Epiphone G-400 Korina, made in Korea

(Contact me at: mxktguitars@gmail.com)

450,00 Euros

plus shipping: 30€ to France, 40€ to the European Union/UK and 65€ to USA/Canada

 

Hi there
This Epiphone G400 Korina belongs to a cousin of my wife who used to be the guitar player at my church. Since a couple of years he has changed to the piano and he wants to sell his guitar; the amp has already gone. By the way, now I'm the guitar player in our community.

 
About the guitar, there are some marks that you can see on the pics. Apart from that, no noises, electronics work great, I have set the neck straight, done a good fret leveling, and the action is now 1.5mm at the 22th fret on the high E and 2mm at the low E, which is quite something.

 
It's a very easy and smooth guitar to play, I personally wouldn't change a thing, neither pickups or pots, anything. I've made a quick video so you can hear it, sorry for not being very professional, but that's the best I can on a Friday afternoon.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ibanez RG570 FM, MIJ 1990

(Contact me at: mxktguitars@gmail.com)

700,00€

plus shipping: 40€ to France, 50€ to the European Union. Anywhere else please ask for an estimation.

 

11 JULY 2024: TO THOSE WHO THIS MIGHT BE OF INTEREST, THE VK3 KNOBS WERE NOT AVAILABLE, SO GOTOH SPEED KNOBS HAVE ARRIVED AND ARE ALREADY INSTALLED. SEE LAST PIC PLEASE.

Another awesome Ibanez RG made in Japan available! Not just a guitar, but literally a piece of guitar history. According to the Date Your Ibanez project, it's a 1990 model, serial number F050529.

First time I sell an RG with the OSNJ vintage style neck heel. Although I'm a fan of the AANJ myself, I have to admit it was pretty clever for that period. In fact, I didn't noticed much difference while I was playing it, the access to the highs is great!

Hold it right there, I need to rewrite the text from this paragraph onwards! This guitar is now for sale since 7 months, I'm writting this portion of the text the 1st July 2024, after having played this guitar several times, so now I know it better. The previous owner installed a Seymour Duncan Parallel Axis and 2 special features: a kill-switch that goes back to ON when you stop pressing it (lower switch), and a upper boost switch. Now I know for sure that:

:: You have the usual 5-position switch known by everybody who has already played an HSH Ibanez, when the second mini-switch is up/right. The positions 2, 3 and 4 give you that Strat/"Teleish" towards to single-coil tones. Split coils, bla, bla, bla. (Very cool actually!)

:: Once you engange the mini-switch down/left, the volume gets slightly up - like when you engage a booster pedal - and the tone gets thicker. TO MY EARS, the position 1 and 2 is the full neck humbucker mode, and 3, 4 and 5 is the full bridge humbucker, but with a bit more punch than the full humbucker positions when you have the boost switch off. If the coils split, I don't notice it; either being on 3, 4 or 5 is the same sound, and being on 1 or 2 doesn't make no difference neither. It's like having a 2 position only PU combination with the boost on. I repeat, to my ears.

This is great because you have quite an amount of options when you're playing live and not wanting to be behind your pedalboard all the time IMO. Playing with the volume knob, tone, and these 3 switches, you can go from bluesy/jazzy tones to high gain tones easily, once you played it for a few hours and got used to this combination, of course.

Yesterday I leveled the frets on my RG550, then on my RG3170, and I've done it (again) on the RG570 too. The neck is now straight, no curve, and even lower than before, for faster playing. Since a few months I began to level frets differently, I don't take off the strings. I've noticed that with a piece of aluminium profile in T shape I can do it beneath the strings without loosing the string tension, which is in fact the normal position of playing. No one plays a stringless guitar, and I had the feeling that when the strings were back on it wasn't quite as I expected. So I don't relieve the tension, I don't set them out of tune, just level the frets without touching a thing, and it works great for me. Well, some will say that I can't polish the frets at the end, etc. You can do it when you'll change the strings anyway; and it's true they need to be changed in this case.

As for cosmetics, you have 2 major dings, one next to the jack input and the other on the arm cut (see the pics). The neck heel shows on both sides the cracks we all know on RGs, NO it won't break, it's only the finish that cracked! My RG550 is way more cracked than this 570, specially in the front. The sides and horns are in pretty good condition, and some light scratches from normal wear, really not that visible.

Last, but not least: the black tremolo bar IS INCLUDED (although I forgot to take pics), the strap pins were replaced by a new set of black Gotohs, and I've decided to go for new black knobs for volume and tone close to the originals, these ones suck. The case below is my own and I use it as background.

Done! A great guitar ladies and gents ;)

 

 

 

Ibanez RG550 LTD, MIJ 1997, HSS

(Contact me at: mxktguitars@gmail.com)

750,00 Euros

plus shipping: 30€ to France, 40€ to the European Union/UK and 85€ to USA/Canada

 

Hello you all!
This is my personal customised RG550 LTD from 1997. Over time I chose it, being a pickguard model, to do a HSS configuration since I didn't had a single coil guitar.

If you like pristine finishes this is not for you; the poly finish has cracked over the years, and it shows, a lot. Being a guy into relic stuff, I love it. In fact it has been my most played guitar this last 2 years, since the mod was done.

Features, a Dimarzio PAF Pro in the bridge, Fender Yosemite Alnico IV RWRP in the middle, and a Fender American Standard neck pickup in the neck position. Allparts CTS no-load 500k tone pot and CTS audio taper pot in the volume position, along with an original 5-way switch from Fender too. Frets are in very good shape, no buzzing, it was a very good deal, and believe me, I've had a lot of Japanese RGs since my 30's.

The guitar has a low playing action, no tuning or tremolo issues, as all my other RGs, and it was wired by Christophe at MDS Audio. There's a lower volume playing in position 4, neck-middle position, some say it's normal. I don't know, but Christophe has been wiring my guitars since I arrived in France in 2012, no worries until this day. Before I forget: NO TREMOLO BAR included, sorry folks. You can buy one at Fred's Guitar Parts, etc, without having to rob a bank.

I decided to sell it, with regret still, because I need funds to review all the electronics on my RGT220 that's driving me crazy with this hum noise, but also, I want to finally build myself a relic Telecaster with a body I have been keeping since 2020, that looks awesome, and I already have the Ritchie Kotzen Dimarzio combo I have bought at a very good price!! Very excited about it!

God bless!