I bought this guitar on Ebay in 2000 and had it brought over to me from the USA. The guitar is about 12 years old, from around 1988-1990. It was stripped down, no paint or pickups. I painted the body and finished the top with the snakeskin print Some modifications were made to the original guitar which included:
• Neck heal was shaped and contoured.
• Neck (joint area) was reshaped to fit the reshaped heal.
• Middle pickup cavity was filled.
• Tone control holes were filled.
• Inlay was enhanced with abalone dots.
The guitar has a Seymour Duncan Distortion pickup in the bridge position and a Kent Armstrong Cool Rails pickup in the neck position, which is a really nice sounding pickup. The whole restoration project took about 4 weeks to complete. This guitar is very easy to play. The neck is an Ibanez Wizard, which is very thin. The sound pretty versatile as I wired the pickup with a lot of switching options. I use this guitar purely as a backup or for clean parts (because of the switching options).
Spec:
Body: Basswood
Neck: Maple
Fretboard: Rosewood (16 inch radius)
Neck scale: 25.5 inches
Pickups: Seymour Duncan Distortion in bridge position and Kent Armstrong Cool Rail in neck position
Bridge: Ibanez Edge
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