So, I just fell in love with a guitar...

[Forkface]

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

 

[Bodes]

Can't help you out in any way, shape or form, but god-damn that is a friggin' sa-WEEEEEEEEEEEET Iceman.

Can't wait for updates.

 

[Valnob]

So it's a Tosin TAM100 but in a iceman body !

It looks so good.

For the bridge, it looks like a gibsom TOM and the triangle plate may be added but not part of the bridge

I've found some similar plates :

 

[Vrollin]

A gold Gibraltar would be the easiest replacement here...

 

[Forkface]

A gold Gibraltar would be the easiest replacement here...

thats the problem, i dont think there are gold Gibraltar standards, or at least i havent found one.

 

[Vrollin]

They're on the new iron labels

 

[SouthpawGuy]

Looks just like the cloud inlay and tailpiece on the older Ibanez Artists

 

[asher]

Wow. That is HOT!

 

[Konfyouzd]

Meh...

 

[Dentom79]

The iceman suits the whole TAM100/10 design better than the RG, cannot wait to see the endresult if you plan to go through with this.

 

[Forkface]

They're on the new iron labels

yeah i thought about it, and with the amount of ppl that didnt like gold hardware on those i was like, ill just trade it with someone. BUT those are the new gibraltars, idunno if they fit the same way, or have the same string height, etc.

btw, thank you all for the replies I am 99% convinced that im going for it, as soon as i figure out the bridge part.

 

[vilk]

its so god damn mother....ing good looking guitar ....

 

[Alex Kenivel]

It's hard to find those Gibraltar bridges by themselves. As far as I've looked no one had them for sale.

I was looking for the newer, lower-shouldered ones to replace my older one with high shoulders.

Cool looking iceman, indeed

 

[HurrDurr]

Most beautiful Iceman I've ever seen, straight up.

 

[pondman]

Yup its hot ! I started building one after I saw it.
It got as far as a body blank...a little something for the winter months.

 

[XxJoshxX]

Yup its hot ! I started building one after I saw it.
It got as far as a body blank...a little something for the winter months.

Yep. Just glued up a body blank, after my tele is done I NEED to make one of these

 

[Adam Of Angels]

I have never seen that Iceman until now, and not only is it absolutely amazing, but it's way cooler because Ihsahn is playing it.

 

[stevexc]

With that pickguard, I almost want to call it an Ice Paul.

I need it.

 

[Adam Of Angels]

Ice Paul

Genius.

 

[mikolo]

Hello Ibanez, what will it take to get that into production?