I pesonally think, that if you can do it, it is worth it. You could choose any color of paint you wanted, and you could accessorize it the same way too. Again, if you have the skill, why not?
Dear NightSerpent, Please listen to this guy, He's talking sense !!!Andelusion said:nightserpent, after a good deal of reading on this forum you'll find out that a Jem is more or less a high end RG with a routed monkey grip and lions claw.
It sounds to me like your best bet would be to get an RG body from e-b-a-y, strip it down and refinish it/paint it or do whatever you want to get put your personal stamp on it
You may be able to find a Jem neck on e-b-a-y (the Jem7VWH necks are my favourite - the one which you'll see Vai with most of the time, it has the vine all the way down the neck) if not then click on the 'LGM' banner at the top of this page (it's red and orange) to see quotes for neck linlays, Jeremy (who is on these forums as 'littlegreenman') does excellent inlays to your specifications, drop him an email.
Once you've got the body and neck sorted, then you can start looking at the hardware (Pickups, bridge, tuners, etc). The Jem7VWH model (white, gold hardware which Vai uses the most) he as lo-pro edge bridge (the production models do anyway) and DiMarzio Evolution pickups, the bridge and pickups can be purchased at many different places, best do some research![]()
The Jem7VWH model (white said:I suppose I'm just niggling, but, Vai's Evo has a black original edge trem on it, but you are right that the production 7vwh's have gold hardware. Also, I'm doing a somewhat similar RG to Jem project, and even if it doesn't turn out as well as a production or custom model, there is still such a great sense of accomplishment and pride in building your own instrument. Good luck with it all.
Galen.
Hence why i said 'The production models do anyway' so dunno why you needed to mention itgemm012 said:I suppose I'm just niggling, but, Vai's Evo has a black original edge trem on it