Jackson X Series Soloist SLX DX LRL Gloss Black
Product information "Jackson X Series Soloist SLX DX LRL Gloss Black"
With the SLX DX Gloss Black from the X Series, Jackson offers a cool, speedy metal axe in a stylish gloss black finish. The solid poplar body is finished in bright Gold Bullion, and the Maple/Indian Laurel neck is neck-through-body. All hardware, including the Floyd Rose tremolo, is black - a set of Duncan Designed pickups provides serious tone.
- Body Material: Poplar
- Body Shape: Modern Strat
- Body finish: High Gloss Polyurethane
- Bridge / Tremolo: Floyd Rose Special
- Bridge Pickup: Duncan Designed HB-103 B
- Color/ Finish: Gloss Black
- Colour: Black
- Controls: 1x volume, 1x tone
- Country of Origin: Indonesia
- Finish: Gloss Polyurethane
- Fretboard: Indian Laurel
- Fretboard Inlays: Pearloid Sharkfin
- Fretboard radius: 12" - 16" Compound
- Fret material: Nickel silver
- Frets: 24
- Fret size: Jumbo
- Hardware: Black
- Neck: Maple graphite reinforced
- Neck Pickup: Duncan Designed™ HB-103N
- Neck Profile: Speed Neck
- Neck construction: Neck thru
- Neck finish: Gloss Polyurethane
- 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: 3-way switch
- 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 Sealed Die-Cast
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.