As mentioned earlier, I’ve been writing for the Seymour Duncan blog. My latest post is a DIY piece on creating what I’ve called a two stage potentiometer. The idea came out when I was thinking about pickups like the Seymour Duncan JB, which was originally designed to be used with …
Jemsite is one of my favourite forums to hang out on. There are a great number of fantastic members, all fans of Ibanez guitars. Late last year, one member posted about a whole bunch of pedal enclosures that he had swirled (like some of the classic Jem models). I thought …
I got some more work on the RG450 done today. The weather held out, although my can of white paint didn’t. As of last night I had applied two coats of clear satin polyurethane to the neck. It was looking and feeling pretty good, so I figured I would do …
I got a chance to continue on with the RG450 project today. During the week I managed to rough up the primer with some course grit wet and dry sand paper, and got a couple of coats of white paint onto the body.Today would be the day I would try …
A while back I had a Japanese made 2003 Ibanez RG450 with Edge Pro donated to me by a good friend of mine from Jemsite. It was in quite rough condition when he bought it as a project guitar. He cut a Jem style monkey grip, and rerouted the output …