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Maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaannnnnnnnnnnnn  :tard:
Ebay ALWAYS manages to get me in trouble and buy something I didn't need but just couldn't pass up for the price..
I just snagged an Ibanez RG prestige body for 15$  :tard:

It's got some chips/gouges out of the body and BADLY damaged paint but it's nothing thant can't handle some filler and new paint.  :icon_tongue:
I would post a pic but I can't find the listing anymore, but as soon as it comes in I'll get one up.

Any ideas on what I should do with it?  :hello2:
 
I gotta admit--for $15, you did well. Now...what to do with it.....at that price, you can afford to experiment a little. Personally, I'd take the time and do up a baritone guitar. You can always change it back with some work if you ever tire of it, and if you're into playing slide, a baritone suprisingly gives you an absolutely wicked sound.
 
Congrats on the find! I agree that eBay is the Devil, since sometimes you find stuff you can't afford NOT to buy.

Since the wood-fill type prep work is done, I say you SWIRL it!

Box of borax, some paint, and a bucket of water.

DO IT!!!

 
I was thinking about converting it to a hardtail... I think that would be fun and cool. some kinda string through bridge. :toothy12:
 
hardtail swirl! I am all for this plan (It may have to do with my recent falling in love with Wizard Necks.)

I know. for a fact, I will one day swirl something. Quite Possibly the Iceman... I wonder if I can do a Monkey Grip on an Iceman... there is so much wood there... there has to be a way.
 
line6man said:
JamesL said:
I was thinking about converting it to a hardtail... I think that would be fun and cool. some kinda string through bridge. :toothy12:
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BLASPHEMY!
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hwy dude, any one tell you hair metal is dead?
Hard tails are in
 
Jusatele said:
line6man said:
JamesL said:
I was thinking about converting it to a hardtail... I think that would be fun and cool. some kinda string through bridge. :toothy12:
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BLASPHEMY!
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hwy dude, any one tell you hair metal is dead?
Hard tails are in
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Say that to Mattias IA Eklundh :D http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWXn2HYPYC0
 
I definatley think a hardtail, baritone, swirl-finished guitar setup for slide would be great. You sould do that. :blob7:
 
JamesL said:
Maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaannnnnnnnnnnnn  :tard:
Ebay ALWAYS manages to get me in trouble and buy something I didn't need but just couldn't pass up for the price..
I just snagged an Ibanez RG prestige body for 15$  :tard:

It's got some chips/gouges out of the body and BADLY damaged paint but it's nothing thant can't handle some filler and new paint.  :icon_tongue:
I would post a pic but I can't find the listing anymore, but as soon as it comes in I'll get one up.

Any ideas on what I should do with it?  :hello2:
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tie it to the bumper of your car and drive around the block twice
 
It looks like someone either hand-sanded it with 60-grit and gave up, or they ran out of sandpaper and used a brass bristle brush. I'm doing a restoration job on a strat knockoff I bought a while back, and when I posted the pics, someone suggested clear-coating it with the finish knocked down after I had hit the finish on the front of it down with 150-grit. If you use 220, 280 or even high-grit wet-or-dry sandpaper like 400 or 600, you could get a really smoth effect with bare wood showing wherever the finish may have been a few microns higher than in other spots. If you do that and then hit it down with a layer or two of polyurethane, you could get the rustic, relic look and still have something smooth enough to show that you did indeed finsih it.
 
AGWAN said:
jay4321 said:
I'd leave the finish too.

And no more swirls, it's pretty played out.
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THAT'S AN OPINION!  :sad1:
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Yes.
I've seen relatively few swirl finishes out there, but either way, it's ALWAYS a unique finish, because no two guitars are ever the same.

I say yes to the swirl and a violent NO to hardtail bridges.
 
Don't feel bad about buying this. I have one search saved on my auction, and one search only, "guitars, junk" I'm always combing the junk listings looking for that right piece. A few years back I bought a Charvel Randy Rhodes V, the small body like the Jackson, for like 30 bucks. All it needed was a little TLC and she was just fine. I fixed her up and gave her to one of my students here at school, he's a huge RR fan.
MULLY
 
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