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Hi,
Anybody used Jackson surfcaster model?
Just saw it in their catalogue. Very interesting!
Kirill
Hmmm...looks like a Jaguar/Jazzmaster meets a mosrite with some
Danelectro features. To bad the SC4 is a hard tail.
Trem would be very usefull when doing surf.
Jerry S.
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Subject: [SurfGuitar101] Jackson surfcaster
Hi,
Anybody used Jackson surfcaster model?
Just saw it in their catalogue. Very interesting!
Kirill
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I used to run a web site, Surfcastercentral.com. I was WAY into them
and owned 5 or 6 over the years. There was a guy at Jackson who gave me
alot of history on them. They are great playing guitars. A very flat
neck (typical Jackson style), big frets, and the semi-hollow body has a
nice tone to it. The older ones are becoming quite collectable. You can
get a really good surf sound from the lipstick pickup but the humbucker
has to go. The older ones had 2 lipstick pickups and some even had a
Wilkensen trem. I had an newer ivory one (with a maple neck!) and put
a TVJones TV-Tron (a Gretsch Filtertron clone-actually better than the
originals. Ask Brian Setzer.) pickup in place of the humbucker and MAN!
What a sound! Clean with a little bit of bite. Dig in hard that pickup
would scream. Too bad it didn't have a trem.
I've even had a few Surfcaster Basses. It sounded really thin, though.
Like the Danelectro basses, but with a better neck.
They have since been discontinued.
Phil
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> Hi,
>
> Anybody used Jackson surfcaster model?
> Just saw it in their catalogue. Very interesting!
>
> Kirill
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I was in love with the design of the Surfcaster when it came out. I played a few
of them and I thought they were just awful. Maybe they needed to be set up
better. Really, it is much more of a take off on a Rickenbacker concept than
anything to do with a surf guitar. Great design though...
ferenc wrote:
> Hmmm...looks like a Jaguar/Jazzmaster meets a mosrite with some
> Danelectro features. To bad the SC4 is a hard tail.
> Trem would be very usefull when doing surf.
>
>
>
>
> Jerry S.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: vrijdag 17 oktober 2003 9:28
> To:
> Subject: [SurfGuitar101] Jackson surfcaster
>
>
> Hi,
>
> Anybody used Jackson surfcaster model?
> Just saw it in their catalogue. Very interesting!
>
> Kirill
>
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> Anybody used Jackson surfcaster model?
There's a review here:
This is the 1 lipstick, 1 humbucker version. There's also a 3 lipstick version.
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> Anybody used Jackson surfcaster model?
There's a review here:
This is the 1 lipstick, 1 humbucker version. There's also a 3 lipstick version.
--
Malcolm <<-- not a signature
"They should know they're the Grateful Dead now." -- Phil
"It's never too late to be up-to-date" -- Dan Hicks
"My clock loses time like there's no tomorrow" -- Malcolm
