Jackson JS Series Dinky JS22 - Natural Oil with Amaranth Fingerboard

This guitar is perfect for my small size (90 lbs female, size 5 shoe and ring) has a beautiful solid body wood with a resonance so beautiful I can make harmonics on almost every fret. Smooth, rounded frets, easy to intonate. 24 frets for a short scale that all maintain pitch accuracy, two double humbucker pickups allow for sweet sound; machine heads are a bit crappy and fender style bridge allows for relative detuning, but overall, thankful that a "my size" high quality guitar exists and is comparable to the Carvin, Godin, Fernandez. Perfect if you like fingerpicking on a thick neck and hammering for better resonance. Natural wood body means the wood quality is there, rather than hidden under imperfections filled with bondo and/or glued under paint. Every smaller sized human should buy this guitar. Definitely recommend . One flaw: the guitar came with wiring imperfections I had to correct by opening up the back and using an ice pick to free some incorrectly placed wiring; one wire was tangled in another, both exposed. There was no sound until this was corrected.

There's nothing to dislike about this guitar. I got the natural wood model. It sounds like my Ibanez which was 3 times as much. The neck is pure butter and feels great. Not to thick and not too thin body that fits perfectly. The pickups sound like damarzio jazz basses. If your on a budget but want a decent guitar buy this model. Forget other budget guitars they don't stack up.

I have nicer guitars, but loved the natural wood body and the shape of this Jackson. If you want to shred, this guitar rocks! But if you want to play a variety of music on a budget, get a Squier Stratocaster first, then a Squier Telecaster, and then this Jackson. I've enjoyed playing a new style of music along with my usual blues and rock, but I would never pick this over a strat or tele. That said, this guitar is GORGEOUS and a high-quality build for the price. Highly recommend it - I get compliments all the time on the natural wood. My only complaint is that the body was three pieces of wood glued together, so there is a small noticeable difference in the different pieces, but that's nitpicking for a guitar in this price range with quality sound.

The media could not be loaded. I have been in and out of guitar playing for 20 years. Never learned how to play just attempted to. Some how with this guitar everything seems and feels more fluid. It is very light comparing to my old esp ec-50.Cons. Factory strings are very light Mabe a 8-40? I was getting a lot Of string buzz until I replaced them with 10-46. You mis replace the factory strings. They suck. Pickups sound heavy, warm and deep. Rear pickup sounds sharp like a band without bass, center position and front pickup sounds fat and warm like a band with bass. Perfect guitar. Get it if you are new to metal or a metal head who jumps in and out or a metal guy full time.

Frets extremely sharpe edges need sanding , in my opinion that’s on the Company to send out a Quality product that consumer doesn’t instantly become a craftsman / repair center .......HELLO ! ?

My pandemic project has been learning two-handed tapping, Stanley Jordan style jazz guitar. I had been using a cheap strat clone, but wanted 24 frets and a flatter neck. Somehow I came across this on Amazon and figured I'd send it back if I didn't like it. Suffice it to say, I am very impressed. The neck and frets were perfect out of the box. All I did was adjust the string height to my taste and it plays great. For me, the neck alone is worth $200. I am going to change the pickups and wiring, but only because I enjoy messing around with inexpensive guitars, but for most folks, even non-metal players, the stock pups should be fine. So either as a mod platform, or as is, this is a great deal, even if you aren't a shredder. I may even buy a second, dye it some funky color and stick some fishman fluence pups in just for fun.

A ton of guitar for $200! Plays better than my Epiphone which cost 3 times as much and sounds nearly as good. Sounds best with high gain, great metal guitar. I will likely upgrade the pickups at some point but this guitar is a fantastic value.

Great guitar sounds great and good for beginners im young and the frets arnt too big so great fit for teens!