If we learned anything from the explosion in guitar design in the 1980s it was that big frets on a flatter radius ’board equals happy days for choke-free string bending. This guitar is just as happy keeping it clean. Don’t typecast the DK2 as a miffed rock beast. There’s less muddiness in the neck position than we expected and there’s a sweet glassiness to the single coil settings. The ash body seems to bring a lightness to the tone in all positions. Dial in some gain and you’re in classic rock mode for big riffs and singing sustain. The JB in full-on mode has that classic blend of warmth and sparkle on a clean setting. There’s a lot of tonal variety on offer here.
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Lastly, position 5 has the neck ’59 on full power. Position 3 voices the inner coils of both the JB and ’59 position 4, the neck’s inner coil only. The DK2’s five-way pickup switch offers in position 1, the bridge JB ’bucker Position 2 splits the JB leaving only its inner coil in action. The Dinky DK2’s scale length makes the strings sing in every position. That’s fine on the DK2 where the 648mm (25.5-inch) scale maintains some snap in the bottom strings. The DK2 comes fitted with 0.009-0.042 gauge strings. Flip the guitar over and you’ll find the neck is secured to the body with three bolts with some sculpting at the heel to provide great upper fret access. The neck is further strengthened by internal graphite rods. Some say it promotes neck stiffness, others that it’s more cost effective for manufacturers.
This construction method has been used on metal guitars for decades. The headstock bit joins the main part of the neck at the third fret. For the uninitiated, this means the neck is actually two-piece. The neck is described by Jackson as a one-piece but it features a scarf joint.
Moving along, the 648mm (25.5-inch) scale DK2 features a super slim bolt-on maple neck topped with an ebony ’board with 24 jumbo frets and a 305mm to 406mm (12-16-inch) compound radius. The good news is, this setup still offers the best combo of power, clarity and tone in our opinion so we’ll greet it as an old friend. Installing a TB-4 JB Trembucker in the bridge position and a SH-1N ’59 at the neck has become a rock guitar cliché. No one at Jackson lost any sleep over the choice of pickups here.
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