What exactly is this model?

JiMoSiTY · #1 03-23-2003, 08:57 PM

Is this a 770 or one of those odd model 550s?

Can anybody tell me exactly what model this is??

Thanks!

dcord · #2 03-24-2003, 12:34 AM

RG550LTD

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Timanator · #3 03-24-2003, 12:42 AM

Looks like a early 90's RG 750's.

Shark tooth inlays with pickguard and H-S-H pickups.

JiMoSiTY · #4 03-24-2003, 07:05 AM

Yeah, well -- those are the two that I'm not sure which it is.
Can somebody else help here?

Timanator · #5 03-24-2003, 10:56 AM

Looks like a RG750 to me.

http://www.ibanezrules.com/catalogs/us/1990/rg7.jpg

Stumpywa · #6 03-24-2003, 11:13 AM

looks like a 770, but I don't remember a 3rd control knob on it......

Timanator · #7 03-24-2003, 12:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Stumpywa

looks like a 770, but I don't remember a 3rd control knob on it......

Looks like it's added, it's not even in line or spacing with the Volumn and Tone. 770 has no pickguard.

**jono** · #8 03-24-2003, 03:20 PM

The RG750 and RG550LTD were very similar guitars. Both were available in the black finish, both had pickguards, and both had the bound, sharktooth-inlayed neck.

The RG750 of course had the neckplate with a heel and the RG550LTD had the AANJ.

The RG550LTD also had a mirror pickguard and cosmo black hardware, while the RG750 had a black pickguard and, as far as I remember, came at one time or another with both black and cosmo black hardware.

The telltale here to me is that it's an RG750 as I can't really see the neck joint BUT...the bridge pickup seems to have IBZ/USA style writing on it which predates the RG550LTD which had V7/V8 humbuckers.

JiMoSiTY · #9 03-24-2003, 03:33 PM

So, I believe it's now an RG750, but do you know if it ever came with the two tone controls or could it have been an aftermarket job?
I haven't received the guitar yet, so I don't know if it's been modded.

**jono** · #10 03-24-2003, 04:02 PM

As far as I know the RG750 only ever came with the standard master tone and master volume so I think this one has been modified.

Timanator · #11 03-24-2003, 04:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jono

The RG750 and RG550LTD were very similar guitars. Both were available in the black finish, both had pickguards, and both had the bound, sharktooth-inlayed neck.

The RG750 of course had the neckplate with a heel and the RG550LTD had the AANJ.

The RG550LTD also had a mirror pickguard and cosmo black hardware, while the RG750 had a black pickguard and, as far as I remember, came at one time or another with both black and cosmo black hardware.

The telltale here to me is that it's an RG750 as I can't really see the neck joint BUT...the bridge pickup seems to have IBZ/USA style writing on it which predates the RG550LTD which had V7/V8 humbuckers.

Wow, great info!!!

Are you and Rich the same person???

**jono** · #12 03-24-2003, 05:23 PM

LOL - Nope, I'm just a gifted amateur with a stack of catalogues and a photographic memory

What exactly is this model?

Hmm.

RG750