I picked up a 2008 Jackson KE5FR MIJ recently which is/was advertised as having a JB/Jazz set, however when doing some maintenance/mods I had the pickups out and found that the neck pickup is labelled on the bottom plate as an SH4 not an SH2 as a Jazz should be. The bridge is labelled as a TB4 which is fine but I'm very puzzled as to what the neck one is as I've never been aware of a neck JB. I tried searching for info but found nothing conclusive so emailed SD and they said:
"Thanks for reaching out. It's a little tricky to say for sure, however, I would assume because the pickups were OEM for these guitars, they may have just been labeled like this for internal reasons.
Alternatively, this could be a neck version of the JB that was made according to Jackson specs. If that is the case, it would be nearly identical to the Jazz but slightly more mid present.
Jackson might be able to shed some more light on this for you. Because these weren't pickups we sold directly, I am unable to provide too much additional information on this specific set"
Now I thought it interesting that it could be a modified JB being almost the same as a Jazz except that when I did a resistance measure its showing as 16.05k which is more than double that of the Jazz I have in another guitar (measures 7.21K as it should) so seems like it is a neck configured JB?
I have emailed Jackson to see if they can help but haven't heard back yet so thought I'd see if anyone here has knowledge of what it is.
"Thanks for reaching out. It's a little tricky to say for sure, however, I would assume because the pickups were OEM for these guitars, they may have just been labeled like this for internal reasons.
Alternatively, this could be a neck version of the JB that was made according to Jackson specs. If that is the case, it would be nearly identical to the Jazz but slightly more mid present.
Jackson might be able to shed some more light on this for you. Because these weren't pickups we sold directly, I am unable to provide too much additional information on this specific set"
Now I thought it interesting that it could be a modified JB being almost the same as a Jazz except that when I did a resistance measure its showing as 16.05k which is more than double that of the Jazz I have in another guitar (measures 7.21K as it should) so seems like it is a neck configured JB?
I have emailed Jackson to see if they can help but haven't heard back yet so thought I'd see if anyone here has knowledge of what it is.
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