See my work is being advertised here, so thought it was best to shine some light on the matter.
Some 2-3 years ago, after listening my whole life to metal/hard rock....I decided it was time to start playing the guitar. And without a guitar in the house, it would never happen, so I bought a RG2550GK, and started learning to play. Damn difficult that is!!!!!
I got intriqued by 7 strings guitars and got the urge for a JS-7.
Rumors were Ibanez was bringing one out.....and I decided to roll my own.
I spend days reading up on stuff on projectguitar.com, and one day I took the plunge.
Picked up Limba body blank from local woodsupplier, order Ebony fretboard from Lmii....sourced all other parts and got going.
My JS-7 guitar is the guitar that started it all. It took me almost 2 years to get to stage it started to look like a guitar.
Currently she is at the painter getting dressed up in a Candy Apple Red 50s flame job.
As the project took some time (sourcing parts, figuring out how to do stuff, making mistakes, covering them up again, blablabla....) Ibanez brought out the RGT320QM RBB.
What can I say,.... I was in love.
Trip to the woodsupplier brought home some more Limba, some Maple, some Wenge......Edge Lo Pro off the net..some awesome quilted maple..and we were off again. Reading up about 7 strings and extended scale lengths I thought it was cool to do something like that. So there it was 27", 24 fret RGT-7 QL RBB XL.
While adding an Ibanez 540P tripple bucker, and a Maxxas to my collection, I got the urge for a 540Pii. Hard to find......impatient as hell.......woodworking skill improving. Darn....were off again...but with a twist.
540Pvii, 7 string version of 540pii with tripple bucker set-up. While making templates based on 540pii from other 540pii owner, I got hold of my own 540pii.
With proper body in the house, work progressed nicely.
Currently waiting for custom pick-up ring and neckplate.
I'm not very good at waiting, so next project was dreamed up. A Zebrano RG-8 with fanned frets. Something like this, but then with 25,5-27,5 fanned frets. Not sure what to do with all these strings.....but fanned frets is challenge to create, and is something different. My body looks like this
Then I spotted K7 on the net for cheap, thought of turning it into this (right guitar):
But realized it would be easier to roll my own again. It ended up being two RG-7's. One will be black with white binding (body,neck, headstock), one will be all black. The one with the binding will be called Cocaine. Alder and Mahogany bodies currently completed.
So there you have it......all projects in the works.
Oh, wait.....and there there is 6 stringer ESP Axxion type copy for my brother. He was so fed up seeing all this wood being turned into guitars that he demanded his own. What could I do. New Mahogany body blank brought home, left over neck blank from JS-7....and some sweat and tears, and tata...
More pics:
http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v466/rggr/
As you can see nothing fancy, no CNC, no frills,.....just some cheap tools, and occasional date with local bandsaw and planer.
Oh, and project that is currently in the "dream" stages is a 7 string Maxxas in Candy Lizard Green.
Some 2-3 years ago, after listening my whole life to metal/hard rock....I decided it was time to start playing the guitar. And without a guitar in the house, it would never happen, so I bought a RG2550GK, and started learning to play. Damn difficult that is!!!!!
I got intriqued by 7 strings guitars and got the urge for a JS-7.
Rumors were Ibanez was bringing one out.....and I decided to roll my own.
I spend days reading up on stuff on projectguitar.com, and one day I took the plunge.
Picked up Limba body blank from local woodsupplier, order Ebony fretboard from Lmii....sourced all other parts and got going.
My JS-7 guitar is the guitar that started it all. It took me almost 2 years to get to stage it started to look like a guitar.
Currently she is at the painter getting dressed up in a Candy Apple Red 50s flame job.
As the project took some time (sourcing parts, figuring out how to do stuff, making mistakes, covering them up again, blablabla....) Ibanez brought out the RGT320QM RBB.
What can I say,.... I was in love.
Trip to the woodsupplier brought home some more Limba, some Maple, some Wenge......Edge Lo Pro off the net..some awesome quilted maple..and we were off again. Reading up about 7 strings and extended scale lengths I thought it was cool to do something like that. So there it was 27", 24 fret RGT-7 QL RBB XL.
While adding an Ibanez 540P tripple bucker, and a Maxxas to my collection, I got the urge for a 540Pii. Hard to find......impatient as hell.......woodworking skill improving. Darn....were off again...but with a twist.
540Pvii, 7 string version of 540pii with tripple bucker set-up. While making templates based on 540pii from other 540pii owner, I got hold of my own 540pii.
With proper body in the house, work progressed nicely.
Currently waiting for custom pick-up ring and neckplate.
I'm not very good at waiting, so next project was dreamed up. A Zebrano RG-8 with fanned frets. Something like this, but then with 25,5-27,5 fanned frets. Not sure what to do with all these strings.....but fanned frets is challenge to create, and is something different. My body looks like this
Then I spotted K7 on the net for cheap, thought of turning it into this (right guitar):
But realized it would be easier to roll my own again. It ended up being two RG-7's. One will be black with white binding (body,neck, headstock), one will be all black. The one with the binding will be called Cocaine. Alder and Mahogany bodies currently completed.
So there you have it......all projects in the works.
Oh, wait.....and there there is 6 stringer ESP Axxion type copy for my brother. He was so fed up seeing all this wood being turned into guitars that he demanded his own. What could I do. New Mahogany body blank brought home, left over neck blank from JS-7....and some sweat and tears, and tata...
More pics:
http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v466/rggr/
As you can see nothing fancy, no CNC, no frills,.....just some cheap tools, and occasional date with local bandsaw and planer.
Oh, and project that is currently in the "dream" stages is a 7 string Maxxas in Candy Lizard Green.
Ill just have to rep you for being so cool. 
