Here’s a lovely guitar, just not behaving properly, needs a little work. The first thing is the bridge. The trouble with the wooden bridge is that intonation is always a bit of a compromise. The “Tune-o-matic” option means each string can be adjusted separately. Since it’s a floating bridge the tape is there just so […]
Tag: Ibanez Electric Guitar
Ibanez – Pickup swap and new nut
A fairly simple job, swap the pickups for a pair of “Bare Knuckles” and, while I’m at it, put in a Bone nut. First of all I need to take out all the old wiring. The old pickup was coil tapped but the customer doesn’t want to bother with the new one so I need to […]
Ibanez Floyd Rose
Floyd Rose Trems’ can be a pain sometimes. For some reason this guitar sounds out of tune at various points up and down the neck. The intonation seems OK so I’m not entirely sure what’s wrong. Since the owner doesn’t really use the trem’ I’m going to fit a couple of blocks in place to hold […]
7 String Ibanes GIO- wonky neck
This proved to be an odd one. I’ve always rated Ibanez very highly, if you’re looking for a starter guitar you can’t do much better than a second hand Ibanez. This one proved to be a little more troublesome though…. At first thought it had a couple of high frets at the top end… but […]
Ibanez Blazer re-fret
Now that’s a worn set of frets! Might just get away with dressing them, but then they would be very very low.. Rather than that, I’m going to replace them with new ones.Out with the old…Putting a slight bend into the new fret-wire. Gently tap the new wire into place… and trim the spare end. […]
Ibanez – New Scratchplate
Quite a nice guitar, just been a little damaged… Can’t really fix that, but I know of a firm that’ll make me a new one. While I’m at it, the customer wants the new one in Mint Green rather, than another black one.The parts swapped, ready to fit to the guitar.I’m going to remove the protective […]
Ibanez Bass – tidy up
Another great Bass. Seen some action so needs a bit of a tidy up. It would be a shame to do too much though, it’s got it’s age and use written all over it. Something I hate are the new “Road Worn” guitars but this one’s got that way from use. There were some black […]
Very Green Ibanez!
Quite a long job this one, been on the go for a couple of weeks. The customer wanted a really nice setup, which really ment a fret dress before he had the body re-painted. I though it was a bit daft to do the setup twice so ended up pulling it apart and doing the […]