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I absolutely love Premier guitar channel and wanted to say thank you John Bolinger for all your hard work and dedication and you’re awesome interviews being a player myself you know what questions to ask 👊🏽
~Wayne Should Of Heald Out,..Imagine If He Would've Still ``Had Ownership`` ....I Made A``Purchase``Way Back When, ..And Perfection,.Then, After``Keeping Loyal``To The Name, ( Knowing The Changes ) I Had Paid $1,400 For The Guitar, And Once I Placed In My Hand, And I Started Playing, I Got Little Sharp Bites Out Of My Hand, From The Fk`n Fret Bars! ( I Was So Beyond Let Down, How Can I Still Talk People In- -to Buying Into That,, You Have NO Idea, The Sick /And Sad -Feeling I Had In My Gut..) ........I Been A Fan For 43 Years!
I just got my custom shop rhoads a couple days ago and this came up in my recommended! The craftsmanship blew me away. It’s perfect. It’s such a beautiful guitar. Great job guys!
I look forward to purchasing my Grandson a Jake E. Lee model someday. He seen one at the guitar shop and fell in love with it. I’m thinking it would be a great 16th birthday present.
I have been playing Jackson guitars since 1988 I have never been to the factory Thanks John and Premier Guitar for doing this. One day hopefully they can make me a signature model of my own
I think for around $5k they'll make you anything you want! I've only been playing Jacksons for 8 years or so (out of 17 years total) and I've been saving up for my very own custom shop model after seeing the crazy stuff they make back there
Thank you John for the awesome Jackson factory tour. I purchased my very first Jackson in 1986 serial #1010. (9th one built) It was gunmetal gray w/Kahler Pro 2. I loved every second of this video.
Awesome tour and discussion - I am very impressed with these artisans and master craftsmen - and their work. I also have a great deal of respect for the patience and time they spend on the instruments - it seems clear they take great pride and are treated well as they stay for a long time and pass along the knowledge - a beautiful thing man!
This was such a great video. I absolutely love Pats work since his days at Yamaha. The Jackson and Charvel he has been building since being at Jackson are next level though.
@@premierguitar Thanks for posting this interesting incite. But none of the guitars from Jackson/Charvel Custom Shop can be ordered by customers in Europe.
Charvel custom shop stuff is pretty awesome. I have a team built San Dimas and a team built SoCal. The team built stuff is expensive, as any custom shop order is, but not as expensive as some other manufacturers off the shelf production run models. Master Built is another story. Those babies are mucho dinero!
I saw KISS in 82 with Vinnie Vincent on lead. He played a Gold Randy Rhodes Jackson. Beside Randy himself, that was the first guitarist I saw play a RR Jackson. That tour he used a Charvel Superstrat as well. Jackson outdid themselves with the Jackson VV or Vinnie Vincent dbl V. Like Vinnie or not but he had some killer guitars.
I can relate to this. I saw a KISS at the Glens Falls Civic Center back in the early 80s and Vinny Vincent had his pink three-quarter flying V that was the very first time I ever saw a Jackson in real life.
@@Firehawk-205 Yeah! I saw em on both(Tank Tour 1 & 2) Creatures Of The Night & Lick It Up. COTN bombed so bad due to their Elder reputation that they just recycled the same set for LIU tour. Yeah, great shows as Eric Carr was jamming at a faster pace.
Great tour - but I'm all about the EVH Wolfgang hanging on the wall around the 20 minute mark. Tune-o-matic hard tail, tri-colour burst and zebra bobbins - that thing is gorgeous.
An excellent format. Not just one guy "saying "over here we've got this and "over there is that. There's an expression in my old Army Unit. If something is real and not a copy IT'S DECLARED "ITS DIRTY." If in the case of this build, I would say "YEP IT'S DUSTY.".! Thanks for the post..
My '95 Charvel San Dimas Traditional is still one of my favorite guitars to play. If their stuff today is even close to that quality customers will be very satisfied.
I know every one of those dudes, and they are all very cool dudes, Dave especially him and Big Joe, they didn't show Big Joe, are super cool guys, super talented!
