Great idea!

I would love the soloist walnut or fuscia with a hipshot hardtail and reverse headstock with locking tuners

What is playing in the background around 11:30 minutes to 12:30 minutes? Sounds awesome,Hunter!!!👍

How can Jackson put out a product with Dave's name on it when his deal is with Gibson?

...was about to grab a $200 Dinky just for the fun of it, but then saw where it's made. I prefer Indonesia over China. Both from experience with the quality of each country, and also because of the geo-political and domestic BS that China is pulling...

Yes mate!!

100% on the Kelly I like how it's an explorer but just... Cooler? Idk I love 'em

It sucks that Mustaine’s with Gibson so he can’t have a signature with a fender owned company unless he leaves Gibson.

I have one KV1 Mustaine. Damn good. The only thing I didn't like was the pick ups, very low output. I had to replace them for EMG.

I've wanted a Mustaine King V with a Floyd for 30 years! They need to make them three Knobs. Two knobs sucks.

I can confirm your point, i've had both model, and i've put them on top of each other and they are identical . The reel difference is neck type( bolt on- neck thru)

String spacing should be the same as they both have an R3 nut if it has a Floyd. The necks have varied according to age, model and factory. It's funny how the hand interprets a neck and can mistake a minute difference in the carve for a different width and depth that actually measures the same. I have a Japanese Ibanez RG505 and an Indonesian Premium, both are specced as Wizard II necks, but I'd swear the Jap has a wider neck, even though I've taken measurements with digital calipers and the nut width and neck depth are within a couple of tenths of a millimetre. I've owned multiple Jackson/Charvel guitars and the only two that I'd say have necks that are identical in the hand are my 91 Soloist pro (Japan, Chushin Gakki factory) and USA SL2H.

why

@@NikosKatsikanis because I like them

@@tacosocks2576 ok

I always feel gaslit when I hear it said "lay ho" opposed to "Lie ho",

Oh, you mean the Dinky? I was really hoping for a slightly enlarged superstrat body shape with that classy Jackson USA neck profile. Instead we got a Dinky with some loud colours that can't legally carry the "Made in USA" tag because not enough of the guitar is sourced and worked in the US.

Lemme guess: the JS32 DKY and the Rhodes V?

I’ve given up on buying them. I’m in the process of building my own guitars. With 15 years of woodworking experience, I should be fine.

@@southernpanda33 yep. I love them, they’re great guitars. I love the necks, the light weight bodies, the fast fret boards. They’re amazing from my type of playing (shred) but I just want some variety. My local guitar center, has a new quilted purple Dinky and it’s breaks my heart that I can’t get one.

I feel that. I bought a Michael Kelly Les Paul style guitar for the quilted maple top because I can only get boring tops with Gibson thanks to being left handed. That and all the Jacksons that are so nice but I have to re-wire my brain to play them. Seems reasonable.

@@southernpanda33 some times I kick my myself for not sticking to learning right handed but my parents got my a leftie acoustic after my second lesson and that was a wrap. It’s a harsh world out there for us lefties but we’ve learned to adapt. Hopefully guitar companies see the light one day and see that if they offered more they would sell. They’d probably make even more money from the left handed community.

Sounds like Gibson lol

@@TylerJohnstonGuitarat least their QC says so, lol.

What do you think of the Vola guitars ?

@@vpovince1001 they look very intriguing

Yep, it's all about floyd rose... There are guys who prefer hardtails for real.

I got the rhoads too but for me the low B and E are super loose and rattle like crazy. I tried messing with the saddle and truss rod but still rattling

@@akatsiya​​sounds to me like an issue at the nut. If you can, try to file down the B and the E string a bit. There’s videos online and it’s not hard to do. Just go slowc and take your time. If it’s not that, maybe it’s the tuners. Hopefully you can figure it out soon!

It's called inflation

@@samwroblewski748 nope it’s called corporate greed. Ive worked in the financial industry for 15 years, currently in investments and securities cost basis. If you know what that is then you’d know that my understanding of inflation is integral to my own survival and greater than most because I see the hard numbers every day across all industries. The pro series has nearly doubled in price over the past few years and Chinese Jackson have gone from about $599 to this new $1500 price point with new branding since 2019 yet the worst case national(U.S) inflation value from 2019 to now is 25%. Weird that in that same time an Ibanez Genesis or Prestige are the same exact price since 2017/2018. (Hint. Below $1500 for MIJ) Try again or go ahead and be a sheep and buy this garbage.

