Hybrid Axe

[MedianMusic1]

Just finished my summer project on Sat. July 24, 2010...

Ibanez RG replacement body by Legacy One Guitars. Fender Strat replacement neck by Warmoth. A few modifications required. I sanded-thru some areas on the body... gave it a vintage look... Plays and sounds great!

Body:
1-piece Mahogany finished with Duplicolor filler/primer, Duplicolor Perfect Match deep jewel green metallic acrylic lacquer paint, and clear coated with SprayMax 2K urethane. Wet sanded with 400 - 1500 grit then buffed by hand using 3M Perfect-it II.

Neck:
Maple/Rosewood. The back of the neck was finished with Behlen's Pure Tung Oil. Standard thin, compound radius, SS6115 frets, abalone inlays.

Hardware:
Floyd Rose Pro tremolo and locking nut, Sperzel locking tuners, Duncan Custom SH-5 (bridge) and Jazz Model SH-2 (neck) pickups, Schaller strap locks, GHS Infinity Steel strings.

The pic below highlights the green in the abalone inlays. These inlays always gave off a green tint even without the trees in the foreground:

 

[rapfohl09]

Wow. This is an AWESEOME build  :icon_thumright:

You do great work man!

 

[JaySwear]

looks awesome! i said it before when you posted about starting this project, and i'll say it again now... the RG looks really good with a strat headstock!

really like the body color too.

 

[Cagey]

That thing looks sorta brutal. I can imagine Steve Vai or Ted Nugent wankin' and crankin' on that baby, makin' it scream bloody murder. Except it's green, so... I don't know... save the whales?

 

[Nando Vallart]

Cool!

 

[MedianMusic1]

... Except it's green, so... I don't know... save the whales?

Thanks, but it's a mere coincidence that I happen to build a hybrid guitar and that I ended up painting it green. I know the contemporary usage of these terms suggests that I would be into saving the whales/planet but this is not the case. I painted it green only because I thought it would match the green-tinted abalone inlays and the rosewood fretboard...

Wow. This is an AWESEOME build. You do great work man!

Thanks. It's not my best finishing job but will be my favorite build (Ibanez body with a Warmoth neck) for a long time...

... the RG looks really good with a strat headstock!

Thanks. I saw another member here do a Strat body with an Ibanez neck build which looked really cool and so thought I would try the opposite...

 

[Cagey]

... Except it's green, so... I don't know... save the whales?

Thanks, but it's a mere coincidence that I happen to build a hybrid guitar and that I ended up painting it green. I know the contemporary usage of these terms suggests that I would be into saving the whales/planet but this is not the case. I painted it green only because I thought it would match the green-tinted abalone inlays and the rosewood fretboard...

No worries - I was just being facetious for the sake of fun. I certainly never thought you were trying to promulgate any kind of brain-dead political agenda through the use of guitar paint colors. <grin>

If I worried about that kind of stupidity, I'd be on your ass for using wood, steel, copper, and plastic to build guitars, all of which require a great deal of input from oil and the depletion of natural resources in order to be available,

 

[Death by Uberschall]

Very nice.

 

[Super Turbo Deluxe Custom]

That turned out well.  Don't know why I'm surprised, your other 2 did as well.  I think one of the neatest things is that it's basically an Ibanez with a Floyd.  I've heard Ibby fans in other forums itch for a Floyd on an Ibby.  The Edge II is darn close and might as well be as far as I'm concerned, but doesn't interchange as far as I know.  What do other Ibanez fans think?

Oh, i checked out the site where the body came from.  How can you tell which ones accept Fender necks?  The Reb Beach looking one caaught my eye, but I'm not a trem guy.  Can they do hardtails?

 

[exaN]

That guitar is awesome man, maybe even awesomer if it had a maple fretboard but that's just me :toothy10:

 

[MedianMusic1]

How can you tell which ones [Ibanez bodies] accept Fender necks?

Thanks. A body with a square heel neck pocket (I don't know about the AANJ) will accept Fender necks with one modification... Since the square heel on the Ibanez body is 1/8" shorter in length you'll need to order your Warmoth neck without mounting holes. Other modifications I needed to make to the body are:

• Widen the pickup routes to accept Duncans.
• The holes for the FR Pro tremolo studs were a little too wide so I used Loctite instant mix 2 part epoxy to glue them in. I also glued in a short, 3/8" wide dowel for the tremolo studs to sit on.
• Replace the standard tremolo block with the shorter one.
• The deep panel mono input jack is too long for the body's angled input jack hole. So I used 2 nuts to secure the jack at the appropriate depth.

You can ask him to customize the body. He omitted the monkey grip, lion claw, and control holes for me. Here's his ebay store:
http://myworld.ebay.com/deep6guitars/

Good luck...

 

[Strat Avenger]

I wanna put an Ibanez neck that I have, on a Strat body.

 

[MedianMusic1]

I wanna put an Ibanez neck that I have, on a Strat body.

Someone on this forum did that. He just had to remove the neck pickup to accommodate the 24 fret Ibanez neck. I don't remember if he needed to do anything else. But it looked great...