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Where do I start? Maybe from the beginning! If you don't like to read, this post is not for you my friend.
Lately it has been a bit harder to sell relic stuff, which I will continue to do, so I began to do something I have already done, from 2012 to 2017. It was then I started to relic and this part of my activity was almost forgotten: to pick cool guitars (mainly Ibanez) that are selling here in France at a lower price, clean them, do a setup according to my experience, and sell them. It doesn't pay the bills, but it helps to pay our car's new clutch, for example.
This last April I've sold an Ibanez S520EX, which was really cool except for the pickups, a covered set of INF 1 and 2.
Early May I've found a very dusty S771PB. Let me tell this again: some guitars may not be Custom Shop or pricy models, but a little maintenance would help a lot when you're selling. And this was another case of a great guitar set aside by someone who hasn't done much to keep it clean.
It was sent with the neck detached from the body, which wouldn't be a problem, specially for a guitar with a fixed bridge. What I didn't expected was for both to be sent together in a gigbag with no protection between them! Big mistake!!! I guess the machine heads did some nasty deep scars just above the bridge pickup, since there were none in the seller's pictures. Some guys have a brain but there's dust inside it, not only on their guitars. Moving on!
Fixed bridge, not much work, general cleaning with furniture spray, a smooth brush and Q-tips, and in half an hour it looked way better!
I've done a fret level, but only the 2nd, 17th and 23rd needed attention. The rest is PERFECTLY leveled, it seems the guitar was never played, or the guy plays smoothly, which is how I play too actually. Never had to change frets on any of my guitars. New strings, 9-42 gauge, octave tuning, and this Sunday morning was spent doing the setup.
Action: I have set the neck dead straight, as on all my guitars, and started all strings at 2,0mm at the 24th fret. Then I go down until the string starts to buzz and go back until it doesn't. Here are the heights at the 24th fret now:
Low E: 2,0mm at the middle of the string,
A: 1,9mm at the middle of the string,
D: 1,7mm at the middle of the string,
G, B and high E: 1,1mm at the middle of the string!
I have gone back to the truss rod just to slightly compensate the tension and set it straight again, and it was ready. I couldn't believe it! The S520 was great, but this one is as easy to play as any of my own Ibanez japanese RGs. Well, Indonesia is where the Premium series are made so, this one has probably been built by the same people. I've spent about one hour and a half just noodling back and forward to make sure every string at every fret wasn't buzzing. Even compared it to my RGT220... and got jealous!
The pickups: as I said, the INFs on the S520 didn't pleased me, too sterile. But the same pickups (not covered), in basically the same model (except it's 24 frets instead of 22), sound pretty nice! Let's be real, maybe they're not Dimarzios, but I wouldn't change them right away, or maybe not even later.
Regular 5-way with split humbuckers plus middle pickup on 2 and 4 positions for "Stratish" tones, with the obvious limitations of an HSH configuration, of course. No scratch noises on the pots or switch, awesome deal!
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