RG520 Project

[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?

[dgbaker33]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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

[Ibateur]

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

[chrisgr]

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.

[The Scumbuckler]

Yep. Thats it allright. Are'nt those catalogues great !?