I kept thinking about this guitar since I saw the video of it. So, I went down and bought it today. It is 'killer'!! A little rough like Dane says but he cleaned it up really nice and it looks and sounds awesome!! Dane sold it to me for a superb price and sorry to whom were all thinking about looking at it and buying it. It's mine, ALL MINE!! Wuhahahaha!!! 🎸😃👍
@@ranman58635 Thank you for asking! It is going great!! I hardly have to tune it and the pick ups are working great! The volume and tone pots are working superbly as well! Love it! Skål!
Great freaking playing at the end Dane you've really gotten a lot better at playing guitar! (for a bass player anyway)😜Great job fixing that guitar up dude!
For a professional shop that seems pretty amateurish. You could remove the tuners before polishing the head stock, use a dedicated product for the fretboard and polish the frets properly. And the black sharpie on the pickup 😅
Really nice video. Love the background music and the jam at the end. You saved another guitar! Some people rescue dogs and cats. You rescue guitars and make them cool again. Nice work 👍
Very true comment about polishing and cleaning up before trading in. I brought in an Ibanez when I was young to trade in at a GC and they didn’t want it because it was modded. I had taken out the mini toggle for the active eq and replaced it with a tone knob so it was 1 vol & 1 tone. When I cleaned it up real nice the next time I tried (lol I was young so of course I tried) they took it in no problem and even said it was in really nice condition and offered me more than what I was hoping! 😂
This is an Ibanez EX350. The Korean-made EX line was a more budget-friendly version of the Japanese Ibanez RG, with notable differences being a rounder body-edge radius (as opposed to the RG’s more squared-off edges), 22-fret necks, and more modest hardware. That Kahler bridge is an aftermarket swap.
Good call on the EX! I was scanning the comments to see if anyone ID'd this guitar! I've been buying these and restoring them, but I only look for the ones with the Takeuchi LO-TRS. If I can't restore the Takeuchi I drop in a brand new Gotoh GE1996T which is a direct drop in replacement!
Man I love watching ur vids!!! They always put me in a good mood and give me inspiration 😁 keep up the good work bro!!!🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼 🎸 one day I’ll make it into ur shop 🤓
I have an EX360. (made in Korea). Difference is no pickguard. I bought it used and abused. Put it through more abuse, until the previously repaired neck crack let go again. Parked it for years, then bought a Japanese replacement neck with identical specs except has fret dots. Years later I'm now also a guitar tech. I'm now thinking save the Japanese neck and build a Jem DBK or rootbeer clone out of it. And try to repair the original neck. But it's pretty gooched. I'll have to look at the frets I think they were really worn. But I do need a 'parts guitar' to practice fret replacement.
I love your show at Zimm's and I always had a interest in repairing and becoming a guitar technician. That's definitely a Frankenstein restoration you did though. Can you recommend any books on restoring or guitar maintenance. Thanks again sir!
I love watching your restoration video's, these old guitars may be cheap models but they deserve to be looked upon in their best light. Keep doing what you are doing man!
Awesome video man I love what you do and I envy it I wish I could open my own shop cuz I love tinkering on guitars and take an old beaters and making them play nice and do great sounds awesome playing and keep up the awesome work
I have a 85 Aria Pro ll Night Warrior and I have the same tremolo, it says Act 3 on it and it looks like a Kahler but I have been told by someone who knows Japanese guitars and said it was a Floyd Rose, What I was told that Floyd Rose would license there tremolo to guitars companys, what ever that really means.
No problem Zimm ... I can hang out ,,, and hold down one end of the guitar ... Yeah, had a similar project where the Tremalo ,,, was on " 2 wood screws" ... I'm sure you've seen it before ... So I filled it in and made it a hard tail ... Love your work !!! Thanks ...
WTH are you people smoking. Didn't take off the tuners, neck, pickups. Didn't take out any of the scuffs. Colered it with magic marker. some fool actually bought it? You took this poor man's last $50.00? I can't believe my wretched eyes.
It looks like an early RG , I’ve never seen an rg with shark fins , teeth yeah, I don’t believe that kahler Floyd is original, because Ibanez and gotoh would’ve had an edge trem by the time of RG shape, borrowed from the Jem . It’s a pretty cool old guitar and if it’s a Japanese Ibby from the late 80s plays awesome I bet . Edit 22 fret RG at that, the neck is really throwing me off , I guess it could’ve came off about any bolt on Ibanez of the time, maybe it’s original but who cares if it plays and sounds good
This is an Ibanez EX350. The Korean-made EX line was a more budget-friendly version of the Japanese Ibanez RG, with notable differences being a rounder body-edge radius (as opposed to the RG’s more squared-off edges), 22-fret necks, and more modest hardware. That Kahler bridge is an aftermarket swap.
O cara não desmonta a parte elétrica, não desmonta a guitarra direito, não hidrata a escala, só dá uma tapeada bem +/- e chama isso de restauração... Coitada da guitarra, fiquei com pena dela por ter passado nas mãos desse cara
