Sunday, October 29, 2023

Ibanez RG570 MIJ Tinkering

Working on an RG570 Japan Ibanez that I bought as parts:


-refretted it nicely and slimmed the fretboard sides a bit + rounded the wood
-did a custom wood trussrod cover and also did the control cavity and jack in plates as well (added copper foil to the undersides)
-added a Schaller floyd and so I dremelled the cavity a bit but found a similar paint and it’s like it was never touched heh
-swapped the magnets between the Japanese Ibanez V7 and V8 pickups (the alnico from the bridge one is now on the neck, and the ceramic from the neck is now on the bridge) -> much better sound, BUT I swapped in the end to DiMarzio Gravity Storm, totally different ballgame, and also did a rewiring with a different schematic
-in the end I added a Titanium Alloy Nut made in Japan, which has a much better and tighter spacing from E to E for this redone neck and refret(also did a steel shim neck from scratch for the new nut)