If you want one bad enough, find a way. Put money aside every week, take on overtime at your work, get a second job, cash out vacation time if your job does that sort of thing. If you have a 401k, you can take out a personal loan.
Don't kid yourself. After the shamozel around eight years ago, Europe has lost total access to the custom shop. Just cos a slew of custom orders were returned as they had been messed up, replacements had to be built at company loss, some low to mid six figure dollars.
A really cool Custom shop order is called a double Randy Rhodes V that Robin Crosby of Ratt played. They make both sides of the V the same length. Where that differs from the King V is the RR dbl V has more space(between the two V)in the center than the King V. Theres a tour of those guitars here on TH-cam.
I suppose it takes up less room and keeps the build slots in order if it's not going to be just a fancy paint job on a body plucked off the regular production line.
CNC is practical for sure but I clearly remember the difference in the feel of G&L guitars before they were CNC’d and when they started using the machine. George Fullerton used to say that hand made is better and I saw what he meant when they changed.
@@carlton1390 There really shouldn't be any difference with modern cutting machines. I'm assuming there's still an element of hand finishing in terms of final sanding of the neck to ensure no tooling marks before it goes to the spray booth? Perhaps with modern production methods and less manual labour involved, the guitars are actually closer to what was originally specced, but it was that human input that left a difference that was within the allowed tolerances, but was subtly different? It might even be down to a change in staff, with a different pair of hands having their own input? A tale of two Ibanez; One Japanese, the other Indonesian. Both are specified to have the Wizard II neck profile, both measure the same depth on my calipers, with barely a .01 of a millimetres difference, yet my hands tell me that the Japanese RG has the thinner, wider neck. What it seems to be is that the Japanese Wizard II profile is ever so slightly flatter, with a touch more on the shoulders, but that's not quite what my brain is interpreting upon first laying my left hand around the Indonesian RG neck. I would imagine that the late 90's/early 2000's Wizard II should be the "correct" version, yet I would have imagined that Ibanez provided the Indonesian facility with the precise details for shaping the neck? Perhaps it was the manual labour, trying to sand the bastard hard wenge/purpleheart neck and going too far on the sides? Perhaps Ibanez didn't bother with sending people who knew their instruments to ensure things were done properly, perhaps they just supplied the factory with width and depth measurements and let them fill in the blanks as many brands have done in the past with their lower tier, outsourced production? I don't have other examples of these specific models to compare so I'm left with mere speculation.
@@pauln6803 It may just be in my head but I perceive a more hand crafted (non CNC'd) guitar to have more character. There are very nice guitars made with the use of CNC and I probably couldn't tell the difference with many but I like them more if I know they weren't
I’m currently in the process of saving for a custom Jackson Kelly seven string. I’m just a bit torn on what I should go for in terms of color (I have all other specs planned), so I’ll leave it up to the comments section. Should I go with Shattered Mirror or Black 3.0 w/ UV Green binding?
I have a Custom Shop Warrior being built right now. The only problem is that it takes forever. 3 years at least. I also wish they'd expand to include the Pablo Santana Extreme versions again!
@@gregorylyon1004 they wait 3 years so mike Shannon is building it I got my hands on a 7 string Jackson abolene shark fin inlays I think he did a 27 inch scale on it it was NOT an impressive build I kept hurting my hand at the first fret I don't know much about the guy he was a carpenter at first !!??? I think he is kind of overrated
Either this is old or Branden Ellis has another sick custom coming haha. I was just watching his collection. Always wanted a Jackson but never wanted a cheaper one. Just recently got that camo concept series 7 string Rhodes and lovin it
Did vintage Jacksons have a thinner headstock? I swear they look thinner and sharper on the original two Rhoads Vs, as well as on the SL2Vs they showed in the video, but I can't find anything online about it.
They took 4 years to build my custom warrior and screwed it up. Wrong paint, MOP instead of abalone, wrong tuners, poorly wired pups. If I were to screw up an order that took 4 years, I would get FIRED not praised. They did a great job on the frets and neck, I will give them that.
