Jackson Guitars

Jackson

Just a layout I will finish later tonight :)

History

The History of Jackson is not a long 1 and begins in Glendor California in the mid 70's with two men; Grover Jackson and Wayne Charvel. They ran a small shop called Charvel Guitar Repair. Through this shop Grover and Wayne made custom guitars known as Charvel. It was only when Randy Rhodes designed the Rhodes V that Grover descided to put his name on the guitar and start the Jackson Guitar company, he believed this model was too shocking to be part of the Charvel line of guitars. It was at this time around 1978 that Charvel lost interest and sold the name to Jackson. During the early 80's jackson merged with a company called IMC (international music corporation) and changed location. It was during this time that Jackson made guitars that largely resembled the Gibson Explorer ( Still have 1 version know as the Kelly) Jackson was sued successfully and was urged to change their guitar design. They designed the new guitars after older Charvel models but sleaker. Jackson guitars were made more for a hard rock and metal base keeping to its original customer base who were Rhodes fans. Today Jackson makes metal guitars which was well known for having fast necks and sleak designs. In 2002 Jackson Guitars was purchased by Fender and the Charvel production moved to Fender. Jackson continues to work under Fender today.

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Links

www.jacksonguitars.com