Now ive gone over the top!!!! Crazy Modded RG550!!!11

[JimmyJ]

Hey Dudes

For about a year now i have had a dead fret on my RG550 on the 16th fret on the B. just a dead note.

so tonight, i was bored, and sick of modding strats :P so i thought id try to fix it....

welll

the idea in my head was to take some old frets from my older broken RG450 neck and retrofit them into the RG550 neck in the troubled spots.

so i did this, and it worked.

i fixed up my frets and they intonated and worked just fine, DIY fret success! i just rubber mallet`d them in there and it works a treat...

well i coulda stopped just there....

but no

i thought, well since i hardly play this guitar...LETS GO NUTS

i took out my dremmel tool and about an hour later the neck looked like this....



I scalloped the frets from the 15th onward....







BUT....Me not being a carpenter didnt realise how easy that maple neck burns,

unfortunately i did a nasty black burny thing on the 15th fret, so i coloured it in and made a nice little mouth... added some teeth and now i have a bad boy guitar! LOL






Just FYI

the guitar plays and sounds great, no fret buzz, the scalloped frets will take a while to get used to, but it sure is fun


Peace

Jim

[dangomles]

Men you are modding all over the place, im sure in a few weeks you'll start a thread called : "Swirled House"
Looks very cool, congratulations! enjoy it!

[Eddie88]

Hehe cool!

How do you think the scalloped frets are working? I very curious about the feel of it. Does it work at all with cords etc. ?

[JimmyJ]

lol i dont really play chords down that far (15th fret...) but its harder to slide imho, but i think after a bit of practice i can get real fast using these scallops

[JimmyJ]

and i think i went too deep at the 15th fret...
tomorrow night im gonna scallop from the 12th to the 15th, and call it a day

[Flobanez]

Cool.

[mi2tom]

Cool!!! I'm thinking doing one myself

[bammbamm]

I like the touch up, clever way to get around a booboo.

I have a 7620 fully scalloped, and I LOVE the way it feels.
I'm looking for a spare neck to scallop and put on my RG2027VV, just so I don't screw up a prestige neck. The hardest part is maintaining your intonation when playing chords, but you develop a lighter touch playing scalloped boards, so 2 things happen: you get faster, & you get a WICKED vibrato!

I really love the way it feels, and if you have a guitar you can live with doing the trial on, I say go for it. It is a great mod, and people think you're special because you can play on a scalloped board. Just look at Yngwie, he talks it up as if it were like brain surgery playing on one. (somehow, people buy into it)

Try it, you'll like it!