Jackson PRO Kelly Jeff Loomis Signature Black Ash
Product information "Jackson PRO Kelly Jeff Loomis Signature Black Ash"
The new workhorse from Jeff Loomis: the KE Jeff Loomis BLK ASH, based on the good old Kelly, is a real highlight both visually and in terms of its features. The basswood body has a sandblasted ash top, which creates a beautiful contrast in combination with the black finish. When it comes to electronics, Jackson relies on Jeff Loomis' signature Seymour Duncan aggregrate from the Blackouts series. Of course, the classic Floyd Rose tremolo is also included.
- Body Material: Basswood
- Body Shape: Heavy
- Bridge / Tremolo: Floyd Rose 1500
- Bridge Pickup: Seymour Duncan® Jeff Loomis Signature Blackouts®
- Color/ Finish: Black
- Colour: Black
- Controls: 1x volume
- Country of Origin: South Korea
- Custom shop: no
- Fretboard: Ebony
- Fretboard Inlays: Pearloid Sharkfin
- Fretboard radius: 12" - 16" Compound
- Frets: 24
- Hardware: Black
- Neck: Maple graphite reinforced
- Neck Pickup: Seymour Duncan® Jeff Loomis Signature Blackouts®
- Neck construction: Neck thru
- Pickup Configuration: H-H (2x Humbucker)
- Pickup Selector Switch: 3 way toggle
- Pickup type: active
- Scale: 25" (635 - 659 mm)
- Scale Length: 25,5" (648 mm)
- Signature Model: yes
- Strings: 6 string
- Strings thickness ex factory: .010 - .049
- Technology: Solid Body
- Top: sandblasted ash
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.
