Yikes! You have to take the NECK off to adjust it!?!? Or do you mean the pickguard? How can you adjust the neck without strings and some string tension on it? That certainly would be a huge drawback!

The SDX certainly LOOKS like a strat; I'd never seen a Jackson with the strat headstock... it LOOKS like a strat, and HANGS like a strat, but does it QUACK like a strat? Interesting string tree on those - like some of the old Japanese guitars of the '60's. The one volume/one tone control makes me wonder why the strat didn't move to that over time...