Easter weekend build - RG2228

[mankymusic]

Its easter weekend, I had planned to be out camping but instead I'm stuck in the house with a cold, its horrible out there anyway.
I decided to but the time to good use and assemble the parts I've been collecting for the past 6 months

bare wood a few weeks back, got the body last year from Area51

a lot of sanding

then a lot of rubbing

about 8 coats of TruOil

Neck and bridge from a RGA8

The body is an RG2228 so the neck isn't an exact fit, I glued a piece of laminate to the body to pad it out by 1mm, I then had to drill new holes on the neck, scary!

Copper in the cavities

Two switched pots, tone coil tap and volume kill switch

I made the cavity covers out of cd cases

I think the wooden knobs really finish it off

inspired by pondman - thanks, maybe one day I'll get a nice neck like yours to go with it.

 

[J_Mac]

Different! I like it How is the sound?

 

[mankymusic]

Different! I like it How is the sound?

I'll be honest, I find it difficult to say, my other RGA8 has EMG 808x's in it, obviously this sounds totally different (which was the idea, why have two guitars that sound the same?), the ionizers do sound a bit like single coils.

I've not played it enough to say much more yet, I'll just plug it in

 

[Ordacleaphobia]

That is totally bitchin'. I LOVE the multi-lam look.
There was a custom RG7620 body like that for sale around here, almost picked it up but I lack the desire for a floating bridge 7.

Still though.
Thought about it.

 

[skeels]

Nice! skeels likes this

 

[Ram150023]

That is awesome to see such a huge multi lam body!!

I was on the Area51 site last night

HNGD for you!!

I need to find an RG8 / RGA8 / Ibanez 8 string neck by itself... So if anyone happens across one please hit me up!!

 

[pondman]

Nice one. That's one of Zack's bodies ?
Who built the neck ?

Congrats.

Camping Book a room

 

[kchay]

...., now I want those cavity covers!

 

[awesomeaustin]

I would chop so many onions on that