1980's Era USA Jacksons:

As far as I knew the RR1's are USA made but the one I had was not high grade wood in the body. It had a SD JB set.
Original Floyd Rose.
 
ibmorjamn said:
As far as I knew the RR1's are USA made but the one I had was not high grade wood in the body. It had a SD JB set.
Original Floyd Rose.
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There are a lot of variations in the Jackson line and some of them - labeled as a USA model - were actually imports that were declared "mislabeled. "
 
ibmorjamn said:
Wow , not good!
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I changed out the cabinets on an entire lot of Hand-Wired 1964 Princeton Reverb Amps to get rid of a 'Made In China' tag.

Supposedly, this only reflected where the wood cabinets were made and not where the amplifier itself was made, but regardless, ALL of the internals/electronics were Chinese made.

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I do wish the Jackson logo on the headstock was not as large as it is.

If I could find a smaller water slide decal, I’d be seriously tempted to replace the logo on my Jackson with something smaller.
 
I, and you all obviously, remember Jackson on top of the world in the mid '80s. They were so popular I remember a guitar magazine with Jeff Beck on the cover with one. This gave serious testament to how big they were because it would take a landslide for Beck to budge like that.
 
Sapient said:
I, and you all obviously, remember Jackson on top of the world in the mid '80s. They were so popular I remember a guitar magazine with Jeff Beck on the cover with one. This gave serious testament to how big they were because it would take a landslide for Beck to budge like that.
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I still work on a lot of USA Jacksons and they really are fantastic instruments.
 
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