My dad bought me an RG conversion on **** for x-mas. It is already swirled. The lion's claw is kinda messed up and there is no jem input. It also needs a clear coat. I am wondering if there is anything I can do to fix the input or lions claw without having to refinish the body. I am also wondering if anyone knows of a good tutorial on clear coating.
There's a tutorial to painting a guitar at reranch.com. The part on clearcoating is included, of course. I followed this when I painted my strat resinator plywood guitar (before selling it off for parts), albeit with different type of paint.
Its pretty cool. It just needs a clear coat. Thanks for the info on painting that helps quite a bit. I would just like a more accurate lion's claw. I am wondering if there is a way to re route it and then hand paint the lions claw, or paint it a solid color w/o it looking too bad.
You could reroute it (with all the associated risks), and then hand paint it using one of the colors of the swirl, so it won't look too bad. If it doesn't look too bad, with the hardware on it, then just clear coat it.
Well looking at it, when you put in a EDGE trem, it will cover most of the Lion Claw, I would just suggest clear coating it and put it together, its not ever going to be perfect, even the Monkey Grip looks to big.. its a RG converson.. well good luck..
That's a very nice swirly thing. The swirl in my opinion hides the defect. If, when you install the trem, the issue affects playability, then take it to a proper wood guy.
Otherwise, I would agree with bluealien, just clearcoat it, install the hardware, and off you go.
Nice catch "Ibateur", it does look like is routed for a TRS, so "magkid45", it looks like you will have to get a TRS, a Lo Pro will not fit. The body must be from a 470 or a lower model number.
First things first, you have to confirm the route. Compare it against the multitudes of pictures on the web of an Edge route and see if it is indeed different.
I believe it can be routed, but that's gonna damage the swirl and will not be the best looking thing on the planet. I think the project guitar site has a conversion tutorial.
Other option would be an OFR trem which wouldn't need additional routing, but will leave some gaps. Don't get a Lo-TRS yet as it isn't the best performing trem we know.
Does the neck pocket show any model number? I guess it would be under the primer coat.
no it doesn't. I test fitted the lo pro and it doesn't match up. Sits on the body a bit. Would an original edge work? You said OFR aren't they the same dimensions?
What is the performance difference between the low pro and OFR? I was thinking about routing it and painting the new correct lion's claw and trem cavity black. Looking for some input on how people think it would look. Also, what single coil should I buy. I can't decide. I have 2 paf pro's from an original jem in for the guitar. Looking for something to compliment them.
I am worried about the route not being deep enough for pulling the bar up. But, I think I am going to pick up an OFR and try it out and just put my lo pro on ****.
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