UV Mods - Need some questions asnwered.

[30yroldpig]

Hi Guys

Well what I plan on doing will probably be considered sacriligious to most UV fans...but here it goes anyways.

1- I would like to replace the mirrored pick guard with a plain black one, same width, same size.

2- Since I never use the center pick-up, I would like to remove it.

So here is my dilemma: where can I find a nice black pick-guard, that it will fit perfectly on my UV. Is it possible to find one that doesn't have a center single coil hole?

If so and I remove the single-coil, what happens then to my 5-way selector switch. Will I have to swap it for a 3 way? Or can I keep the 5-way without any problems?

Thanx

[Project Guitar]

You can get the Pick Guard at Jeannie's as for the switch unless your planning on a custom wiring job it will have an off possition with no signal where the single coil use to be.....

[shawn]

it doesnt HAVE to be an off position -- wire it like a 7620

[steve]

Shawn,

The RG7-620 uses a special switch - the connections that are made as you sweep through the five positions are not the same as those made with a standard 5-way.
... The result would be (from neck to bridge) Neck/Neck split (single)/Nothing/Bride split (single)/Bridge.

It would require either one of Ibanez's switches, or a 3rd party one like the Megaswitch or Dimarzio Multipole or Yamaha 4-pole switches to accomplish the RG7-type wiring.

[rickboot]

The 7620 switch is not different. What is different is how it is wired. You should be able to convert the UV to 7620 type switching.

Rick

[30yroldpig]

Where can we find wiring diagrams for this mod then? I like the 7620 option!

[butch]

The wiring diagrams can be accessed from Ibanez.com.

Cheers,
Butch

[30yroldpig]

thanks!