Hello fellow guitarists,
Last year I saved this 1997 Ibanez RG548 NTM for only 350.
When I got it, I didn't look that good, the finish was full of scratches and a few small dings, the cavities were filled with a white funges-like substance, and the electronics and hardware were dirty as hell.
I cleaned the electronics and hardware, strung 10-52 strings on it and start playing some show with it.
Now I've come to the conclusion that it still needs alot of work, so I thought I make a thread here so you guys can follow the progress of the guitar, and maybe help me through the steps.
Checklist:
Anyway, its great weather here to take some pictures of the guitar, so here's some porn:
and my cat beneath my car, not looking amused by the lack of attention she's getting.![lol :lol: :lol:](http://www.sevenstring.org/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/laugh.gif)
cheers
Last year I saved this 1997 Ibanez RG548 NTM for only 350.
When I got it, I didn't look that good, the finish was full of scratches and a few small dings, the cavities were filled with a white funges-like substance, and the electronics and hardware were dirty as hell.
I cleaned the electronics and hardware, strung 10-52 strings on it and start playing some show with it.
Now I've come to the conclusion that it still needs alot of work, so I thought I make a thread here so you guys can follow the progress of the guitar, and maybe help me through the steps.
Checklist:
- adjust thrustrod : I recently noticed that I have alot of noticable fretbuzz on the first few frets, and on a few of the last ones, so I think that the neck has to much backbow, and the I have to adjust the rod to have less tension. ONLY problem here is, I don't have the right tool to adjust the rod, does anybody know what size of "inbuskey" Ibanez uses for their thrustrods?
- intonation : especially the gstring has a pretty shoddy intonation
- action : lower is better, RG's got to have supersporty action
- clean cavities : I got some tripple A steelwol I used to make the guitars finish less glossy I think might be usefull to get this white substance away, because the trem and pickup cavities really look gross now.
- refinish : The guitar originally had a glossy finish, which wasn't really great, so I used some light steelwol to give it a more matt-like finish, and in the progress covering up some bad scratches the previous owner made.
But now I wanna get rid of the whole finish and use tung oil to refinish the Ash body. But I'm afraid I might damage the wood by sanding , because it think that the clear coat is pretty thin. What gritt sizes should I use? - clean fretboard : Lemon oil that baby up
- clean trem : when I'm going to sand the body, I will have to remove the trem, so I thought I could do some cleaning while it's removed anyway. Is there anything I should look out for while disassembling + what parts should be cleaned?
Anyway, its great weather here to take some pictures of the guitar, so here's some porn:
![Photo0033.jpg](http://i440.photobucket.com/albums/qq123/JoskeGrindcore/Photo0033.jpg)
![Photo0034.jpg](http://i440.photobucket.com/albums/qq123/JoskeGrindcore/Photo0034.jpg)
![Photo0035.jpg](http://i440.photobucket.com/albums/qq123/JoskeGrindcore/Photo0035.jpg)
![Photo0036.jpg](http://i440.photobucket.com/albums/qq123/JoskeGrindcore/Photo0036.jpg)
and my cat beneath my car, not looking amused by the lack of attention she's getting.
![lol :lol: :lol:](http://www.sevenstring.org/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/laugh.gif)
![Photo0032.jpg](http://i440.photobucket.com/albums/qq123/JoskeGrindcore/Photo0032.jpg)
cheers