I have no idea, but why doesn't Jackson have more signature colors for the Dave Davidson Warrior 7? He has a red 27.5" scale that is no where to be found for purchase? There's even a yellow one too. But no... the snorefest black open grain and his classic mohogany.
I play left handed like Jimi H but my inspiration is N Strauss of Alice's rockin band par excellance and she of course plays somewhat better but I love em both. God bless both and the rest of the AC band!🫠
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I absolutely love Premier guitar channel and wanted to say thank you John Bolinger for all your hard work and dedication and you’re awesome interviews being a player myself you know what questions to ask 👊🏽
~Wayne Should Of Heald Out,..Imagine If He Would've Still
``Had Ownership`` ....I Made A``Purchase``Way Back When,
..And Perfection,.Then, After``Keeping Loyal``To The Name,
( Knowing The Changes ) I Had Paid $1,400 For The Guitar,
And Once I Placed In My Hand, And I Started Playing, I Got
Little Sharp Bites Out Of My Hand, From The Fk`n Fret Bars!
( I Was So Beyond Let Down, How Can I Still Talk People In-
-to Buying Into That,, You Have NO Idea, The Sick /And Sad
-Feeling I Had In My Gut..) ........I Been A Fan For 43 Years!
I just got my custom shop rhoads a couple days ago and this came up in my recommended! The craftsmanship blew me away. It’s perfect. It’s such a beautiful guitar. Great job guys!
Lucky you. Europe cannot order even custom select guitars never mind a full custom shop order.
How much for the custom shop guitar??
Oh man,that zebra stripes Jackson logo is Great!!!
I look forward to purchasing my Grandson a Jake E. Lee model someday. He seen one at the guitar shop and fell in love with it. I’m thinking it would be a great 16th birthday present.
u such a cool gramps. ❤
im sure hell love it
That’s a gift he will cherish forever.
Brandon Ellis new custom is my favorite Jackson!!!
"The Original Charvel Gang" documentary is a must see for early Charvel/Jackson purists 🎸
Great watch! I second this!
@@michaelnugent9758any link to it?
I can’t remember the name of the bridge they used in the early 80s before Floyderose..
My dad had a bad ass one. I want to say it started with a S..
@@curtanderson4145 I believe you are thinking of a Kahler tremolo.
As an independent builder of custom guitars and basses, I love these looks inside the custom shops of the big companies with the big budgets.
I have been playing Jackson guitars since 1988
I have never been to the factory
Thanks John and Premier Guitar for doing this.
One day hopefully they can make me a signature model of my own
I think for around $5k they'll make you anything you want! I've only been playing Jacksons for 8 years or so (out of 17 years total) and I've been saving up for my very own custom shop model after seeing the crazy stuff they make back there
John probably the best shop interview I've ever seen.
Amazing people.
Thank you John for the awesome Jackson factory tour. I purchased my very first Jackson in 1986 serial #1010. (9th one built) It was gunmetal gray w/Kahler Pro 2. I loved every second of this video.
I'm in love! Jackson s my favorite guitar. I've been playing them for 32 of my 38 years. I would love to work in a Jackson factory like this.
Cheers to both those Jackson guys - you can tell they both care . Hardworking- BC ✌🏼
Bohlinger is a cool kat you could just chill and have a few beers with and talk gear. Chillin vibes.
It’s nice to see a guy who is genuinely passionate about his job
That black on black Jackson t shirt is awesome.👍
Awesome tour and discussion - I am very impressed with these artisans and master craftsmen - and their work. I also have a great deal of respect for the patience and time they spend on the instruments - it seems clear they take great pride and are treated well as they stay for a long time and pass along the knowledge - a beautiful thing man!
This was such a great video. I absolutely love Pats work since his days at Yamaha. The Jackson and Charvel he has been building since being at Jackson are next level though.
Glad you enjoyed it!
@@premierguitar Thanks for posting this interesting incite. But none of the guitars from Jackson/Charvel Custom Shop can be ordered by customers in Europe.
