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Sorry, lol.
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You should be able to access the wires if you carefully chisel some wood away round the hole - it's not in a structural area and won't be visible when it's done. Stripping the wire will be tricky, but some patience and a scalpel blade should get you there. Then solder on new wire and heatshrink over the joints.
If the LEDs are sticking up and it's bothering you, I would flatten them off using either wet and dry paper - working along the length of the wood grain so you don't scratch it up, it will need a bit of patience - or a small Dremel grinding wheel, then polish up. Flattening the housings shouldn't damage the actual LED element, they're fairly well down inside.
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Indeed...as @ICBM says, it shouldn't be too tricky to carefully remove enough wood in order to access the wiring.
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I'm sure there must be a spare neck floating about out there somewhere...
I'm pretty sure those humbuckers are PAF Pros, not V1s or V2s.
http://ibanez.wikia.com/wiki/RG550_(1987%E2%80%931994)
They've got them down as "USA designed" which may or may not have allowed "Dimarzio" to be used on the underside of the pickups. They could of course have been a replacement set of who knows what by the previous owner
I Need to think this through some more.
Fwiw, I also don't think these are v1 v2 types, I've had them b4 on another 550 I owned, they didn't say Dimarzio and they def didn't say made in USA. Also the seller said he put them in a few years earlier and had forgotten what they were but they were expensive ( which I just took as sales patter etc )
They are most likely PAF Pros. One could be a Fred or something but it wouldn't have black polepieces unless it was a custom order.
This is were pictures really help. Its clearly not DIY LED's put in a fretboard like the link I posted in the other thread.
I agree with the others now I have seen the pics, its much more likely to be a SIMS job. It won't have been cheap, but it doesn't add anywhere near that value either. It won't have taken a board replace to do it either
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Thus it makes me wonder why at least 3 LEDs were not drilled centrally through the dots. Only off by a mm but immediately apparent.
This is what drove me to the conclusion that it was semi pro diy....and not a £600+ Job !!
The main thing for me is playing it so its gonna be a stickers job until I get bored again and fancy spending dosh on either removal or repair.
Anyone know of quality fret stickers then, not dodgy eBay sellotape stuff ?
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