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  1. Thanks guys! Yeah, it was the images per post limit I ran up against. The sound clips is a great idea. I'll try and get to that early this week. Today is already invested in preparation to watch the Lions put a spankin' on the Niners! Oh, and watching both of my fantasy teams go 2-0.
  2. Greetings all. Some of you might have seen my NGD post from last November, announcing the commencement of my latest project. If not, in short, I have a habit of buying nice guitars from crackheads who have neglected them, and return them to better-than-new condition -- oh, and make them daily players again too! 270 days (8 months, 27 days) later, and this one is complete (for almost a month now)! Before the questions are asked as to why I did what I did, let me tell you up front. Two years ago, I spent an entire weekend at every guitar shop in the greater San Francisco Bay Area, looking for my ideal guitar -- the one that feels perfect. One of the first ones I grabbed was an Ibanez S-series, and I instantly fell in love... Until I struck a pick to it, that is. It felt amazing, but I kept hitting that center pickup. It drove me bat **** crazy. I even played a few H-H configured Sabers, but the spacing is so tight, I'd still occasionally hit the neck pup with my pick. The answer was a S-H configuration -- something Ibanez has yet to build in an S-series, and therefore I had to build myself. Fast forward a year, and I find this neglected beauty on Craigslist. I threw a super low-ball offer at the crackhead, and he took it! Being the emphatic George Lynch fan that I am, paint and circuit was a no brainer. Convincing my [then-pregnant] wife that this was a worthwhile project, not such a no brainer. Alas, she went along, and we both got what we wanted... A dream guitar for me, and something significant to hold over my head for her! Here's where it all started... Just purchased from said crackhead at the West Oakland BART station. Rough shape, but it's all there, and the neck is straight! I love Craigslist! I love the MoP inlays on this! I think it'll look HAWT with the paint scheme I have planned! Baby-**** brown sanded off, and all the pickup plugs shaped and fitted. Loosely sat a single-coil pickup in the cavity to ensure fit. Pickup plugs and locking dowels sanded flush. Test fit new pickups! SD Hot Stack for Strat in the neck, and an SD George Lynch Screamin' Demon Trembucker in the bridge. For the record, I ended up selling the cozmo hardware on eBay, and bought brand new black hardware. Re-worked all the frets. They had some really deep gouges in them. I sanded them out with 400 grit sandpaper, then polished them up with some 0000 grade steel wool. They're perfect once again! The fret on the right is a "before" pic, and the fret on the left is an "after". Excess component cavities filled and sanded down. Off for paint!!! Fresh paint on the headstock. The logo is a chrome JS sticker, but removed the "J". I like the script look better than the original S logo. Baking the clear coat in the sun. All complete and assembled! For those who are interested, I kept a running total of expenditures on the project. Also, there is more to this story (with more pictures) available on my project webpage. I'd post it all here, but forum rules prevent it (already tried). I think I did quite well for $710! Tell me what you think, and thanks for checking this out.
  3. Greetings all! I've been poking around here for a while, and figured it was time to get involved and say hello. I'm an IT geek from the SF Bay Area, and I'm embarking on my second "rescued from a crackhead" project, using my dream body -- the Ibanez S series! I just picked up a 2004 Korean S470 DXQM that's in "okay" shape. Everything is straight and works. Feels good, no significant dings. Light rusting on the metallic parts. It has the ZR trem, and the bridge pup was upgraded to an active EMG-85. Face of the body looks like crap -- crackhead spray painted the quilted top with a baby-poop brown color. To make matters worse, the crackhead didn't even disassemble the guitar. Instead, he just taped-up the bridge, pups and neck, and did a poor job of that too. That said, who really cares, right?! I bought this with the intention to rescue and restore. Okay, and now to make a lot of enemies right up front... Purchase price == $200! (When I said "crackhead", I really meant it) Here she is in all her currently sad glory (cell phone pics -- sorry). In the restoration, I'm gonna edit it to meet my prefs. The neck pup will be filled and routed to support a single coil, and the center pup will be filled, deleting it all together. Having grown up a huge Dokken / George Lynch fan, I'm gonna refinish this like the ESP Sunburst Tiger. Wish me luck!
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