Jackson JS Series Surfcaster JS22 HT Metallic Red
Product information "Jackson JS Series Surfcaster JS22 HT Metallic Red"
With Jackson bringing one of its iconic ’90s body designs back from the vault, there are now entry-level models for budget-conscious players. The JS-22HT features a lightweight poplar body with a bolt-on maple/amaranth neck, Jackson hardtail bridge, sealed tuning machines and a set of Jackson high-output humbuckers. In Metallic Red finish.
- Body Material: Poplar
- Body Shape: Offset
- Body finish: Gloss Polyurethane
- Bridge / Tremolo: Jackson Hardtail
- Bridge Pickup: Jackson® High Output Humbucker
- Color/ Finish: Metallic Red
- Colour: Red
- Controls: 1x volume, 1x tone
- Country of Origin: China
- Finish: Gloss Polyurethane
- Fretboard: Amaranth
- Fretboard Inlays: White Dot
- Fretboard radius: 12"-16" Compound Radius
- Fret material: Nickel silver
- Frets: 22
- Fret size: Jumbo
- Hardware: Black
- Neck: Maple
- Neck Pickup: Jackson® High Output Humbucker
- Neck construction: Bolt on neck
- Neck finish: Satin Urethane
- Nut Width: 1.6875" (42.86 mm)
- Nut material: Plastic
- Pickup Configuration: H-H (2x Humbucker)
- Pickup Cover: Open Black
- Pickup Selector Switch: 3-Way Bladeswitch
- Pickup type: passive
- Pot Caps: Dome Speed Black
- Scale: 25" (635 - 659 mm)
- Scale Length: 25,5" (648 mm)
- Strings: 6 string
- Strings thickness ex factory: .009 - .042
- Technology: Solid Body
- Translation: 1:16
- Tuning Machines: Jackson Die-Cast 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.