Jackson Mark Morton Dominion Signature Guitar
January 26th, 2007
Jackson has just unveiled a new signature guitar for Mark Morton of Lamb of God. If you head over to jacksonguitars.com right now you’ll see their little showcase. The guitar is a customized version of the Swee-Tone Jazz’r that Mark himself helped design.
Jackson has lost a few artists to ESP over the last few years… well basically since they were bought by Fender. This shows some artists still have faith in the Jackson brand. The guitar, which Mark Morton helped design really is run of the mill though. If you look on Jackson’s site, all of the unique features are in the aesthetics. You’ll see though that it has all of the standard metal guitar features including Seymour Duncan pickups, jumbo frets, and neck-through-body design.
Set aside the amazing finish and unique body design. The thing that stands out at me is both the bridge and neck position have the same pickup. To be hones the first thing I would do after buying this guitar would be swap out one of the pickups with a different Seymour Duncan to increase the range of sound. On the other hand, this IS a signature guitar… if you are going to buy it my guess is you are trying replicate Morton’s sound. Either that or you are like me and are having strong sexual feelings towards the guitar due to it’s stunning finish.
Feature Summary
- Body: Chambered Mahogany with Quilt Maple Top
- Neck: Neck-Thru-Body Mahogany with Pultruded Graphite Rods for Stability
- Tuning Machines: Pearloid Buttoned Sperzel® Locking Tuners
- Fingerboard: Ebony
- No. of Frets: 22 Jumbo Frets
- Bridge Pickup: Seymour Duncan® ‘59™ Humbucking Pickup
- Neck Pickup: Seymour Duncan® ‘59™ Humbucking Pickup
- Controls: Volume 1. (Neck Pickup), Volume 2. (Bridge Pickup), Tone 1. (Neck Pickup), Tone 2. (Bridge Pickup)
- Bridge: Schaller® 456 Fully Adjustable Bridge with Anchored Tailpiece
- Pickup Switching: 3-Position Toggle Pickup Selector and 2 Mini-Toggle Coil Splitter Switches
- Hardware: Chrome
- Strings: GHS Boomers, (.010 to .046)
- Scale Length: 24.75”
Tags: guitar-review, Jackson-Guitars, mark-morton, signature-series
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April 2nd, 2008 15:05
Hi!
I will buy that guitar. I love it. But I’m not sure at all. I don’t like to “copy” the guitars of other artists, but it’s amazing. Is the guitar really well done? I’ve used it twice and the sound is really strong. will it be a good purchase?
THANKS!
August 23rd, 2008 17:20
you need to play one to really appreciate the tonal diversity that it’s got. i don’t believe you would need to change a pickup out. the bridge pu has a nice thick, well rounded tone with focused mids and treble, just what you’d want in a bridge pickup (it’s a duncan 59, afterall). the neck pu really ups the ante so to speak because with some high gain it sings in a way hard to explain…rolling off the tone gives it a sweet vowel-like, dare i say “woman” tone. pull in some treble and it has a great “stuck wah” flavor, very different from the bridge 59 in every way. it really is one hell of a guitar. jackson and morton brought a heavy hitter to the ball game.
January 22nd, 2010 03:38
QJ: “If Chuck wants a rematch, he’s going to have to come all the way back over to Japan”
February 9th, 2010 19:20
Found this blog through google, great work man! Keeps me motivated to build mine!