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having something that you love and you can express yourself with is all that matters. Gear is great but that fire and drive is indispensable. Some of the best recording sessions I conducted back when I did that for people were bare level gear but man did they come to play.
My first "good guitar", first 7, and first Ibanez:
While there is a long and convoluted story behind why this particular guitar exists, pleased how this worked out in the end. Not many people I know of that would have an iceman 7 string. Perle guitars body with the neck off of my first ibanez RG 7 string. Currently has pickups from my other RG 7 in it. Partly due to having them around, and partly wanting to get rid of parts and have them in a working guitar. Much to my surprise, the quantum pickups aren't medieval ear torture devices (looking at you axis, powersound, and infinity pickups). If I get some free scratch I may put new ones in but it's not a priority.
Perle guitars is easy to order from/work with. He answers emails and messages within a reasonable amount of time, and overall build quality is frighteningly high. Things of note:
His 7 string bodies are routed to accommodate Fujigen factory necks. MII necks will requre a bit of work to fit because they're wider and have different AANJ hole spacing. Wasn't a big deal for me because neck can (and in my case were) be plugged with maple dowels and redrilled. Neck and joint should have a bit of attention paid to as well, although slimming down the neck heel to fit may also need to be done by a millimeter or two. Thankfully the iceman neck pocket and my RG neck fit like they were made for each other, but still ... would check this regardless. So definitely see if any corrections need to be made before bolting a MII neck to a Perle guitars body.
Including a picture of a WIP RG 7 of mine to show an example of Perle pickguards. Just pick what you want from some drop down menus on his website and wait for it to ship. Ignore the pickup switch slot cut, that was me trying (and failing) to cut a selector switch slot. He laser cuts his pickguards and man do they look the business.
