Jackson American Series Virtuoso EB Rocket Red
Product information "Jackson American Series Virtuoso EB Rocket Red"
The Virtuoso VT is a sensible addition to the Jackson American series - a Made in USA shredder axe with the best features. The maple/ebony neck is bolted to the alder body, the fingerboard is dressed in a comfortable compound radius. A Floyd Rose 1500 ensures detune-free tremolo operation, while Jackson has opted for the tried and tested Seymour Duncan SH-1N/SH-4 combination for the pickups. In a cool Rocket Red finish with matching headstock.
- Body Material: Alder
- Body Shape: Modern Strat
- Body finish: High Gloss
- Bridge / Tremolo: Floyd Rose 1500
- Bridge Pickup: Seymour Duncan TB-4
- Color/ Finish: Rocket Red
- Colour: Red
- Controls: 1x volume, 1x tone
- Country of Origin: USA
- Finish: Gloss Polyurethane
- Fretboard: Streaked Ebony
- Fretboard Inlays: Offset/Reverse Dots
- Fretboard radius: 12"-16" Compound Radius
- Fret material: Nickel silver
- Frets: 24
- Fret size: Jumbo
- Hardware: Black
- Includes: Softcase
- Neck: 5 pc. Roasted Maple/Maple graphite reinforced
- Neck Pickup: Seymour Duncan SH-1N
- Neck Profile: Speed Neck
- Neck construction: Bolt on neck
- Neck finish: Hand-Rubbed Satin Urethane
- Nut Width: 1.6875" (42.86 mm)
- Nut material: Floyd Rose Locking
- Pickup Configuration: H-H (2x Humbucker)
- Pickup Cover: Open Black
- Pickup Selector Switch: 5-way switch
- Pickup type: passive
- Pot Caps: Dome Speed Black
- Scale Length: 25,5" (648 mm)
- Strings: 6 string
- Strings thickness ex factory: .009 - .042
- Technology: Solid Body
- Translation: 1:18
- Tuning Machines: Gotoh MG-T Locking
Jackson Guitars arose from Grover Jackson's takeover of the well-known company Charvel's Guitar Repair in 1978. The collaboration with then Ozzy Osbourne guitarist Randy Rhoads in 1980 resulted in the Rhoads body shape still available today and also marked the start of Jackson Guitars. The timing was perfect: heavy metal enjoyed a heyday in the 1980s and the trend (sparked by Eddie Van Halen) was for so-called super- or powerstrats. These are guitars that are visually more or less based on the classic ST shape but fitted with more modern and stylistically appropriate components like humbuckers or Floyd Rose tremolos. Jackson soon earned a reputation as a forge of first-class, USA-built high-end custom instruments, seen in the hands of many well-known guitarists of the era. With the musical changes of the 1990s, Jackson Guitars began opening factories in the Far East to offer their instruments in more affordable price ranges. Since 2002 both Jackson and Charvel have been part of the Fender Musical Instruments Corporation.