But this is no ordinary guitar my friends. Browsing the marketplace on my phone I had to look twice to double check what I thought I was seeing.
What I thought I saw was a Jackson 1991 Limited Archtop Soloist. A one of 200 very rare cousin to my Charvel 750XL. This was the holy grail of these guitars and one I never thought I would even see, let alone own.
Featuring Brazilian rosewood for the fretboard, with sharkfin inlays with a split of abalone and mother of pearl and a bound neck and body and gold hardware this was the most espensive Jackson of it's day.
I began to talk with the seller and after a few days, which I was sure someone else was trying to snipe me!, we struck a deal and the guitar was on it's way. He was the first owner so he says and I can't beieve he let this one go.
So here we have the two together, the 750XL in Cherry Sunburst I bought in '93, and the 91 LTD in Tobacco Burst I got last month.
I pulled the LTD apart for all the usual work and found it a new home in a Soloist case I bought a long time ago for a guitar that doesn't need it.
I was going to replace the trem but I decided to keep it original so I put it all back together.
So I can at least try it out with the band I'm settig it up in E flat, the 750 is in E and both guitars feature a Gibson scale length. The Reflex pickups seem pretty cool and they are at least partly active as it needed a new battery to make noise. Inside the cavity there is little box with resin as part of the system. There's a lot of wires and I'm leaving them all alone.
Reflex pickups were used on the top guitars from Japan back then. I did once have a regular Jackson Archtop Soloist, one of the few guitars I've sold, which I would have kept today, and it had Reflex pickups too.
Either way, I'll keep this one all original and played or not, she's staying in my collection.
Those two Ibanez + 2 Firebirds, a strat, a Les Paul, 2 Flying Vs
