Modding my Ibanez RG1570

jaymenon

I've had a lot of fun with this one, which I picked up looking like this:
https://i.imgur.com/dxrsJ7x.jpg

Step one was to remove the pickguard and also the tone control after which it look like this. I was also surprised to find that the DiMarzio tone zone was connected in parallel - but it sounded good.
https://i.imgur.com/ahRKTR0.jpg

Finally installed a black pickguard and also a push-pull volume pot with a 0.1nf capacitor along the shunted serious connection to ground for single coil simulation.
https://i.imgur.com/9b6yIFi.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/nvI75jk.jpg

The only problem is that now I’m going to need to learn some Van Halen shred type songs - and how I wish I looked as cool as this guitar does.

Dave_Mc

That's interesting, it has a pickguard but it seems to be rear-routed, too. Did it originally come with a pickguard? EDIT: I'm going to guess it didn't- looking at the RG Genesis 550 on the Ibanez site, it has a pickguard and doesn't appear to be rear-routed. I'm guessing the original owner added the pickguard to hide the routing for the other pickups...

Very nice work Matches your seat