Maiden69 Posted March 16, 2005 Report Share Posted March 16, 2005 The pic do have what you call the compressed lines all over thye edges, but they will be even on the top of the quilt and not the way they looked on that pic. Look at the scraps that I used to test the stain for my guitar, and you will see the same type of lines on the bottom left one, but not on the other 2. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RGGR Posted March 25, 2005 Author Report Share Posted March 25, 2005 Quick update. Sprayed primer on body and headstock and sanded everything back. Went through another primer and sanding cycle to get everything smooth. (pics will follow.) Needs one more cycle......before painting. Then I married the neck up with the body. Yipppekayeeee! (used shorter and smaller screws so real neck screws will still have plenty of wood to grip on) Yes!!! Suddenly it looks like a guitar. Oh, yeeaaa!!!! Yesterday I measured out the distance of the trem studs. Today I repeated this 24,987 times. With Low B and high E string strung up in nut and tremolo I positioned the trem in relation to neck. Then I drilled the holes and layed out rest of trem routing. Already finished trem routing templates......As base I used routing info available on Floyd Rose website.....but laying everything out on paper I wasn't so very pleased with the FR routes.....made some adjustments in Autocad and drawn up my own. Tomorrow will route trem cavity. Ieeeeeeks........ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RGGR Posted March 26, 2005 Author Report Share Posted March 26, 2005 (edited) Okay......need your advice on this one. Routed OFR-7 cavity today. I could cut my hands on routes if I wanted too. Everything is looking very sharp. (Guess, trick in doing this in having nice and clean templates.) But now my question. On FR website.....on templates a distance is given of 71.76mm from trem stud centerline to end of trem cavity. I used distance of 72mm on my routes. So far so good.......but with test fitting the trem I noticed....that distance between clambing nut (bolt that runs through trem to lock down the strings in nuts) and the back of the cavity is nice narrow/slim (when intonation screws are in middle position, and nut is in most backward position)....BUT......if I would clamb the nut in last intonation nut position....I see possible issue with spacing between that bolt and end of cavity. On most 7s I see trem nuts intonated further back on lower strings......meaning...if I leave it like this.....I might run out of intonation room. Problem is.......when discover this, is when guitar is painted and strung up. Then i'm too late to correct it. Fail save option is to go for little more backward route in trem cavity. In following pic (pic from pinned trem routing templates thread). ......a distance between trem stud center line and back cavity is given of 75.75mm (36.75mm + 39mm).... Doing this will mean little more routing and bit more empty space will show up in back of cavity. So choice is.........live dangerously and go for nice narrow/slim routing .... and might run out of intonation room (if needed) Or.....go for fail save method and live with little wider trem route, at same time making sure I don't end up with something like this. Hope I explained it clearly. Edited March 26, 2005 by RGGR Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maiden69 Posted March 26, 2005 Report Share Posted March 26, 2005 All I could say is that if you measure the scale correctly, all you need to do is measure how far the intonation screw will go back and this is as far as you will have to rout to be safe. But on the same note, of the FR guitars that I had none of them I had to set the screw all the way out. And I think that the guy on that guitar routed way too much wood, or he had a regular FR and changed it for a low pro, on which the intonation screws don't go that far. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bowser Posted March 27, 2005 Report Share Posted March 27, 2005 That guitar was made by the Ibanez LACS Endorsee Custom Shop, it is Rob Balducci's, and I have no idea why the route is so long... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RGGR Posted March 27, 2005 Author Report Share Posted March 27, 2005 (edited) It's Rob Balducci's new Custom indeed, but I would have expected better job of Custom shop. Quilt is awesome but doesn't match. Also not big fan of how green paint came out (although that's personal). Guitar also has off-side dots fretmarkers on high E side of guitar. Pretty cool feature, and Rob commented that this did effect him while playing. (I expected his hands to cover the off-set dots on that side of the fretboard.) Well....back to my JS-7.......decided to route trem cavity few mm further back.......guess for first build just wanna be on safe side. Living dangerously will have to wait for day. Edited March 27, 2005 by RGGR Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bowser Posted March 28, 2005 Report Share Posted March 28, 2005 I took my RG550 all apart a few weeks ago to put a new pickup in it, and I pulled the bridge to get the pickguard off. While I had it out, I just got a piece of black stick on felt, cut it to the shape of the bottom of the trem cavity, and stuck it in there. It looks LOADS nicer now, so if you do end up thinking that your route is too long you could do that and i think to most people the issue would all but go away. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RGGR Posted March 29, 2005 Author Report Share Posted March 29, 2005 (edited) JS body anyone???? Edited March 29, 2005 by RGGR Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slabbefusk Posted March 29, 2005 Report Share Posted March 29, 2005 Those yours? