Tiago Sarturi

hi... i want to swirl a black pickguard from a Ibanez RG on the black+white+red colors... i know that oil paints will not stick to plastic, i'm wondering about those plastic paints on spray cans (spray some on a little can and then drop on water) or to prime the pickguard and use some puliurethane paint... but i reallt don't know how these 2 paints will float or work nice on "boraxed" water??? any ideia??? anybody already did that???

Where can i find to buy on internet (sending internationally) the Schaller Sure-Claw... This "toy" is very good for fast and accurate setup of Floyd Systems. You only need a allen wrench instead of those screws, and the claw are always in the right angle... Setup on floyd are not a "stable" job, so this might easy a little Schaller sure-claw HARD TO FIND... any ideia where to buy it... please tell me.. Thanks!!!

Yes! I don't know if these come apart so you can get to the guts of them, but is so. you could lightly "tin" them with solder, this can help to kind of re-plate the contacts...but it will wear out again. Sometimes, you can get an extended life out of them if you can bend the hot "tip" spring thing in a bit. The hot tip contact is like a spring that holds your plug in, over time the pushing and pulling out of the plug will bend the spring out. If you can push it back in with a thin screwdriver (or if it comes apart even better) then you will get a surer contact and the spring will push the jack over to the side making a better contact with the ground portion too. Best option is to get a new one...if you can! pete Mine is switchcraft, i don't think it's not good. So the bad contact of the ground part is because the hot part lost it's streng and the plug are a little loose on the middle? i'l try to push it back with a hard wire with a bend tip...

the jack part could be incorporated together on the switch, so to do the mods and alternative connections it's just change the male lugs inside the Plug part incorporate on the pickup wires...

few days back i was wondering why guitar makers don't do a standard connection between electronic parts of the guitar, so to change the pickups you could use a plug like this.. Would be good if someone just test with right tools if there will be lost of any gain using this kind of connection. I know that solder is always the best option but there are really good plugs in the computer world that are proof fail too, and let's say for a musician that didn't find the right pickups or parts you could just go to a store and test 20 pickups on a day...

Hi... i have a barrel closed JACK like the ones on some ibanez guitars, like these one: When i get bad contact on it, i just insert a tubed piece of sandpaper in and out few times just to renew the contact and it's okay. (i almost never have to do this) But now the bad contact it's on the sleeve part of the plug with the internal part of the JACK. Very strange, to solve that i'm just drop a loose piece of aluminum paper just to make the JACK and PLUG a tight connection. Any idea how to solve this anormal bad contact????

I don't know, the links got those "...." on the filename, very strange. Here's the dimarzio alternative 4 pole 5 switches wiring to special 5 way switches from ibanez: http://img357.imageshack.us/img357/1368/2h...eep1112hso5.gif But now i've bought a normal "fender like" 4 pole 5 way switches and the guy who sold me gave me a page showing the diferences between the dimarzio and fender 4 pole 5 switches, i'm think i'm on my way i think... http://www.geocities.com/guitarwiring/multipoleoptions.htm I just need to find a way to redraw and understand this dimarzio wiring and change the right lugs (maybe one or two) to use the fender switch....

Can anyone tell me the finish preparing to do this? To Swirl over a existing finish using it as background??? I know that it need a little sanding so the swirl paint can glue, but i need instructions and number.. Thanks!!!

I've been wondering about something quite similar! In most, if not all of the tutorials I've read the paint is being applied to the body on the downward stroke, ie. as you're submersing the body. You then have to clear an area in the water in which to remove the body, to avoid applying more unwanted paint. I'm wondering how it would work if you submersed the body first, then put the paint into suspension in the water, and then pulled the body upwards through it, so that the paint is applied as the body leaves the tank. I think this is basically the same as your second idea? Gonna have to break out the dipping tank and some wood scraps methinks! DJ What i would do... I should put a screw only on strap button hole of the right side of the body (fitting screw), dive the guitar underwater and leave it alone underwater with a fake neck holding on the side.. (the screw only serves to don't drop the guitar directly on the bottom). Add the color, do the swirl and push the guitar out slowly. Seems very working to me. Of course you just could call a friend to hold the body when you drop those paints.... I don't like the idea of diveing a guitar body under water, but swirl worth it even if damage. Maybe people dive the body after ad the colours to minimize the time that the body will be under pressure of the water, but a don't think this should a major problem with a well sealed body....

i just need water tank + borax and black + clear oil paints swirled on the surface???

Hi everyone. I'm buying a Body of a RG 320 FM AM in excelent condition and want to make some nice look paint on it. This RG looks like this [url="http://www.ibanez.co.jp/products/images/eg2008/RG320DXFM_AM_1P_01.gif" I have the full set of Black Hardware to install on this body and i'm thinking to do a light black paint only swirl over this amber naked wood finish. I want some ideas before i destroy the guitar or anything. It would work??? (i never saw a swirl with a "naked wood finish" under it) ...I was wandering here about how it would end, i think it would end like a tiger hauahua i don't know about this, maybe i should do a heavy black swirl to be more like the contrast i want from "classic instrument paint finish" on the 320FM to the "modern killer abstract" from the Swirl guitars...

I'm just starting to to read tutorials to do a swirl on a body of mine, and i'm seeing people talking about the trouble of when you have to take the guitar of the water tank full of paint. I'm a newbie but i have two ideas... If i use a very large tank so i pour paint on one side and remove the guitar from the other with clear surface??? If i dive the guitar before add the colour (i just want one swirled color over my normal finish) and them push it out slowly???

any non conventional (there's a lot) wiring and pickup uses need special switches and it's very hard to just find the right one and i need to "improvise". Someone who are familiar which switches can give me a help??? I want to do this wiring http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/4580/rg2620egg7.gif but it's very hard to find and i moved forward to dimarzio and they gave a new diagram using their EP1112 multipole switch that look like this http://img357.imageshack.us/img357/2hum1vo...eep1112hso5.gif and again is very hard to find (i'm paying with Paypal and need it shipped to Brazil)... Now i'm looking for the superswitches (5 way 4 pole) like these: http://www.allparts.com/store/electr...00,Product.asp http://www.guitarelectronics.com/pro...er_Switch.html I need 2 infos: The EP1112 from dimarzio are exact the same poles from the superswiches??? Anyone have a diagram to the wiring i want using the Superswitches that are easy to find??? Thanks for any help!!!