I bought the guitar used I not sure if they came like this from the factory or if they went bad in a short period of time. I am just going to put in some good ones and not worry about it. (Eventually you would want to do this anyway)They strap buttons are really fat so they seem to work well for being stock.

I have had lots of guitars mex strat, Parker fly mojo, epi Les Paul, Ibanez cheapy and a schecter. This guitar is just different than the others I have owned and I like it for rock and distortion. It screams out 80's hairband and I think that makes it alot of fun to play! I will eventually upgrade pickups and electronics but other than that I will probably leave it alone. Good product for the money!

i believe it was made in indonesia
24 jumbo frets
i volume knob, and 1 tone knob
3-way pickup selector
im not sure on some of the other specifics

sounds damn good
perfect for fast solos since action is low
good for rock- 3 day grace, evenecence, all that fun stuff
no feed back what so ever when used with distortion pedals, unlike my last guitar

i have the dark matalic red, flawless and beautiful
everything was set up well as far as i can tell, but i bought at a guitar shop and the guy adjusts all that stuff
i cant find anything wrong with it except finger prints show up well, but thats more of a personal problem

i believe this guitar can definatly survive live playing its really sturdy, all the hardwere seems as though it will last really well
finish seems very hard, but i dont recomend dropping it
strap buttons are very solid
extremely dependable
i would gig without a backup

dont konw i haven't had to deal with it

ive been playing for a little more that 2 years. i own a basic tube amp some off brand, i dont know the name off the top of my head, but it sounds great!!!!!!
i love the shape, its so metal, and i have the action set pretty low so its easy to play fast.

See www.Jacksonguitars.com under the X-Series Colum,n for exact specs.

Otherwise, it a 24-fret Maple Neck w/ Rosewood Fret Board and Alder Body guitar. IT has Detonator Pickups stock and a three way switch w/ 1 tone and volume control. It could be more versatile with more knobs but it only 400 Dollars anyway!

I quickly had Dimarzio Evolution humbuckers installed after a week or so. THe detontators were still quit decent. No excess feedback and they could do a nice clean to an evil bite. I rate it 8 w/ Detonators, but 10 with Evo's!

THe Guitar was well Set-up from the factory, a little maitanance was required to get the action perfect.

Mine was made in Japan, but it's held up very well. The pots are scratchy and cut out, so they need to be replaced. I honestly depend on this guitar alot and I never gig with a backup.

Never talked directly to Jackson, but they are owned by Fender now so that kinda sucks....

If you want an Amazing Metal guitar this is it. It's built with quality wood and plays great. This is the best guitar in it's price range next to Ibanez. I suggest switching the pup's because Detonators are decent, but to really make your warrior kill you need some REAL Seymours or Dimarzios. IF somebody stole my Warrior I would probably have to raise the Occult on whoever did. Definently would buy another.

Features...Well amazing...This guitar was made in Japan which is much better than an American made guitar...1 volume and 1 tone, 3 way switch for the humbucking Duncan Designed pickups which sound not bad but i got them replaced with EMG 81/60 which sounds much better...Liscenced Floyd Rose Bridge which makes that guitar never go out of tune...if it goes out of tune after kicking the whammy bar's ass then check if the bridge is balanced...Extra thin neck with 24 jumbo frets...

Well...I play everything from classical to metal (Thrash, Heavy, Black, Death...) It's never noisy even with the duncan designed detonators but when replaced with the EMG 81/60 the sound was much better...When playing classical the sound is really undescribable...you'll have to hear it to believe it...

The guitar was really well made...the fit is amazing and the bridge is really well balanced and makes the guitar never go out of tune when i'm using the whammy bar (in a sick way ;) )...

I have this guitar for about a year now and it never disapointed me but it got smashed a few times on the floor so the painting went off but i used car polish and it worked...The buttons are rock solid I always used that guitar live and it never disapointed me...I always clean it and take good care of it and that's what everyone must do to keep his guitar more durable...

Never needed them...

I've been playing for 7 years (I'm only 18) and my first guitar was a 100$ Washburn but it's really good for a beginner then I bought a ESP-KH602 and a Custom Gibson Les Paul but the WRXT is really amazing and it is the best fit for me...If it got stolen i'd buy it over and over again (can't live without it)...