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RGGR Posted March 29, 2005 Author Report Share Posted March 29, 2005 I wish they were....... http://www.stnk.ru/olympus/z98949.html http://www.stnk.ru/olympus/z98948.html http://www.stnk.ru/olympus/z98947.html http://www.stnk.ru/olympus/z98946.html http://www.stnk.ru/olympus/z98944.html http://www.stnk.ru/olympus/z98945.html http://www.stnk.ru/olympus/z98943.html http://www.stnk.ru/olympus/z98942.html http://www.stnk.ru/olympus/z98941.html http://www.stnk.ru/olympus/z98940.html These pics of Ibanez factory make me druil.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slabbefusk Posted March 29, 2005 Report Share Posted March 29, 2005 I'm in heaven! http://www.stnk.ru/olympus/pix/dr/j/56.jpg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RGGR Posted March 29, 2005 Author Report Share Posted March 29, 2005 (edited) Would it be nice to have one of these machines...... Only for 15 minutes....PLEASE!!!!....programming I will take care of myself...... And are these some gorgeous necks, or what? http://www.stnk.ru/olympus/pix/dr/j/44.jpg Not sure what function is of that little lip in neck, where neck meets the body. Could it be, so there is little more wood, so 3D CNC machine can make nice smooth transition from neck to body on neck-through?? Edited March 29, 2005 by RGGR Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jammy Posted March 29, 2005 Report Share Posted March 29, 2005 That explaination makes sense - I just spent about 20 mins looking through those photos We're as sad as each other I think Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RGGR Posted March 29, 2005 Author Report Share Posted March 29, 2005 (edited) As we are on the Ibanez factory tour today....here is link to Ibanez (J)-Custom shop. http://www.kurosawagakki.com/ibanez2.html Notice the same "Auschwitz" type furnaces over there. *Edit* Someone commented that furnaces might be for drying the wood blanks. Edited March 29, 2005 by RGGR Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slabbefusk Posted March 29, 2005 Report Share Posted March 29, 2005 Dude, if I could have all the wood they had stored there... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyle Cavanaugh Posted March 30, 2005 Report Share Posted March 30, 2005 Notice the same "Auschwitz" type furnaces over there. *Edit* Someone commented that furnaces might be for drying the wood blanks. ← Well I hope all it is is a wood kiln! I don't think there's too many Jewish people in Southeast Asia to start with. By making the comments he and I just made, we were not intent on hurting anyone's feelings and don't endorse Neo-Nazism; I don't at least. Anyways, that is some killer stuff! Shows you they aren't just taking a hammer and chisel and slapping something together! (although I totally knew that already) I think it'd make Fender and Gibson soil themselves! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slabbefusk Posted March 30, 2005 Report Share Posted March 30, 2005 Come on now RGGR, enough of these silly asian pictures, show us your progress now! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RGGR Posted March 30, 2005 Author Report Share Posted March 30, 2005 Hear, hear!!! Darn are you guys demanding. Okay, what have I been up to lately. 1. Primer body and headstock 2. Test fitted neck 3. Installed top nut. 4. Did test string-up to mark out exact location of tremolo. 5. Routed OFR-7 cavities (front and back) 6. Installed trem studs. Currently are working on templates for pick-up routes. Also waiting for both backplates (control cover and trem cover). Marked small irregularities (with black marker) on body to point out areas that need some more attention. (read: primer and sanding). Comfortable with routing so no major show stoppers there. Only bit of concern is drilling the fretmarkers and the tuner holes in headstock. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slabbefusk Posted March 30, 2005 Report Share Posted March 30, 2005 Tell me the cost of everything when your done so you can make me one . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RGGR Posted March 30, 2005 Author Report Share Posted March 30, 2005 (edited) Already have next project in the works. RG-7 QL RBB XL - RG-7 (27" scale, 24 frets) - Limba wings, quilted maple top - 5 piece laminated wenge/maple neck-through - Royal Brown Burst finish. - Trying to get my hands on Edge Lo Pro 7 trem - TZ-7/AN-7 or SD JB7/59-7 combo. Neck blanks are currently being cut and plained. Edited March 30, 2005 by RGGR Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slabbefusk Posted March 30, 2005 Report Share Posted March 30, 2005 Yeah those RGT's are classy. About long scale I would love to have one, my arms are humongous. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incarnation Posted March 30, 2005 Report Share Posted March 30, 2005 That RG looks stunning and XL neck is always good on 7-string guitar. Post pics immediately when you have some! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RGGR Posted March 30, 2005 Author Report Share Posted March 30, 2005 Post pics immediately when you have some! How about this for a start?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incarnation Posted March 30, 2005 Report Share Posted March 30, 2005 You...! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eddiewarlock Posted April 2, 2005 Report Share Posted April 2, 2005 I am not an Ibanez fan by any means ( Although i find RG's to be really pretty guitars!) but those factory pictures are jaw dropping, and your guitar looks great!! good luck! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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