Charvel custom shop stuff is pretty awesome. I have a team built San Dimas and a team built SoCal. The team built stuff is expensive, as any custom shop order is, but not as expensive as some other manufacturers off the shelf production run models. Master Built is another story. Those babies are mucho dinero!
Miss my 80’s custom shop Jacksons.
Seriously enjoyed this video, thank y'all!
Glad you enjoyed it!
That was really awesome! You can tell these guys absolutely love their craft! Love to own a masterbuilt or teambuilt Charvel one day.
Couldn't agree more!
I saw KISS in 82 with Vinnie Vincent on lead. He played a Gold Randy Rhodes Jackson. Beside Randy himself, that was the first guitarist I saw play a RR Jackson. That tour he used a Charvel Superstrat as well. Jackson outdid themselves with the Jackson VV or Vinnie Vincent dbl V. Like Vinnie or not but he had some killer guitars.
I can relate to this. I saw a KISS at the Glens Falls Civic Center back in the early 80s and Vinny Vincent had his pink three-quarter flying V that was the very first time I ever saw a Jackson in real life.
Crazy bit of history about Vinnie's gold Rhoads - that guitar was originally being built for Randy himself and would've gone to him had he lived.
@@MatzaFTW oh! Amazing.
@@Firehawk-205 Yeah! I saw em on both(Tank Tour 1 & 2) Creatures Of The Night & Lick It Up. COTN bombed so bad due to their Elder reputation that they just recycled the same set for LIU tour. Yeah, great shows as Eric Carr was jamming at a faster pace.
Great tour! Thanks John. I’m a proud owner of a RR1 Jackson master built by Mike Shannon. 🤘🏻
Did you mortgage your home to buy it ?? LOL
The hair on my arm just raised when he mentioned that THE Dan Lawrence is doing the graphics. The guy is a legend!
He makes great guitars too. Got a custom build V recently. Best guitar I own.
Great tour - but I'm all about the EVH Wolfgang hanging on the wall around the 20 minute mark.
Tune-o-matic hard tail, tri-colour burst and zebra bobbins - that thing is gorgeous.
Great tour! Thanks!!
Glad you enjoyed it!
An excellent format. Not just one guy "saying "over here we've got this and "over there is that.
There's an expression in my old Army Unit.
If something is real and not a copy IT'S DECLARED "ITS DIRTY."
If in the case of this build, I would say "YEP IT'S DUSTY.".!
Thanks for the post..
My '95 Charvel San Dimas Traditional is still one of my favorite guitars to play. If their stuff today is even close to that quality customers will be very satisfied.
It’s not
No, quality has gone down somewhat.
A Maple neck vintage soloist In the Bengal finish! Count me in
John, I love how comfortable you let people be in these interviews. I hope I become successful enough for you to rig rundown me
I've been waiting for this video for a looooong time
1:22 in and I’m already more impressed than every other shop your.
I know every one of those dudes, and they are all very cool dudes, Dave especially him and Big Joe, they didn't show Big Joe, are super cool guys, super talented!
Wish I still had my early 90s Fusion XL HSS with hot rails. Thanks for doing this tour.
Super cool cideo and tour! Great stuff as always, John! 👏🏻
Gentlemen at Jackson are great craftsman.
At least their CNC machine is.
I had a Jackson back in the 90's. I miss that guitar
at 12:06 video almost took a wrong turn, thankfully Jackson guy got it back on track. Great Job!
The question is, will we ever have money for our own Custom Shop guitar. :D
Welp depends if you want to finance it and treat it as another bill
Nope
Well, you only need 1 kidney to live....
Not me😥
If you want one bad enough, find a way. Put money aside every week, take on overtime at your work, get a second job, cash out vacation time if your job does that sort of thing. If you have a 401k, you can take out a personal loan.
People behind the brand's name are everything ❤
No corporate BS going on there... Awesome he called up the paint dude on camera!
Don't kid yourself. After the shamozel around eight years ago, Europe has lost total access to the custom shop. Just cos a slew of custom orders were returned as they had been messed up, replacements had to be built at company loss, some low to mid six figure dollars.
It’s cool to see where and how your guitar (USA Kelly) was made.
