Dayl's Thread of Rg Ressurection

[dayl]

Well, as I grow older and become more comfortable with the good things in life like referring to yourself in the third person, I figured it was time to finally get off my ass and make some progress on this bad boy.

I grabbed a couple sevens a two or so years back one was a player and t5his one was immediately stripped and pulled apart for a project. It has sat in a pile of project work untoched ever since.

Seeing as I was at a bit of a standstill with the strat build for various reasons, I decided to finish touching up/sanding/ and get an under coat on her.

Its been through a number of cosmetic changes and set ups in my mind... thank god I didn;t go a head with some of them


Here goes.. I hope to get it all done in the coming months.



RG 7421 Body (3 pce Basswood)
RG 7621 Neck (Mint)
Single SD Blackout pup
Black hardware with proposed graphite goodness.
White 3ply PG on White body.

Will keep the tone pot to round off the tone a little after my experience with my single pup mexi and reading reports here. The tone will be kept under the PG an accessed via back plate.

I can also report that Whiteknight (?) paints suck. The under coat was too thin, the nozzle had too much spread and it splattered

[xCaptainx]

FINALLY! I've had dibs on this for YEARS!

[dayl]

It's in the works now bro, will be mint.

[Pakehendrix]

Very nice dude.

[Basket Case]

Cool project dude!

[Jenesis]

Looks cool man, I like the white.

Also, have you ever owned a guitar you haven't pulled apart?

[jeremyb]

Awesome, I'd love a 7 string RG!!!

[dayl]

Also, have you ever owned a guitar you haven't pulled apart?

Yeah a red on black crackled finish Samick...

[Jenesis]

Sounds like a keeper.

[dayl]

Yay,

Polished the frets and cleaned up the FB ... I had nothing more constuctive to do at the time



The neck is mint. 1st Fret has two tiny pin pricks of wear and apart from that is mint. It was all mint until I put a couple lil dings and scratches in the back...... they will get sorted when it gets sanded back

[dayl]

Thread name change to lump the others in.

Just finished giving two of the RG's a sex change over the weekend, give em some balls.

Floyd trem front and rear cav's blocked and leveled on RG 550 Hard tail conversion and RG partso MIDI Synth Guitar.

Managed to get a couple coats of primer on the MIDI Gat's body.

[critter01]

cool project Dayl,great work.i was just wondering what the wood is that you used to fill the trem cavs and how did you mount them in there? glue and screw??.cheers

[jeremyb]

cool project Dayl,great work.i was just wondering what the wood is that you used to fill the trem cavs and how did you mount them in there? glue and screw??.cheers

+1!!

[Bg]

You fitting an GK3 in there mate? I've got the cable pinouts somewhere which makes it much easier/nicer - you mount the pup upside down so the cable comes from the bottom - dismantle the big white plug, poke it through a nice neat little hole then wire the pole pieces in reverse.

Then drill 15 holes for the volume, blend, patch up/down, led, kitchen sink.... Be fine on a normal sized guitar but a PITA on a cricket bat.

[dayl]

cool project Dayl,great work.i was just wondering what the wood is that you used to fill the trem cavs and how did you mount them in there? glue and screw??.cheers

Thanks mate.

I simply asked Ash for something close to basswood flavour. It wasn't too important for the MIDI Gat (the green/primed one) as it is already a 5pce body and will be used primarily for midi, will have a single EMG (or like) active pup in the bridge pos if I ever need the gat on. For the 550, it was a little more important and I used the Kahikatea, I forget the other... maybe I just got thatback to front
In terms of filling... Basically, the cavs were routed.. routed a bit bigger (as the blocks were) so I could have a decent base for the glue. the cavs had to make for a tight fit so that the sides could be glued also. I used extra bond Aryldite, apply as norm, thought about screws but they aren't needed, there is no way the blocks will budge. The top and bottom are glued to each other also. The top of the blocks were then routed down to a managable level. Once all level, a Vee bit was used to route a canal between the block/body for filler so that all is smooth an joins are not visible. Its all prety bullet proof I'm hoping... I took my time to let all stages settle.

You fitting an GK3 in there mate? I've got the cable pinouts somewhere which makes it much easier/nicer - you mount the pup upside down so the cable comes from the bottom - dismantle the big white plug, poke it through a nice neat little hole then wire the pole pieces in reverse.
Then drill 15 holes for the volume, blend, patch up/down, led, kitchen sink.... Be fine on a normal sized guitar but a PITA on a cricket bat.

Yeah mate, I've got a GK GT Kit which is basically what you find in the roland ready Fenders except it's black. The above is a little confusing for me as I hav'nt really studied the installation side too much yet , But its all getting thrown in aPG with a one Vol Hum in the bridge to keep things neat.

It's one of these: