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Thanks, you can thank my guitar tech for that. I had him take off all the hardware and pretty much buff out any dull areas and surface scratches, and he did an amazing job! Even cleaning the hardware and polishing the frets turned out a lot better than I expected.

Awesome pic, yea I know Fade to Black on Cliff 'em All, and To Live Is To Die into Master on Seattle is what made me fall in love with it.

Thanks, yea I know it's in great condition for it's age. It didn't have any dings on it which made me happy, though there are still some light surface marks after my tech buffed it out, but overall I'm pretty happy with it.  Even the hardware is still original, the only thing I had to swap out was one of the pots, and the strap locks. The pickups show the most wear, and the input jack has lost all it's luster and is pretty dulled out, along with the string-thru hardware on the back, but still looks cool lol.

Yea I ordered the strap through Kirk's strap website. It's a custom order so it wasn't cheap lol. Era was the name of the person who made it, and she lives in Italy. Not 100% sure if she made Kirk's or not, but I assume so.

If I ever sell, you'll be on the list haha. 

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Thanks, yea I know it's in great condition for it's age. It didn't have any dings on it which made me happy, though there are still some light surface marks after my tech buffed it out, but overall I'm pretty happy with it.  Even the hardware is still original, the only thing I had to swap out was one of the pots, and the strap locks. The pickups show the most wear, and the input jack has lost all it's luster and is pretty dulled out, along with the string-thru hardware on the back, but still looks cool lol.

Yea I ordered the strap through Kirk's strap website. It's a custom order so it wasn't cheap lol. Era was the name of the person who made it, and she lives in Italy. Not 100% sure if she made Kirk's or not, but I assume so.

If I ever sell, you'll be on the list haha. 

Thanks for the reply mate, that is bloody awesome!! Congrats again and enjoy.

Thanks man, yea I was surprised it still had the original case as well, and glad they didn't get rid of it over the years. It's not in the greatest shape either but it's still holding it's own lol. But that's when I knew it was a legit '85 since it was the blue case with the black leather compartment tab. I know '84s have the blue with the tan tab. I'm not sure about the other years. No I didn't get it padded, though it seems pretty comfortable as is.

Haha I just looked, no it doesn't have it on the 1st fret. Weird I didn't notice that lol. I didn't replace the pickups, but it seems like they were added in the 80s shortly after. Jackson those days came with SDs and Kirk custom ordered his with EMGs, so most likely someone added this after since the chances are slim that someone custom ordered this the same year with EMGs. But they are '80s EMG 81s, so I don't know the exact year, but the reason why I think they were added later was because the pickup cavities were sanded slightly more on the sides to fit the EMGs it seems. I didn't see another color underneath just a weakly painted black and wood where it was sanded a bit. I had them add the shielding paint in the cavities since it was pretty loud when I was playing it the first time. So it's much better now.

But also if you watch some of Kirk's gear runs, Justin shows off the Jackson a few times and you can see at certain points more that it's the painted white logo which also matches up with the timeline.

Thanks man! Yea I know they both go so well together, I'm glad I ended up buying it as well.

Thanks man! 

Gotcha, yea I was wondering what happened for him to have to use it lol.