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A long going project of mine is finally done!
I bought an 82 Ibanez Raoadstar II a while ago with full intent to rebuild it but not keep it stock. It was a project someone else started but gave up on. This is it when I got it
pretty ugly plus it was a slab body and I don’t care for slabs so i sanded
Then it went to paint. Fortunately my brothers hobby is rebuilding and painting old muscle cars so I sent it to him and he had some Boyd red and black left over from another project of his.
I got it back and life hit hard so it sat long enough that I forgot where I was going with it.
Life settled back down so it was time to get back at this bass. I decided to make the pick guard and figure out what pickups to do
I had bought a hipshot bridge for it
But it wouldn’t work for this bass but I really liked the look and stoopid me, I mounted it before I figured that out.
After a while I came up with this
Time to assemble….. well, I still had to deal with the neck and frets. I was going to re fret and properly sand the fret board. The previous owner really hashed it by removing the finish but left some pretty bad gouges between the frets going against the grain. I ended up leaving the frets, painstakingly sanded between them and re finished the fretboard and neck and did a fret job.
Then assembled!!!
Sounds and plays great!
The humbucker is in parallel, the split coil has its own volume and the humbucker shares a stacked pot with the tone control. The switch is just on/off…. Pretty simple
I bought an 82 Ibanez Raoadstar II a while ago with full intent to rebuild it but not keep it stock. It was a project someone else started but gave up on. This is it when I got it
pretty ugly plus it was a slab body and I don’t care for slabs so i sanded
Then it went to paint. Fortunately my brothers hobby is rebuilding and painting old muscle cars so I sent it to him and he had some Boyd red and black left over from another project of his.
I got it back and life hit hard so it sat long enough that I forgot where I was going with it.
Life settled back down so it was time to get back at this bass. I decided to make the pick guard and figure out what pickups to do
I had bought a hipshot bridge for it
But it wouldn’t work for this bass but I really liked the look and stoopid me, I mounted it before I figured that out.After a while I came up with this
Time to assemble….. well, I still had to deal with the neck and frets. I was going to re fret and properly sand the fret board. The previous owner really hashed it by removing the finish but left some pretty bad gouges between the frets going against the grain. I ended up leaving the frets, painstakingly sanded between them and re finished the fretboard and neck and did a fret job.
Then assembled!!!
Sounds and plays great!
The humbucker is in parallel, the split coil has its own volume and the humbucker shares a stacked pot with the tone control. The switch is just on/off…. Pretty simple
