Bought her new in 2002. Kinda depressing thinking back and being able to buy an MIJ Ibanez for $400. She's trashed from sitting cased in a dank garage for a decade.
Obviously I'd have to replace all the hardware and electronics, but I'm comfortable doing that myself. Some nice non-locking tuners, an OFR and I'm thinking of going with the JR Daemonum set with another Retro-Active single coil in the middle position.
My real concern is the frets. I think they're too far gone for polishing to revive.
I figure I have 3 options here assuming polishing is unsuccessful...
1. Have it professionally refretted, seems like the most reasonable option but I have no idea of what the cost might be
2. Refret it myself, I'd have to buy all the tools and quite honestly would probably never use any of them again
3. Buy a neck off Reverb/eBay, this would probably be the simplest solution but then the only original part left would be the body itself
Thoughts?
Obviously I'd have to replace all the hardware and electronics, but I'm comfortable doing that myself. Some nice non-locking tuners, an OFR and I'm thinking of going with the JR Daemonum set with another Retro-Active single coil in the middle position.
My real concern is the frets. I think they're too far gone for polishing to revive.
I figure I have 3 options here assuming polishing is unsuccessful...
1. Have it professionally refretted, seems like the most reasonable option but I have no idea of what the cost might be
2. Refret it myself, I'd have to buy all the tools and quite honestly would probably never use any of them again
3. Buy a neck off Reverb/eBay, this would probably be the simplest solution but then the only original part left would be the body itself
Thoughts?