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12-30-2004, 04:00 PM
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| ss.org Regular   Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Plano, TX Posts: 3,460
Real Name: Adam Main Seven: Elysian Guitars Sigma 7 Thanked: 10
 | the chronicles of a 7 string conversion... well, i had this old 94 RG470 body laying around... its been laying around for a long long long long time, and i decided i'd finally do something with it... initially i was just going to strip all the paint, give it a contoured neck heel ala the RG570 of the same year, and paint it... but i decided to go a little further than that... since it doesn't have the contoured heel, it makes it a good candidate for an AANJ... well i noticed something while i was checking out the body 1 day... the dimensions of the 6 string RG's are identical to the dimensions of the 7 string RG except for pickup routing, neck pocket routing, and trem routing... i realized if i routed the neck pocket to the same shape as my RG7421's and gave it an AANJ, i could make this body another 7 string... well i don't really like trems, never use em... so i think, if i route out the trem ala the instructions on project guitar, and fill the newly routed hole with alder, i can make it string thru body, and hopefully the alder that the bridge is mounting to will offset the tone of the basswood a little bit... so heres some progress pics...    i started routing the pups today... routed em to roughly the same spec as my RG7421... i also removed the chunk of wood between the neck humbucker and the old origional wizard neck...need to sand the edges of the pickup holes, smooth em out a little bit, but otherwise, all i got left to do is route the trem cavity... i'm going to use a coping saw to do the initial shape on the AANJ, and i'm going to start filing it from htere until it is satisfactory, then i'm going to smooth it all out with sandpaper... |
 
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12-30-2004, 08:38 PM
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| ss.org Regular Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Plano, TX Posts: 3,460
Real Name: Adam Main Seven: Elysian Guitars Sigma 7 Thanked: 10
| ok, made more progress today... heres some pics...      as u can see, the neck only has 3 screws holding it on, one hole didn't line up so i need to dowel it and redrill it... no biggy, will fix it tomorrow or saturday(got band practice tomorrow) |
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12-30-2004, 08:58 PM
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| Sanctity In Blasphemous Ruin • Super Moderator •  Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Florida Posts: 22,359
Real Name: Legion Main Seven: Loomis, C7HR, Giannini 7 Rig: Mesa Rectoverb 50 Thanked: 83
  | Gonna fill in the middle pickup or make there one, a la Universe? Glory and praise to Thee, Satan, on high, Where Thou didst reign, in Hell where Thou dost lie, Vanquished, silent, dreaming eternally. Grant that my soul some day rest close to Thee Under the Tree of Knowledge which shall spread Its branches like a Temple overhead. ~Charles Baudelaire http://www.myspace.com/impurity Brutal Skullfucking Death Metal |
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12-30-2004, 09:10 PM
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| ss.org Regular Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Plano, TX Posts: 3,460
Real Name: Adam Main Seven: Elysian Guitars Sigma 7 Thanked: 10
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i was thinking of leaving it... try something different... i don't have any guitars with more than 2 humbuckers heh... | |
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12-30-2004, 09:20 PM
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| Adminishredder • Site Admin •  Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Boston, Mass Posts: 25,765
Real Name: Mr. F. Johnson Main Seven: Sherman Custom Main ERG: Douglas 6ST Bass Rig: 2101 -> S160 -> Mesa Thanked: 546
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12-30-2004, 09:21 PM
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| ss.org Regular Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Plano, TX Posts: 3,460
Real Name: Adam Main Seven: Elysian Guitars Sigma 7 Thanked: 10
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12-30-2004, 09:25 PM
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| Mr. Negative Pants™   Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Greater Toronto Area, Canada Posts: 7,037
Main Seven: OMFG! EBMM JP7 Rig: GT6PowerBlockThiele Thanked: 31
| Heh. I would have waited until AFTER i'd got my hands on an extra neck before i started carving up the body. But hey, that's just me.  |
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12-30-2004, 09:27 PM
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| ss.org Regular Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Plano, TX Posts: 3,460
Real Name: Adam Main Seven: Elysian Guitars Sigma 7 Thanked: 10
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nah i don't got anything better to do, this keeps me entertained and busy lol! and gives me good experience before i go to Roberto-Venn School of Luthiery in August | |
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