A really cool Custom shop order is called a double Randy Rhodes V that Robin Crosby of Ratt played. They make both sides of the V the same length. Where that differs from the King V is the RR dbl V has more space(between the two V)in the center than the King V. Theres a tour of those guitars here on TH-cam.
Yes, the Double Rhoads is absolutely KILLER and huge too!
Best video on you tube! Thank you...
That pin router is quite impressive. I want one!
I’ve got my first CS Jackson coming soon, can’t friggin wait!
Grew up with Pat's mom, his grandfather was a great craftsman also
Jackson is Best Guitar 🤘🏻🔥🤯
I love my Jackson!
I have one of the Music Zoo natural Charvels. Redwood body with roasted flame maple neck. Best neck I've ever felt on a guitar.
Cool tour! Josh looks like he just got his driver's license.
Great stuff Pat!
Awesome tour and video John.
Glad you enjoyed it
i'd buy one of those tiger stripe Soloist today if they put that into production!
Guitar Geekery Masterclass.
Wow, pin routing in 2024!! So cool!
I suppose it takes up less room and keeps the build slots in order if it's not going to be just a fancy paint job on a body plucked off the regular production line.
CNC is practical for sure but I clearly remember the difference in the feel of G&L guitars before they were CNC’d and when they started using the machine. George Fullerton used to say that hand made is better and I saw what he meant when they changed.
@@carlton1390
There really shouldn't be any difference with modern cutting machines.
I'm assuming there's still an element of hand finishing in terms of final sanding of the neck to ensure no tooling marks before it goes to the spray booth?
Perhaps with modern production methods and less manual labour involved, the guitars are actually closer to what was originally specced, but it was that human input that left a difference that was within the allowed tolerances, but was subtly different?
It might even be down to a change in staff, with a different pair of hands having their own input?
A tale of two Ibanez; One Japanese, the other Indonesian.
Both are specified to have the Wizard II neck profile, both measure the same depth on my calipers, with barely a .01 of a millimetres difference, yet my hands tell me that the Japanese RG has the thinner, wider neck.
What it seems to be is that the Japanese Wizard II profile is ever so slightly flatter, with a touch more on the shoulders, but that's not quite what my brain is interpreting upon first laying my left hand around the Indonesian RG neck.
I would imagine that the late 90's/early 2000's Wizard II should be the "correct" version, yet I would have imagined that Ibanez provided the Indonesian facility with the precise details for shaping the neck?
Perhaps it was the manual labour, trying to sand the bastard hard wenge/purpleheart neck and going too far on the sides?
Perhaps Ibanez didn't bother with sending people who knew their instruments to ensure things were done properly, perhaps they just supplied the factory with width and depth measurements and let them fill in the blanks as many brands have done in the past with their lower tier, outsourced production?
I don't have other examples of these specific models to compare so I'm left with mere speculation.
@@pauln6803 It may just be in my head but I perceive a more hand crafted (non CNC'd) guitar to have more character. There are very nice guitars made with the use of CNC and I probably couldn't tell the difference with many but I like them more if I know they weren't
I have had 7 of them! My Step dad had a bad ass one like an early 80s that had a rare bridge not a Floyd rose..
I’m currently in the process of saving for a custom Jackson Kelly seven string. I’m just a bit torn on what I should go for in terms of color (I have all other specs planned), so I’ll leave it up to the comments section.
Should I go with
Shattered Mirror or Black 3.0 w/ UV Green binding?
Black and green
Wood working fantasy land!
Yes please! Bring the falcon back!
Wish charvel still made the Model 2, 6, and Avenger.
Congrats on 700K subs, 👍👍🍺
I love Jackson Charvel, USA and Japan are the best.
My American Series soloist is incredible quality , 😊
I have a Custom Shop Warrior being built right now. The only problem is that it takes forever. 3 years at least. I also wish they'd expand to include the Pablo Santana Extreme versions again!
Why 3 years?? Are they still growing the tree to build it ?? LOL. Or a backlog
@@gregorylyon1004 Large backlog.
Pablo Santana doesn't work there anymore? the dog eared warrior dime bag guitar he made never sold ?? did it?
