Jackson Dinky Dk2 Serial Numbers
Jackson Dinky Dk2 Serial Numbers Lookup
I'm not a Jackson expert, but mine has the same serial number format as yours but starts with 97 instead of 96, and it was made in Korea (I had the Made in Korea sticker on mine until about a week ago.)A search yeilds conflicting information such as 'Japanese guitars have 6 serial numbers' and then some saying their Jackson with the same serial formats as ours are Japanese. If the latter is the case, then someone could scratch the silly little 'Made in' stickers off and instantly have a 'Made in Japan' Jackson.A look at the current catalog at the non USA guitars shows that the Pro Series and the X, which feature real SD pups, are made in Japan, as well as the MG series featuring the EMG pups. The lower end ones, featuring some EMG and Jackson pups ('Duncan Designed') are now made in India.This wasn't always the case though, as mine is a DXMGT-BCS (MG series -, and it was manufactured in Korea.Given all that, if Korea was the 'low-to-mid' end manufacturing which was later moved to India, and Japan was the 'high-mid to just under USA' factory, I'd offer the purely uneducated guess of 'that one is a Korean'. The fact that the pups are 'Duncan Designed' don't posture that guitar well in the Jackson heirarchy.