Jackson

For Jackson Guitars, we recommend The Guitar Centre at the Gabba (click here to shop all available Jackson Guitars)

Apart from some accessories and the occasional second-hand instrument, we don't currently stock Jackson Guitars at Riffs & Licks Music, but our mates at The Guitar Centre at the Gabba do! If you've landed here looking for a Jackson guitar for sale in Australia, they're well worth checking out for instruments built around metal, hard rock and high-performance playing.

If you're comparing shred and metal guitars before choosing a Jackson, we stock plenty of alternatives at Riffs & Licks Music. Explore Ibanez for everything from versatile high-performance electrics to dedicated shred machines, Charvel for hot-rodded guitars that combine familiar shapes with modern performance features (and share an intertwined history with Jackson), or Legator for modern and extended-range instruments aimed at technical and progressive players.

About Jackson

Jackson Guitars have been synonymous with high-performance electric guitars since the early 1980s, but their story is closely intertwined with another famous name in performance guitars: Charvel. Grover Jackson took control of Charvel in the late 1970s, building hot-rodded instruments for the emerging generation of technically demanding rock players. A pivotal moment came when Randy Rhoads approached Jackson with ideas for a radically redesigned V-shaped guitar. The resulting Concorde was sufficiently different from the existing Charvel instruments that it carried Jackson's own name on the headstock, becoming the starting point for the Jackson brand and the design that evolved into the iconic Rhoads.

That heritage helped establish Jackson as a name built around speed, technical playing and increasingly aggressive guitar design. From the streamlined Soloist and Dinky to the unmistakable Rhoads, King V, Kelly and Warrior shapes, Jackson guitars have become particularly closely associated with hard rock, metal and shred. Across the range you'll find features aimed at demanding players, including slim neck profiles, compound-radius fingerboards, high-output humbuckers, deep upper-fret access and locking tremolo systems on many models. Jackson also caters to a broad spectrum of players with six, seven and eight-string guitars, signature instruments and ranges extending from accessible first metal guitars through to professional and USA-made models.