@@gregorylyon1004 they wait 3 years so mike Shannon is building it
I got my hands on a 7 string Jackson abolene shark fin inlays I think he did a 27 inch scale on it it was NOT an impressive build I kept hurting my hand at the first fret
I don't know much about the guy he was a carpenter at first !!??? I think he is kind of overrated
@legesupra4275 Pablo Santana has unfortunately passed away. He passed in 2021, I think.
Either this is old or Branden Ellis has another sick custom coming haha. I was just watching his collection. Always wanted a Jackson but never wanted a cheaper one. Just recently got that camo concept series 7 string Rhodes and lovin it
That brandon ellis kelly is gonna be nasty.
Jackson. Making guitars your shop teacher would be fine with.
Did vintage Jacksons have a thinner headstock? I swear they look thinner and sharper on the original two Rhoads Vs, as well as on the SL2Vs they showed in the video, but I can't find anything online about it.
I had my Jackson charvel since 94. Emgs. Floyd rose. It's been to many hotel rooms
Request to Premier Guitar team to please do EVH gear Factory tour next... Thankyou !!
There’s already a nice factory tour of the evh factory here on TH-cam. We don’t need another one
They took 4 years to build my custom warrior and screwed it up. Wrong paint, MOP instead of abalone, wrong tuners, poorly wired pups. If I were to screw up an order that took 4 years, I would get FIRED not praised. They did a great job on the frets and neck, I will give them that.
I see not much has changed the last few years...😢
Does anyone know if Jackson factory is inside Fender Custom Shop? Both in Corona, CA.
Yep!
46:00 Yeah, i love KOA wood 2.
Great content ✌️🤘🎸🏴☠️🇦🇺
I have no idea, but why doesn't Jackson have more signature colors for the Dave Davidson Warrior 7? He has a red 27.5" scale that is no where to be found for purchase? There's even a yellow one too. But no... the snorefest black open grain and his classic mohogany.
PAT!!!
Id like to see some Jackson JTX custom shop examples
I play left handed like Jimi H but my inspiration is N Strauss of Alice's rockin band par excellance and she of course plays somewhat better but I love em both. God bless both and the rest of the AC band!🫠
Can you make a 7/8 size headless warrior with a trem and a sustainiac with a tiger finish
Alder also makes a top notch guitar for brutal deathmetal
Love my Jacksons, but only reverse headstocks for me
I'd love to see Slash play a Randy Rhodes guitar. He would shred it
I just love Jackson but at $7000 for a custom shop guitar this is gonna stay a dream. Man that's a lot of dosh, lol.
Ave you ever thought to dovetail the wings to the neckthrough?
@@AzathothsAlarmClock would still be glue in the dovetails. But would it would still resonate better.
those woods will never separate and all it matters is the NECK through now what I like to see is NO SCARF JOINT they used to do that back in the 80s
the way this is shot almost like for like to rob scallons schecter factory video is scary
Exsqueeze me? Baking powder?
🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼
How long do you have to wait to receive your custom ordered Jackson guitar?
Average of 2 years usually if it isn't refunded
😅
@@thesteamycreamofdualjabbar6486 Mine was ordered in September 2021
As long as it takes the Mexicans who make them to get citizenship
Some say 3-5years. I ordered a custom from another place back in summer 2021 too...or maybe 2020 🤔
No Jake E Lee!
I would get another custom select Jackson, but the THREE YEAR WAIT TIME is a no-go. shame. This has been an issue for years and years now.
too bad my last custom shop orders were snuffed up... cant recommend them anymore at all!!
Good luck getting an order that takes less than two years or doesn't get refunded unless your name is Scott Ian or Phil Collen.
Can anyone find my Jackson Rhoads Concorde Custom Shop? #RR
Boot to bonnet ? Is he from canada ?
Montana ... so close enough!
KOA not the campground
I'm broke but have a shop
16:03
ALL-DER not Al-Der WTF?
@@AzathothsAlarmClock😂😂😂
I've never heard anybody say alder the way he says it.
🇺🇸🎸🔥