AdamBrad
New member
So, a couple of years ago I bought a second hand Ibanez RG321, which stock looked like this (stolen pic):
A bit unusual for Ibanez, since it's a hardtail mahogany body. Wizard II neck in standard Maple/Rosewood.
However, the previous owner was as mod-happy as a SDUGF member, and it looked like this:
He'd replaced the pickups with some un-branded ones with worn-nickel covers. At a rough guess they were some kind of hot PAF style. Ok, but not spectacular, especially for drop-tunings. He also switched-in CTS pots, switchcraft pickup-switch and jack socket, Grover locking Rotomatics (black), and added a couple of mini-switches for coil-splitting.
Since I wanted to play metal in Drop-C and lower, I switched the pickups for Distortion/Jazz, which are great. They clean up really well with the coil-splits too.
The hardware was now in 4 different colours! (the original black-chrome/cosmo black, and upgrades in chrome, worn nickel, and black) So to try and make the appearance more uniform I switched everything I could to black. I also used some rosewood-coloured stickers to cover the inlays. They're far from perfect, but it's more subtle than the original white plastic.
I was kinda inspired by Blackmachine and Hufschmid's more understated builds (though I'll never own one of those!).
Also, thanks to Jolly for recommending pickup covers with no holes for trembuckers!
Anyway, here goes :headbang::
A bit unusual for Ibanez, since it's a hardtail mahogany body. Wizard II neck in standard Maple/Rosewood.
However, the previous owner was as mod-happy as a SDUGF member, and it looked like this:
He'd replaced the pickups with some un-branded ones with worn-nickel covers. At a rough guess they were some kind of hot PAF style. Ok, but not spectacular, especially for drop-tunings. He also switched-in CTS pots, switchcraft pickup-switch and jack socket, Grover locking Rotomatics (black), and added a couple of mini-switches for coil-splitting.
Since I wanted to play metal in Drop-C and lower, I switched the pickups for Distortion/Jazz, which are great. They clean up really well with the coil-splits too.
The hardware was now in 4 different colours! (the original black-chrome/cosmo black, and upgrades in chrome, worn nickel, and black) So to try and make the appearance more uniform I switched everything I could to black. I also used some rosewood-coloured stickers to cover the inlays. They're far from perfect, but it's more subtle than the original white plastic.
I was kinda inspired by Blackmachine and Hufschmid's more understated builds (though I'll never own one of those!).
Also, thanks to Jolly for recommending pickup covers with no holes for trembuckers!
Anyway, here goes :headbang::
