nexion218
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Finally. 
And so is my white Black Winter set. I've always read good reviews and heard stellar demos, but what initiated the GAS was that I went into a music store where my guitar teacher and friend works and there they had an X series Soloist in taxi yellow. Despite the atrocious quality control of the X Series, the things was a joy to my hands, very comfortable and it just mesmerized the Jackson fanboy in me. Not enough though to pay it's new asking price and that color was disgusting anyways. So I went on a hunt for a used one and managed to get a white one with Jackson branded hardcase for around 400 USD worth of local currency. It was basically brand new: the guy barely played it, I believe he in fact hated the thing. The way it was set uo, I would've hated it too.
Anyways, did an upgrade on the sustain block and swapped the pot metal saddles of the Floyd Special for German ones, did some spot leveling on the frets and that's when I got the idea to make it a "winter themed" guitar: the guitar is white with black headstock and hardware, all I needed was a set of Black Winters - in white! Thanksfully my local SD distributor managed to get it as a shop floor custom (or at least I believe so, because I only had to pay around 30 USD for the custom color). The visuals turned out to be stellar and on top of it it is one of the best sounding PUPs I've ever heard. Based on my limited experience, it is a fine cross between a JB and DiMarzio's Imperium: HUGE output, cut through anything, thick and tight bass and awesome clarity/note separation. It's almost like the bass frequencies are separated in a way from the rest not to interefere with each other. Now only if that fingerboard was ebony/black too...:scratchch
And so is my white Black Winter set. I've always read good reviews and heard stellar demos, but what initiated the GAS was that I went into a music store where my guitar teacher and friend works and there they had an X series Soloist in taxi yellow. Despite the atrocious quality control of the X Series, the things was a joy to my hands, very comfortable and it just mesmerized the Jackson fanboy in me. Not enough though to pay it's new asking price and that color was disgusting anyways.
So I went on a hunt for a used one and managed to get a white one with Jackson branded hardcase for around 400 USD worth of local currency. It was basically brand new: the guy barely played it, I believe he in fact hated the thing. The way it was set uo, I would've hated it too.Anyways, did an upgrade on the sustain block and swapped the pot metal saddles of the Floyd Special for German ones, did some spot leveling on the frets and that's when I got the idea to make it a "winter themed" guitar: the guitar is white with black headstock and hardware, all I needed was a set of Black Winters - in white! Thanksfully my local SD distributor managed to get it as a shop floor custom (or at least I believe so, because I only had to pay around 30 USD for the custom color). The visuals turned out to be stellar and on top of it it is one of the best sounding PUPs I've ever heard. Based on my limited experience, it is a fine cross between a JB and DiMarzio's Imperium: HUGE output, cut through anything, thick and tight bass and awesome clarity/note separation. It's almost like the bass frequencies are separated in a way from the rest not to interefere with each other. Now only if that fingerboard was ebony/black too...:scratchch
