NGD! Ibanez RG7621 first 7 string

[WillVilla]

Hello! I wanted to share my recent acquisition It's an Ibanez rg7621. It came a little beat up with the front finish sanded off, and I figured it would be great to do a refinish on. I ended up just painting the front where it had been sanded off originally, leaving the black on the back and sides. I usually prefer a matching colored body and headstock, but with the black sides and back, I think the headstock is fine.
I also put in some crunch lab and liquifier pickups.
It plays great and I couldn't be happier with this guitar. It's my first 7 string guitar, and my 3rd Ibanez.

 

[WillVilla]

Having trouble posting more than one pic, but here is the original

 

[WillVilla]

And another angle

 

[TKOA-Dex]

WOW! Beautiful guitar! Loving the green. (I'm a sucker for green guitars).

Looks great man. HNGD!

 

[asher]

Wow, that could be my old 7421! I've kinda been wondering where this went. I stripped the whole thing and tung oiled it (including the headstock...) so, if so, someone did some work on it again.

Do you have any more pictures of it pre-green?

 

[WillVilla]

Sure, however this is a 7621. It has the triangular pickup routes, minus the bridge pickup side, the previous owner had a carvin pickup installed, so it had to be widened on one side. Plud it's stamped on both neck and body. It has original black paint on the headstock, and back and sides of the body.

 

[WillVilla]

Still not sure why I can't post multiple pics in one post, lol.

 

[asher]

Yup, definitely not. I had picked it up bright racing orange and was going to stripe it, but the person turned out to have done a horrible job on it. In sanding it down to repaint I found a pretty sweet veneer under it that resembled that one.

HNGD! That's a rad shade of green.

 

[lewstherin006]

Congrats bro that color looks great!

 

[Ancient]

Is that a metal flake green?? Love the color. I was thinking of refinishing my rg in a olive drab green.

 

[WillVilla]

Thanks all! So for the paint, I picked up a can of primer from autozone, did a couple coats with that, spot filled all divots etc.. then I picked up a small can of lime green testors laquer from Micheals. Then clear coated with Watco clear laquer. Let it dry for a week, and got impatient and reassembled... I might get around to wet sanding and buffing later, but I have band practice, and I cant stop playing this thing, lol

 

[WillVilla]

Taped up back, sides, and cavities.

 

[WillVilla]

Primer coat with some bondo patching

 

[WillVilla]

Color coat

 

[Pikka Bird]

Still not sure why I can't post multiple pics in one post, lol.

I think it's because the SS image attachment feature goes by picture size (not dimensions) rather than quantity. Probably to prevent bots and annoying bungholes from wrecking the entire forum by attaching fifty of those ultra high-rez space photos to a single post.

edit: And to expand on that, you can see the total space for allowed attachments when you post. Since you're posting rather huge images you're going to run out fairly quickly, so I suggest you just move them all off-site (to Imgur, for instance) and hotlink them.

 

[asher]

I think it's because the SS image attachment feature goes by picture size (not dimensions) rather than quantity. Probably to prevent bots and annoying bungholes from wrecking the entire forum by attaching fifty of those ultra high-rez space photos to a single post.

10k by 10k Goomba or Awesomeface or bust

 

[WillVilla]

Ah okay thank you! I've been uploading these from my phone, but I'm going to try imgur, and post some better pics later!

 

[WillVilla]

 

[WillVilla]

Painting Pics

 

[Pikka Bird]

You can upload bigger pictures than that to Imgur...

Guitar looks awesome, BTW.