Like US-made Jacksons? Like slime green? Franklin Guitar Works has a deal on the Jackson American Series Soloist SL3, Ebony Fingerboard, Satin Slime Green (RP)
https://reverb.com/item/86524858-...e-green-rp- Alder body
- Through-body three-piece maple neck with graphite reinforcement
- 12"-16" compound radius rolled ebony fingerboard with 24 jumbo frets and inverse mother of pearl sharkfin inlays
- Seymour Duncan® JB™ TB-4 bridge pickup, Seymour Duncan Custom Flat Strat® SSL-6 RWRP Single-Coil middle pickup and Seymour Duncan Custom Flat Strat® SSL-6 Single-Coil neck pickup
- Five-way blade pickup switch, single volume control and single tone control
- Floyd Rose® 1500 Series double-locking tremolo bridge system
- Luminlay® side dots
- Heel-mount truss rod adjustment wheel
- Dunlop® dual-locking strap buttons
- Gotoh® MG-T locking tuners
- Available in Gloss Black, Platinum Pearl, Riviera Blue or Satin Slime Green with color matched pointed headstocks and black hardware
- Jackson Foam-Core case included
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I literally just picked up a 355 semihollow with custom buckers for $1170, and that is coming with a nice hard case (another crazy thing this Jackson doesn't include, and many others in this range do as well), and it is from Sweetwater so it comes with the free 2 year warranty and most importantly a BAG OF CANDY
Side note, many of the reviews I read were from people that paid between $2,000 and the MSRP of $2300 plus tax... THAT is crazy to me. That is getting into custom shop territory for a good deal on a used guitar, which I would choose every day and twice on Sunday. And they didn't even get an OHSC!
Yeah totally agree, to each their own. And of course I get that a 355 isn't a super strat, but my point was that even just over the last few years (ESPECIALLY the last few years because of the plague shortage timeframe inflation on guitars specificall), the quality, materials, hardware, electronics, etc. you can get for your money has increased significantly. Some have been good at it a long time. As far as the frets, I agree, pros and cons to each for a player that are super minor and pretty much irrelevant imho, it is more of the maintenance aspect that I appreciate... the SS are harder to nick/damage, and may never need a refret/full level/recrown, and are much faster/easier to polish to make those strings slide like glass on bends. OTOH nickel is cheaper, and if you do need to do any work on them, they are WAY easier to deal with.
I just brought up the frets because guitars popular for metal, etc. seem to commonly have SS frets in this price range by popular demand, it is only the major manufacturers (like Fender/FMIC) that seem to be slower to adopt the option, but that seems to be changing, for example the Strat Ultra Lux, and it's MSRP is less than the Jackson, so maybe it isn't just a cost thing? The Jackson reddit seems to agree that this American Soloist not having SS in this price range is weird and unexpected, but not a show stopper.
E.G the PRS imports are pretty amazing value and have fantastic QA, but that isn't news. Epiphone OTOH has changed things up dramatically in the last few years imho... for example I grabbed a Gibson USA Adam Jones standard not too long after they came out, and it is a sweet guitar, definitely something I can see being a lifetime guitar. That said, QA wasn't great, and I had some work to do to fix some things, some frets to level out and polish, there were a few defects in the finish, etc. Not a huge deal and expected for Gibson USA, and even a bit with customs. But for the last year or two, the Epi Inspired by Gibson releases have awesome, and while they are sometimes doubling in cost vs. the pure Epi version, imho you are getting 4 times the value (depending on what you care about).
I just picked up an unused Epi IGC AJ LP Custom (non art) for $1200 that included the Schaller M6 tuners that are like $100 by themselves. The QA seems to have been better (not sure since I wasn't the first owner), but getting a real custom bucker and SD SH6 vs much lower cost pickups on the LP standard, ebony with real MOP, and so many more of the LPC features... for that money imho is a great value. If it was a nitro finish instead of poly, I think I would keep it and sell the Gibson USA... but for some reason for me the nitro is magical, dunno why but I love it and it makes a huge difference every time I pick one up. I would love to have the Gibon Custom Shop version of this, but can't justify dropping $10k plus for it.