NGD RGA wonderfulness

[mikolo]

I picked this up about a month ago locally. Got it for a pretty good price. Unfortunately like a few other used ibby's i've picked up it needed a full re-fret and neck treatment as it had a bit of a curve to it. It also required a new nut as the old one had been filed for what is assumed to be a very large gauge string. After some work from my local master luthier thing is an absolute monster. It came with a dimarzio titan which sounds ok... Its balanced but I think I would like a crunchier tone.

I think this thing def meets the hype. This will be my alternate tunings guitar.

Action sits at a nice 1.9mm low C# and 1.2mm high C#.








Ibanez Family Portrait

 

[ToneLab]

Beautiful guitar. Great collection.

 

[mikolo]

Beautiful guitar. Great collection.

Thank you sir.

 

[AkiraSpectrum]

looks SO good!
I have Titans in my LTD EC-1000. I agree that the Titan isn't really a 'crunchy' pickup. To crunch it up a bit try backing the pickup off from the strings a tad more (especially from the bass side).

 

[pushpull7]

Holy f....., some lovely guitars!

 

[mikolo]

looks SO good!
I have Titans in my LTD EC-1000. I agree that the Titan isn't really a 'crunchy' pickup. To crunch it up a bit try backing the pickup off from the strings a tad more (especially from the bass side).

Thanks, I'll give it a shot.

Holy f....., some lovely guitars!

Thanks man! Always had a thing for ibby's.

 

[vilk]

Those frets make my old RG2228 look like bullshit! I want those ....in frets!

 

[Tyler]

where do you get those recessing strap locks? ive been dying to find them

 

[lewstherin006]

Congrats bro she looks great!!

 

[mikolo]

Those frets make my old RG2228 look like bullshit! I want those ....in frets!

Guitar Groomer/Shabat guitar. People send him guitars from all over the states. He truly is a master, lucky his shop is right down the street.

where do you get those recessing strap locks? ive been dying to find them

There dunlop recessed strap loks. Quite nice. You can get em almost any where ebay, sweetwater, ect..

Congrats bro she looks great!!

Thanks.

 

[knagy0325]

Is the JEM that much thicker than the RGA like it looks on the pic?

 

[fortisursus]

Damn everytime i see one of these I want one even more...

 

[Warg Master]

Mmmmm ... Nice wood, man!

 

[noobstix]

nice man. Mine was great, would love to have owned one from new though!

 

[mikolo]

Is the JEM that much thicker than the RGA like it looks on the pic?

Yes it is! RG body is much thicker.

 

[GRIZ]

nice! i have two of those rga's

one of them is the same color as yours and the other is the violin brown one.

LOVE IT AND NEVER LET IT GO.

my prestige family, left to right: 2007 rga 121 (3rd owner), 2014 s55528 (first owner), 2005 rga121 (original owner!)