1989 Jackson Bass USA Custom Shop Bass

This is a very rare early production made in the USA Custom Shop Neck-Thru Body 4 string Bass w/their cool Blue Snakeskin finish over a P Bass style body & neck. It was obviously special ordered when new & hardly used over the last 36 years. Its finish is stunning & so beautiful w/that neck-thru construction. There are a set of powerful Jackson P-J pickups w/a dark ebony unbound fingerboard w/their famous Shark Tooth inlays. So many Jacksons were made overseas & the pure USA made basses are scarce. This is a lovely example in near mint shape overall & comes in a nice hard case.

Early history from Jackson:

The “Golden Era” of Jackson Guitars when they were at the height of their influence on rock and metal music is when they operated out of the San Dimas, California workshop. There were a few prototypes and pre-serialized guitars built, but the first Jackson serial number J0001 appeared in 1983 as did the first Randy Rhoads serial number RR0001. Production Jackson Bolt-On neck guitars will have a serial number that begins with 00 where a Custom Shop Bolt-On will just have the number with no 0’s in the front of the serial number. Ontario, California factory neck-thru production guitars will gave a serial number beginning with “UO” where Ontario Custom Shop Jackson guitars have serial numbers that start with a “J”. There are many people online claiming they have a “Custom Shop” Jackson that is in reality just a normal production model “USA Select” guitar. This is usually because the owner is not aware that special graphics could be ordered on production guitars or that different pickups were added later in its life, giving the guitar an appearance of being different from a “regular” USA production guitar.