I have 2 of these, great guitars.

Nice job, frets look amazing

I have the same model and I didn't know it could sound like this

Great job on this beauty! Stunning difference!

@chromaticmusic

Жыл бұрын

Thanks! Tons of work but we'll worth it

i wish i had a buddy like you who would tlc my guitars!

Love your fret work but wanted to point some things out. The saddles don't have a radius because the tremolo plate itself has a radius. Sort of a tiered or shelf-like situation. Also, the tremolo angle didn't appear to be to far off from where it should be. The Edge tremolo isn't designed to be level to the body like a Floyd. When it's pitched back too far, the knife edges don't meet the posts at the opitmal angle for flutter.

@chromaticmusic

8 ай бұрын

Good to know. I believe I mentioned what your referring to in the video. I've restored so many of these guitars Including yamahas that used the takuchi tremolo and I keep finding new and interesting things. Ibanez is way more consistent than yamaha. Bro, you'd laugh if you could see the game of 52 pickup yamaha had when they decided to make a guitar line. What guitars do you like?

@Schuylock

8 ай бұрын

@@chromaticmusic Right now I've got a collection of around 20 haha Couple of Gibsons, bunch of Strats, 3 Ibanez, PRS, Charvel, Caparison, ESP, Warmoth, EBMM and a few others. But I also do tech work for myself and friends so I've had my hands on the occasional oddball.

@chromaticmusic

8 ай бұрын

@Schuylock sounds like a very well rounded collection of axes! Tools for all tones is how I call it. It's always amazed me how so many people that are willing to spend many thousands on guitars have zero interest in learning how to setup and maintain their own guitars. Does prove musicians are lazy lol. I'm into it all, building amps, pedals, guitars, production, reamp cloning, you name it. Me neighbor walked by when I was replacing my breaks and said that's the only thing she doesn't trust herself to do. I said, so the one thing that will save your life you trust to someone that doesn't know or care about you? This is why I do my own breaks lol

I want that amp.! Gimme!!!

@chromaticmusic

11 ай бұрын

I built that amp

cool guitar. The bridge is suppost to be in that position not flat. its not a floyd. its the egde.

@chromaticmusic

3 ай бұрын

Really? That's awesome

The "Blaze" in the bridge position was often to thin in the mids, so i rplace it with the D-Sonic. Yes, ok.... i have done it because of Petrucci. ;)) Mine is now 23 Years old :).

@chromaticmusic

8 ай бұрын

Awesome, thanks for the information

@Jaundice__

4 күн бұрын

These don’t have Blaze pickups, they come with a DiMarzio variant made for these guitars specifically.

@inagerli

4 күн бұрын

@@Jaundice__ i know its not marked. But its the DiMarzio Blaze. I have the version without the neck reinforcement.

@Jaundice__

4 күн бұрын

@@inagerli They are not Blazes, you are wrong. Try them side by side, they are different. Stop spreading misinformation. Both of mine don’t have the laminated neck, again not blazes. They are called Dimarzio new 7’s marked B2 and N2.

@inagerli

4 күн бұрын

@@Jaundice__ You can believe what you want.

What did you soak the hardware in? And what did you use to get the body so shiny? Lovely work!

@chromaticmusic

4 ай бұрын

Dw40 in a tin for 24 hours. Buffed the guitar with scratch doctor and a high speed pad and used a clear coat spray for the final top coat.

I can never get my frets to shine like that even with a dremel. What’s the name of the compound?

@chromaticmusic

10 күн бұрын

@alif499 it's just a crappy kit from harbor freight. But I use fret erasers 400 to 4000 before I do the final polish. I also go diagonal and straight with the fret at 15k rpm with polish compound

deo you ever add fall away when u level the frets?

@chromaticmusic

11 ай бұрын

Didn't need to. That's really only needed for radius of fender style 7.25 necks. Some designs later added compound radius from 7.25 at the nut to 9 at the neck pickup but this guitar had a 14 which is near dead flat. So bending doesn't have issues. Great question, I didn't know the reason for it until I started refretting my collection