Interesting picture of the new Jackson X Series models...

[tc]

There's a natural one that's been put on Drum City Guitar Land that shows the actual size of the neck through. The wings are much, much smaller than your average neck through guitar. Makes you think why?

I've got a couple of theories. First one is they wanted to reduce the tonal effect of basswood on their guitars. Second, that the maple they're using is cheaper than the basswood they're using. Lots of others. Interesting, whatever the reason is.

 

[jmh151]

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I believe that's just the way Jackson does their neck thru guitars, I've seen some older american Jacksons like that. If anything I'd prefer it to be like that, many say the dominant tone you hear on neck thrus is whatever wood the neck blank is made of, it doesn't matter too much what they use for the body wings.

The method other companies like Carvin do- making the neck thru the same width as the neck- is cheaper since it saves wood. The design you see on this Jackson is actually more expensive since they get less neck thru blanks out of the same piece

 

[tc]

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All Jacksons I've seen use the narrower neck through...both MIJ and MIA models. Most, or all of them have been post-Fender models though.

Another neck through style they do is one where the neck through portion is not 100% body width, and it's actually neck through + lower through piece + wings. Kind of like a neck through length set neck tenon.

Custom Shop (This one might be of that second variety I mentioned.)

Custom Shop (This one is like the one I mentioned, but instead of the lower through central piece that everything attaches to they used a full mahogany body that receives the ebony neck through.)

MIJ (Whole piece neck through, narrow width.)

 

[TheLivingDead]

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Odd.

I dig it.

 

[Varg]

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I thought the X series would not have headstock, only neck, binding?

 

[Varg]

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I have two Jackson neck throughs BTW but I dont know how big the wings are, its not something I ever thought about.

 

[TheLivingDead]

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Jesus ****ing Christ that's amazing.

 

[lex666]

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Jesus ****ing Christ that's amazing.

I 2nd that emotion.

I really like the 'all natural' look. Especially the neck. Very sexy.

 

[lex666]

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Single volume? C'mon now... I need at least 2 volumes and a single tone.

 

[Kam]

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Maybe it's something to do with wanting the whole bridge route to be on the mape instead of overlapping into the basswood.

I mean, I've seen countless guitars with trem routes partially or wholly in basswood and I'm sure it doesn't really make the manufacturing process easier so I have no idea why. Just a thought.

 

[tc]

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Well, basswood is soft. Ibanez mounts double locking trems, both with locking and non-locking studs in basswood bodies. Maybe Jackson wasn't too sure of it since they mostly work with maple, alder and mahogany and wanted a more solid plank to mount the bridges on. Not sure about it though.

 

[Edgecrusher]

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I noticed this the other day when looking at the specs for the X series. It says they are "through body necks" then if you look up like the USA selects it says they are "neck through body" Im fairly certain it wasnt a typo theres a reason for the difference in wording and it has to do with the size of the wings. But the reasons why i dont know.

 

[marvelous_seven]

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Bump so Zerberus can see it and chime in here

 

[jmh151]

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Maybe it's something to do with wanting the whole bridge route to be on the mape instead of overlapping into the basswood.

I mean, I've seen countless guitars with trem routes partially or wholly in basswood and I'm sure it doesn't really make the manufacturing process easier so I have no idea why. Just a thought.

It depends what quality basswood you're using. I had a 90's Ibanex RG570 where the basswood was so soft the trem posts ripped out of the guitar. My maple over basswood Axis is very strong. Maybe Jackson did it to ensure strength- or to ensure it has the same tone of the american counterparts

 

[Ashurbanipal]

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Custom Shop (This one is like the one I mentioned, but instead of the lower through central piece that everything attaches to they used a full mahogany body that receives the ebony neck through.)

That's pretty hot, got a front shot? I wonder what the rationale behind this is - hard to get a good grade piece of ebony that's big enough? Experimenting with tonal effect of neck through?

As for the others, I imagine that the width doesn't matter much tonally, as both the alder and mahogany winged examples in the pics have a Floyd, which is going to have a more decisive effect. In addition, if the guitar has a substantial top, it's going to also have an impact.

The only neck through guitar I've played is Pete C's proto. A good way to enter the neck through world, methinks :cool2: