Sorry but I have to rant a bit
one of my clients has an ibanez RG550, one of the older ones with an EDGE trem, built in Japan. Nice and fine guitar. He paid 300$ for it (no case) and added a pair of evo's. He came to me with the following wish list
keep the evo's
add a blackout modular preamp
add an EMG Afterburner
add a texas special in the middle
add a passive/active switch
add a kill switch
make it playable because the frets are kinda dull and worn out.
I'm supposed to fix all of that in less than 5 hours. Sure, I'll do my best, but the thing is, for an active/passive switch I need
1: an 8pole switch (!)
2: a BIGGER cavity and since there's a limit due to the eff'n pickguard, no way that can fit. the battery for the afterburner and blackout modular already needs some routing...
The frets are completely worn out. You can use the frets as a bloody comb, that's how much they are dented. I kinda leveled them and polished them so he has a better playing instrument but c'mon...
but the top comment was: build in a push knob as a kill switch, like buckethead's, underneath the neck pickup.
Uhm... how?! That request was put in this friday, I work on saturday in the store for 11 hours straight and when I get off all stores are closed to buy the switch (cause I don't have it stock). Not to mention the extra work of having to route the guitar and pickguard to accomodate that switch.
Am I the loser here, or is the wish list just too extensive?
one of my clients has an ibanez RG550, one of the older ones with an EDGE trem, built in Japan. Nice and fine guitar. He paid 300$ for it (no case) and added a pair of evo's. He came to me with the following wish list
keep the evo's
add a blackout modular preamp
add an EMG Afterburner
add a texas special in the middle
add a passive/active switch
add a kill switch
make it playable because the frets are kinda dull and worn out.
I'm supposed to fix all of that in less than 5 hours. Sure, I'll do my best, but the thing is, for an active/passive switch I need
1: an 8pole switch (!)
2: a BIGGER cavity and since there's a limit due to the eff'n pickguard, no way that can fit. the battery for the afterburner and blackout modular already needs some routing...
The frets are completely worn out. You can use the frets as a bloody comb, that's how much they are dented. I kinda leveled them and polished them so he has a better playing instrument but c'mon...
but the top comment was: build in a push knob as a kill switch, like buckethead's, underneath the neck pickup.
Uhm... how?! That request was put in this friday, I work on saturday in the store for 11 hours straight and when I get off all stores are closed to buy the switch (cause I don't have it stock). Not to mention the extra work of having to route the guitar and pickguard to accomodate that switch.
Am I the loser here, or is the wish list just too extensive?