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This guitar is the epitome of bang for your buck, it's a workhorse whether you're just a hobbyist like myself or a gigging musician this thing delivers. The gloss candy blue color pops on this thing, no dreary finishes here. All black hardware is a fitting look with it. It's a maple neck through basswood body loaded with EMG's and a tune-o-matic style bridge with string through body. (P.S. usually neck through guitars are reserved for higher end instruments which is what drew me to this guitar in the first place) Other than that build feature there's nothing super fancy just your standard fare but whats here works very well. The bound fretboard is quite nice, very smooth rosewood and nicely finished frets coupled with a compound radius is perfect whether you're a strummer or shredder. The neck shape is super fast, I liken it to an Ibanez Wizard neck without being quite as flat and very nice access to the upper frets (it being a set through neck) Sustain is great because of this also. If you're checking this thing out I assume you're familiar with EMG's already, powerful active pickups great for metal or any related genre. The only cons I could mention are personal preferences which are easily amendable, the cheap plastic nut, non locking tuning machines, and the neck having a matching gloss finish with the body. (I prefer satin necks for this style of guitar) All in all I enjoy playing this thing very much it's super comfortable and a great metal machine. I've not had any issues with it so i can't comment on Jackson's customer support but not having any problems is a good thing. Good value for your dollar here and it's a Jackson so the names got plenty of credit in the metal community something like 30+ years. Anyway thanks for reading if you did I'm going to go and jam now! \m/ \m/

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Great guitar for such an affordable price. Great feel and tone! Distortion screams out the active EMG's! Tuners could've been upgraded but all in all an amazing guitar.

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