@@samwroblewski748 also funny that I mentioned inflation in my initial comment yet you probably TLDR and skipped that but still wanted to put your inaccurate .02 in to defend a company that cares nothing about you. Jackson and these other companies will definitely continue to get away with this sort of thing just off of that behavior alone. Sad.

What about that is a bad thing? If a guitar plays and sounds great then idc where they’re made. I’ve had a Gibson USA Les Paul that I absolutely hated. I’ve also had a Japanese fender Stratocaster that didn’t play nearly as good as the Mexican fender I have now. And my squier jazzmaster I had a couple years ago is probably my favorite guitar I’ve ever owned and if I didn’t have to make rent during Covid, I would still have it today. And that was made in china. idk why people are focused on where its made so much. half the time they dont know what theyre talking about.

@@johnbrown8570​​⁠literally another person not reading but yet still a reply. I wrote what’s bad when I stated that there’s multiple personal examples of these guitars NOT having the qualities expected of a $1500 guitar. I’ve owned/have friends that owned and interacted with these things. I’m not saying a Chinese guitar can’t be decent(I have 2 EMG and Floyd 1000 equipped Charvel Desolations from the early 2010s that are made in China that are fantastic for the $500 they went for new but they are in no way equal to guitars that went for more money from that time like a Schecter Hellraiser series, which I own 3 as well. Now they’ve exceeded them in price) but I’m saying at the labor rates that we know that’s typical of these factories and the lack of detail that fender has had over the last few years across the board that $1500 is insane. You proved that point yourself when you stated a MIJ Fender was disappointing. You think on average(as in ignoring the rare well setup unicorn example) the cheaper to manufacture with lesser cost materials Chinese ones will be better? The fact that people use Gibson as a measuring stick of quality/justification says a lot about out the state of the guitar economy and validates further why I’m passionate about not accepting this from Fender. That’s how Gibson got away with being overpriced in the first place. People accepting low quality just to have that name on the headstock or using as that as a reason why they still overpaid for something else that was just a less bad. Both can still be overpriced. Either way, like I said in my other reply that looks like got deleted, get whatever you want. It’s your money. I’m just saying we are all voting with our wallet and we can’t complain that things are overpriced if we are lining up to overpay and accept inferior products for insane markups when there’s still better alternatives out there. I currently own over 40 guitars from various makes and countries of manufacture. From the cheap Charvels I mentioned all the way up to my Ibanez J Custom and USA PRS Custom 24 10 Top. I’m not saying cheaply made guitars don’t have a place. They do, just like expensive guitars do. I have a few and I own enough guitars and have owned many more over the years to say that I’m not completely talking smack for no reason. Over paying for them at all levels is just unwise.

Yeah I saw the price and laughed. Thought it was 1099 but looked close and saw 1500 … the hell

But stainless steel frets!

@@stephenkomorowski6359even 1099 is overpriced. People paying that price was what gave them the idea to charge $1500+.

try pro audio star, used, they are not used...shhhh

big frets big checks baby

And, 'Super'.....

Sounds fun

i prefer jackson, however i have one esp. esp is the other worthy brand.

Came looking for this comment, Dinky and Soloist have the same body shape and size. Difference is just bolt on vs neck-thru

I also came to make this statement.

Yup, I was expecting someone to have already commented this

No they are not they are 7/8 size

@@sethhereford7332dinky is 7/8 size thats why its called a dinky

As a kid I had a 1984 Roads neckthru, sadly I had a nonplayer play it so I could drum and the strap popped off the front button and it swong down and snapped off the head.... thing played its self, it always twists my gut to think I traded it to get a replacement.... had I known the that it was fixable it was worlds better than the bolt on kingV I downgraded to. I never quit dreaming about having a top tier Jackson either.

As far as I know, the original is made by schaller in germany.

@@Rubenios in 2020 they changed manufacturers. There is a post about it on their website. The parts/packaging no longer say mad in Germany or where they are from. I had asked when the r10 was going to be back in stock and they confirmed they are working with a new manufacturer with all new tooling. They have better nut block fitment now, the base plates are now bent like the 1k/vintage (they were cast and machined for th Schaller,) and the cnc saddles are really nice.

no it is not it is 7/8 size

Yep. Both 7/8 size of a strat. Can easily be confirmed if you hold them up next to each other or a soloist next to a strat. The Jackson molded hard shell is also for the Dinky/Strat and both fit snuggly in it because they are the same size.