RG question, pickup config's

littlegreenman · #1 11-25-2002, 10:05 PM

Hey guys, I was asked an RG question by a friend of mine and I don't know the answer LOL,

what models of RG's (edge or lo pro edge equipped) were available in just a H-H pickup config? 6 string.

Trying to stay with the less expensive models. no CST's LOL
thanks in advance

jeff l · #2 11-25-2002, 10:33 PM

Do you mean the 520? I hope I'm not horribly misunderstanding your question here. lol

littlegreenman · #3 11-25-2002, 10:34 PM

was that the only one? if so, thank you very much, I know that some of the prestige and J customs are H-H, I just wasn't sure what, if any in the 5XX series had that config.

ShredHead42 · #4 11-26-2002, 03:21 AM

the RG620x has HH, plus the peizo!

jono · #5 11-26-2002, 06:50 AM

There's been the RG220 320 and 420 but non of those have had the edge or Lo-Pro Edge trem. There's been the RG520 both in a solid colour and with a quilted top. The RG620 has been vailable to the world market for 5 or so years but only with a quilted top, and now there's the RG620X with the double edge bridge.

Globbits · #6 11-26-2002, 09:53 AM

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Originally Posted by jeff l

Do you mean the 520?

In Total Guitar they had a review of a RG520 with H-S-H. Is the H-H RG the mahog one, and the H-S-H the basswood? Or am I just

?

jono · #7 11-26-2002, 10:21 AM

Well I'm never sure of the accuracy of Total Guitar.

This month they had a picture of the guys from Warrant with a transcription of Cherry Pie. (My Girlfriend's sister is called Cherry so this song is kind of a family in joke... anyway...) The caption said something like "24 fret guitars and spandex are out in force" above a picture of Erik Turner using a 22 fret RG Custom with the fretboard clearly in view. I think Joey Allen also tended to use 22 fretters too, he certainly is in the 92 Ibanez catalogue.

Anyway after that digressions there... The RG520 has had and if Ibanez stick to their current nomenclature will always have a twin humbucker pickup configuration, just like the RG320, RG420 RG620 and even the RG3120. The RG570 has a H-S-H pickup config, justlike the RG 470, RG670 and RG770.

the number doesn't usually dictate the body wood, that's usually independent of the number and sometimes is noted by extra letters after the guitars number.

A few years ago there was an RG570MH a mahogany RG570, where the regular one is basswood. Currently the RG520QS is a mahogany bodies/sapele topped guitar, but I believe the RG520 was available in basswood in a solid colour without a quilted top.