RG520 Project

The Scumbuckler · #1 07-04-2009, 02:04 AM

Got a RG520 H/H body of ****. Cant really find much info on that particular model. The dude advertised it as a Japanese made Prestige. Just want to know if this is true and what pups and hardwarwe would have been installed?

Planning on doing a swirl-job on it with a ET custom neck. She'll be a long termer. Got a bit of swirling practise ahead of me. Any one here done one?

dgbaker33 · #2 07-04-2009, 11:54 AM

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Originally Posted by The Scumbuckler

Got a RG520 H/H body of ****. Cant really find much info on that particular model. The dude advertised it as a Japanese made Prestige. Just want to know if this is true and what pups and hardwarwe would have been installed?

Planning on doing a swirl-job on it with a ET custom neck. She'll be a long termer. Got a bit of swirling practise ahead of me. Any one here done one?

I thought a 520 was a 570 without the middle pickup? and possibly made from something other that Basswood.

Ive done a bunch of swirls...

marianozz · #3 07-04-2009, 03:46 PM

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Originally Posted by dgbaker33

I thought a 520 was a 570 without the middle pickup? and possibly made from something other that Basswood.

Ive done a bunch of swirls...

Yup, HH, mahogany... Not Prestige, but still a hell of an axe

The Scumbuckler · #4 07-04-2009, 08:27 PM

Spose it does'nt make much difference but what would be the country of origin?

Quote:I thought a 520 was a 570 without the middle pickup? and possibly made from something other that Basswood.

Ive done a bunch of swirls...

Cool. Direct me to your labours Good sir.

**Ayrton** · #5 07-05-2009, 12:52 AM

A 520 is a mahogany bodied guitar with a quilted veneer on top. The 520s were made in Japan and are of the same quality as any other MIJ Ibanez from that time.

The Scumbuckler · #6 07-05-2009, 06:13 AM

Its not a quilt top. So did they release a plain top 520? It seems to be a flat grey colour.

Ibateur · #7 07-05-2009, 11:07 AM

that's the RG520 indeed which is basswood. There were also RG520QS which had Quilted Sappele tops on a Mahogany back.

chrisgr · #8 07-05-2009, 11:28 AM

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Originally Posted by The Scumbuckler

Its not a quilt top. So did they release a plain top 520? It seems to be a flat grey colour.

The model is a RG520GP. Basswood body, gray pewter color, made in Japan circa 1998. You can see a pic if you got to Rich's Ibanez Rules website and find the 1998 catolog. It was before Ibanez started with the prestige series but the quality is the same.