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Originally Posted by Sir Axeman
What exactly would be the difference between this(RG505) and the 550 model? Surely there must be something besides the model no?-there'd be no point otherwise.
Back in 1995 the RG550 came with a lo-Pro edge, cosmo chrome hardware and a wizard neck with rosewood board. In the aitumn of that year they introduced the RG505 in the "Fall Supplement". It had regular black hardware and the original Edge bridge as well as I believe a Wizard II neck profile.
It was seemingly an attempt to introduce an RG550 slightly lower down the line as the original RG550 had been in 1987 without all the refinements that had crept onto the RG550 by 1995.
By 1997 the RG550 had been phased out and the models available in this style were the RG550LTD with sharktooth inlay and colour matched mirror pickguards and Lo-Pro trems in Cosmo Black, and the RG505 with dot inlays, the original Edge bridge and a plain black scratchplate.
In 2000 the RG505 was discontinued and replaced by the RG550!!! which had gone back to the original maple board and original Edge trem albeit in a new powder coated finish.
So in truth there's very little actual difference between the RG505 and the RG550 we have today with the exception of the fingerboard wood and the colour of the trem and tuners.
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Originally Posted by Sir Axeman
Well what's your verdict on this guitar, and with a PU upgrade?
I love them, an absolutely cracking guitar, made even better by retrofitted pickups