yes, new mod day...
well, this is quite a story.
i decided a while ago that i wanted my
rg2550z to look like a
777vbk. they are just the coolest thing ever. all black with green knobs, pups and vine. so, i went on my way and started acquiring some pieces to start the "project".
first i got some genuine ibanez green knobs and tip (big thanks to ibanezfreak777). then i found out they didn't fit on the shafts of my pots. so, off to rich to get some knurled-shaft pots. so i got them. then the final touch was the black pickguard (massive thanks to jeannie pickguards). my next goal is to get a paf pro, tone zone and maybe a red velvet (i think...) all in green installed, but that will take a while.
anyway, i've just spent the last 3 hours or so soldering and resoldering these damn wires to get the new pots installed. oh lord, how painful. i've never soldered anything on a guitar. wires came off, capacitors got left un-soldered...long story short it was a hassle. the thing is, now it's all set up, the volume knob works fine but the tone knob is really weird. it's kind of acting like a volume knob as well for some reason. it's not affecting the tone. i suspect i mixed a wire up somewhere. but at least the volume works. just no tone for now and there is now way i'm opening it all up again to try and fix it, not today.
also, i forgot to add, just to add to the dodgyness of the whole thing, i used aluminium foil as shielding stuck on with blu-tack and there is an old lamps wire used to connect the tone and volume pots
and the pics.
yes, my first feeble mod. not much to show, but i had to post it after what it's taken to just get it to this point. i think it looks amazing, sooooooo much better than the purple/black smokey pickguard that comes with it.
flame away!
