Need some Advice on a Concorde build

[camdenlp]

Looks good. Can't wait to see it done. Just remember use the NOS brass bridge it's the exact bridge randy used

Thanks. The parts aren't cheap. I got tuners that are close but not exact. The actual ones might as well not exist. Very hard to find

[randy will never die]

I will post something at 1 00 that will help you it's the specs of the 2008 concord relic

[randy will never die]

here from the 2008 relic

Mike Shannon & Chip Ellis Jackson USA Custom Shop Randy Rhoads Concorde Relic Tribute Electric Guitar

This is the Mike Shannon & Chip Ellis Jackson USA Custom Shop Randy Rhoads Concorde Relic Tribute Electric Guitar. Finally It Has Arrived!!! There are Only 60 World Wide!!! I got 2 of them and sold the first one already. Someone please buy this before I keep it for myself. There will be no more of these made.

That is right, 60 world wide. 30 of them are going to Europe and 30 are staying here in the states. This guitar is probably one of the most iconic guitars ever made. The Jackson Concorde was built by Mike Shannon who worked as a builder at Charvel for Grover Jackson. The Concorde was the first guitar to bare the Jackson name. And it was specifically built for Randy Rhoads. Grover thought that the design was so radical that he didn't want to put the Charvel name on it. So that was how Jackson Guitars were born. The Rhoads family gave Mike Shannon and Chip Ellis (Who relic'd this guitar and the EVH Frankenstein guitars) access to Randy's guitar. Mike and Chip painstakingly rebuilt Randy's guitar down to every nick and scratch. It even has the black non-reflective tape on the back of the guitar that Sharron Osbourne made Randy put on the guitar on the Diary of a Madman tour so that when the lights were dimmed before the show started Randy would flip his guitar up so that it would not reflect any light to keep the stage totally dark or feel the wrath of Sharron. Retail pricing is based on Randy’s birthday, which is December 6, 1956. Retail is set at $12,619.56.

This guitar comes with all the case candy including signed COA by Delores Rhoads, Mike Shannon, & Chip Ellis, pics, and other goodies.


Mike Shannon & Chip Ellis Jackson USA Custom Shop Randy Rhoads Concorde Relic Tribute Electric Guitar Specs:


Model Name: USA Custom Shop
Body Style: Concorde Randy Rhoads
Series: Randy Rhoads Relic Concorde
Color: White w/Black Pinstripes with Black Purple Pearl Cap
Body: 4 Piece Big Leaf Maple

Neck: Neck-Thru-Body Quartersawn Maple & Bound Fingerboard & Frets, Bone Nut
Neck Dimensions: 3rd Fret: .830”, 12th Fret: .950” Round Neck
Tuning Machines:: Crown Head Tuners
Fingerboard: Ebony with Compound 12” to 16” Radius
No. of Frets: 22 Jumbo Frets

Bridge Pickup: Seymour Duncan SH4 Humbucking Pickup
Neck Pickup: Seymour Duncan Jazz Humbucking Pickup
Inlays: Mother of Pearl Block Inlays, Full Size Painted Logo Inlay and White Binding
Controls: 2 Volume (Neck & Bridge), 2 Tone (Neck & Bridge)
Bridge: NOS (New Old Stock) Brass Bridge

Pickup Switching: 3 Position Toggle
Hardware: Gold, Ebony Engraved Truss Rod Cover, Schaller Chrome Strap Locks
Strings: NPS, Gauges: .010-.052
Case: Vintage Anvil Randy Rhoads Case
Pickguard: None

Scale Length: 25.5” (648mm)
Width at Nut: 1.7”, Butt - 2.187
Electronics: CTS® Pots and Switchcraft® Switches
Unique Features: Compound (12” to 16”) Fingerboard Radius, Relic'd by Chip Ellis


http://www.cmcguitars.com/Jackson-Custo ... ic-rr1.htm

to help camdenlp and others

[BowTie29]

Interesting it had Jumbo cause Randy said in an interview the first thing he did with a guitar was put really small frets in

[sytharnia]

randy's didn't have a jb in the bridge i'm 99% sure......he said it was a duncan distortion which has a ceramic magnet so will sound very different to the jb

[Stiltzkin]

yup, a Distortion it was

[camdenlp]

Synth and stiltz, you guys are right, I'm pretty sure. Don't know why the Jackson folks went with a JB in the relic?

[Stiltzkin]

I'm pretty sure. Don't know why the Jackson folks went with a JB in the relic?

Jackson puts the JB in almost all their guitars, so my guess is that they struck
a pretty nice deal with the folks at Seymour Duncan

[sytharnia]

I'm pretty sure. Don't know why the Jackson folks went with a JB in the relic?

Jackson puts the JB in almost all their guitars, so my guess is that they struck
a pretty nice deal with the folks at Seymour Duncan

but the distortion is a duncan to ....it possibly has something to do with people wanting alnico magnets with there duncans....i'm picking randy went for the distortion because of the super D he had in the polka because there ceramic to

[camdenlp]

I have a second set of the Super '74 pickups from the RR Les Paul custom I might try in it. It has Alnico 3 mags and I like the sound of them in the LP. I don't know yet. Haven't ruled out the Dist. or the JB...but I have some time to make up my mind.

[Stiltzkin]

that's another thing. The Super '74s uses Alnico3 magnets instead
of the short Alnico5 magnets used in the original T-tops.
So, it's almost like the Jackson/Duncan thing. Gibson got a good price
on a batch of Alnico3 magnets but on the other hand, Gibson
was never consistent with their pickups back in the day

[camdenlp]

Yeah, I don't know what that's all about. Maybe they were looking to match output? These measure 7.1 k and 7.2 k

[randy will never die]

randy's didn't have a jb in the bridge i'm 99% sure......he said it was a duncan distortion which has a ceramic magnet so will sound very different to the jb

Ok Duncan distortion in the bridge what in the neck

[sytharnia]

randy's didn't have a jb in the bridge i'm 99% sure......he said it was a duncan distortion which has a ceramic magnet so will sound very different to the jb

Ok Duncan distortion in the bridge what in the neck

I think it was the jazz

[randy will never die]

Well looking back I am sure miss Rhoads was extremely careful

I don't think she let the folks at Jackson take the pickups out or take the covering to the volume and tone pots cover off