“The neck is essentially twice the thickness of many standard necks. It was like, ‘Let’s see how big we can go – let’s go for a record-breaker’”: The making of Phil Collen’s monster new Jackson Tele-style

Phil Collen's Jackson T-Style Prototype.

In our recent interview with Phil Collen, the Def Leppard stalwart waxed lyrical about the enduring appeal of Pyromania, working with Tom Morello, and most intriguingly, his custom Jackson Tele-type, which he has dubbed his “new favourite guitar”.

The model is most notable for having “the fattest neck Jackson has ever made”. With that in mind, we sought out Jackson Master Builder Joe Williams to get the lowdown on the building of the guitar – and how that enormous neck came to be…