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  1. 10pizza
    very, very neat
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    just a change to a double locking trem and a new top lock would already be a great improvement. Brass block is optional. Don't use them myself yet, happy with the standard blocks on my Floyds. good luck finding a proper quality replacement for the trem. Looks like you've got some good input here to look for a proper unit.
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    hi @Guillen , somehow I didn't see the pictures before. looks like your trem is heavily corroded. Next to that it isn't one of the best designs to start with possibly. here's a link to another page http://ibanez.wikia.com/wiki/SLT101 I agree with @curtisa here. Given the value of the guitar and the cost/work to fit an edge trem I'd advise to look at trems that have similar measurements and can be dropped in with no extra work required. question is: what are you looking to achieve? If you want to experiment on modding a guitar and don't mind spending some money then you can go for it. My advice would be to first get your hands on an edge or similar trem so you can see exactly how it will fit. You probably will need to install new studs for the anchors which may require filling up the existing studholes first. Possibly you'll need to do some routing as well to allow for a good floating setup. If you just want to improve the guitar with a better bridge/trem. Have a look at the trems Curtisa mentioned or alternatively look for a used Ibanez RG or S model with a better trem as advised as well in your thread over at Seymour Duncan: http://www.seymourduncan.com/forum/showthread.php?322464-Original-Edge-tremolo-on-Ibanez-S270-Korean
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    not sure what you're asking here. video what? have you checked out this page: http://ibanez.wikia.com/wiki/Edge it's got some specs and drawings as well that can help you out maybe.
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    I have an original Edge waiting to be installed in one of my projects. If you want me to measure some stuff just ask. They do show up on ebay etc., but usually quite expensive......
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    love the white with black, very classy and a great looking instrument. It looks very sharp
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    Congrats Andy!
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    Goed luck!
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    yes! thanks @Mr Natural! Spent 4,5 months in Nicaragua. Great experience. very nice country and a beautiful girl went back with us!
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    welcome back John great workshop you have there! Would love to have something like that myself.
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    In the mean time I scored a couple of Dimarzio pickups from an auction site for good price and I went through my cabinet for some leftover electronics. I had to order studs and bolts from Germany (meinl) as I didn't have them with the Edge trem I scored a few years ago. Man, this stuff is really overpriced..... Got to try making my own sometime. so here's the end result with specs: Ibanez R440 body with Ultra neck 250mm Radius with jumbo frets Dimarzio AT-1 humbucker and Dimarzio Fast Track pickups Ibanez Edge III trem 1 volume, 1 tone with High pass filter and Coil splitter as used on Ibanez JS series GHS .09 set of strings As this is a used guitar with mostly used hardware I'm ok with the end result. If I'm going to do a new-build with a spray-finish, I'll have to do a better job. Learned a lot from this one though to help me improve!
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    Next: polishing. I used 1000grit to wetsand, followed by 1200 grit. Again I found the clear coat to be too thin in places, so I stopped there and switched to machine polishing. most of the places it turned out really nice, but here's where I found out that I should have done a better job on the primer and next time get 2 cans of finishing spray at minimum. Especially at the horns the finish is just not smooth enough and in several places you see the 'orange peel ' effect. From a distance though it looks just fine so I should use it just in great venues with a stage distant from the crowd
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    next step: flat sanding, crowning and finishing of the frets under supervision of our daughter Isabel I use my dremel tool to cut the frets even with the fretboard. After that I use my angled file to file them at an angle.
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    My last finishing project I ended up with a clear coat being too thin, so this time I used 2 cans of clear spray lacquer and I let it cure for 2 weeks. In the mean time I started with refretting. I found out I already re-radiused the fretboard to 250mm so I could immediately start with the fret installation. Recently I acquired some tools from ebay from a shop in Greece called TMI. I got a fret-rocker, a sanding beam and a fret-press caul set which I used for this job. Previously I used my selfmade fretcaul holder, but this thing is much better! nice grooved cauls that make the job quite easy.
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    I sanded the body down after spraying the primer. I had to revisit a few places with some filler as well as the body dropped from the hanger .... After doing some more priming I sanded it down to a smooth top which looked perfect at the time for the final finish. I always wanted a neon-yellow guitar ( I predict a revival of 80's hair metal and neon-coloured guitars ! ) and I still had a can of neon-yellow spray paint available. Unfortunately I couldn't find a second can of the same colour/make so I had to do with just one. I've learned from spraying in the past to take it easy, and following Tundraman's tutorial went ok. Sprayed outdoor in my wood-store shed. Even wore a mask!
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    next step: primer I got a cheap can of spraying primer from a local budget store. It worked reasonably well, but major lesson learned: DON"T BE CHEAP ON PRIMER! I should have got me an extra can which I learned later on in the process...
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    next step: filling the middle pickup cavity. I used MDF wood to do this. Made a snug fit and glued it in. afterward I used filler a couple of times to get it smoothened out.
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    Time to get back to this topic. I still had my original Ibanez 440 body and neck lying around in my room. When I came back from Nicaragua early July I thought it to be nice to clean up my workspace and finish this project. Goals: keep cost low by using materials at hand Practice doing a spraycan finish with cheap paint with Tundraman's tutorial test new tools acquired from TMI (greece) Work needed: sand body to a refinishable state fill middle pickup cavity fill small dings/chips with filler and sand again spray primer, finish and clear lacquer refret the neck install used edge trem, tuners and electronics available in the following posts some pics with my comments/lessons learned attached in this post the body after initial sanding. The top still has the epoxy base layer on, the back doesn't. It was hell to remove it and with it came a lot of chips of wood, doing more damage to the body than good. so I decided to leave the rest of the epoxy layer and sand it smooth with the rest.
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    congrats @2.5itim ! great build and an awesome guitar!
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    great read! love the combination of that top with the back. Curious how it plays with the bridge that far on the body. good luck finishing
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    awesome job, great looking guitar, congrats!
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    awesome! that's something I'd like to play!
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    hey guys does anyone here provide their own cases/gigbags with guitars you sell? For my acoustic guitar project I'd like to get decent price/quality gigbags with my own logo on it. Anybody have any tips on suppliers?
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    update here: been here in Nicaragua sinds february and it looks like it will be august before we can head home.... Local authorities and bureaucracy...... anyway, I started a nice project here with a local guitar-builder. He'll be making a couple of cocobolo dreadnought guitars for me, which I'll finish at home and will sell under my own brandname Swel Guitars. these will be handpicked and handmade Cocobolo matching backs&sides with a Sitka spruce solid top. I'll do the radiusing, fretting, hardware (bridge, nut, tuners) install and finish myself. So I've got my work laid out for me for when I get back!
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    very neat @KempGuitars question on the 'black'veneer between the top and back: what did you use for that? going for something like that on my second build
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