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Ok, so I saw the footage of Emperor playing on Hellfest on the Emperor thread, and I instantly fell in love with Ihsahn's Iceman.
seriously, its like the Gods of black metal forged it from tears and blood.
Anyway, I took me like 2 seconds to realize I wanted it. BAD. Took me another second to figure out that its a LACS and it will probably never see production.
SO, I decided to mod an existing iceman to get as close as possible.
this is the closest one IMO
Now, most of the mods are simple enough: one white pickup, gold pickup, knobs, tuners and pickup rings, brown tortoise pickguard and truss rod cover, natural back...
But there are a couple that might not be so easily achieved:
Flame maple top with trans white finish. (but i COULD live without this) and the BRIDGE.
so in essence, the bridge is the problem. Gibraltar vs some sort of TOM. Any ideas? is there anything gold that replaces a Gibraltar directly? or im gonna have to fill, redrill, and fit something completely different?
If i get a TOM would i have trouble with the neck angle?
All help is appreciated, thank you very much![Big Grin :D :D](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
![66650-emperor-1008378.jpg](http://www.frontview-magazine.be/sites/default/files/photobooks/emperor/pictures/66650-emperor-1008378.jpg)
seriously, its like the Gods of black metal forged it from tears and blood.
Anyway, I took me like 2 seconds to realize I wanted it. BAD. Took me another second to figure out that its a LACS and it will probably never see production.
SO, I decided to mod an existing iceman to get as close as possible.
this is the closest one IMO
![DV016_Jpg_Large_1352132364634_A.jpg](http://images.guitarcenter.com/products/optionLarge/Ibanez/DV016_Jpg_Large_1352132364634_A.jpg)
Now, most of the mods are simple enough: one white pickup, gold pickup, knobs, tuners and pickup rings, brown tortoise pickguard and truss rod cover, natural back...
But there are a couple that might not be so easily achieved:
Flame maple top with trans white finish. (but i COULD live without this) and the BRIDGE.
so in essence, the bridge is the problem. Gibraltar vs some sort of TOM. Any ideas? is there anything gold that replaces a Gibraltar directly? or im gonna have to fill, redrill, and fit something completely different?
If i get a TOM would i have trouble with the neck angle?
All help is appreciated, thank you very much