New Zealand Heavy Metal Forum & Discussion

[Rob]

Hey guys.

Here is a guitar i have owned since i was 16, long story short. i teased a christian guy on my course @ the time that his guitar had the serial #66673. and by the end of the week he freaked out and gave me it. ha. random. anyway. its had a rough and hard life. recently i got around to remodeling it.

Originally it was a Vester Custom Shop. 80's Metal Axe
V2 Pickups, Sunburst paint job, etc.

Now this is how she looks after 1 weeks effort sanding/repairing and painting.
Removing Neck Pickup, Covered the cavity, removed tone + selector.
Gloss Vivid white paint with black hardware and eventually i will purchase a new set of black tuning heads. and perhaps some locking nuts and a whammy

Atm I have the old V2 in there. its a really nice sound atm and considering upgrading to a EMG Active. but not sure yet.
Anyway. here are some photos. i should have taken before and after because there's alot of work on the body done, considering she had a hard life.

[Death]

whyd u take out the neck pickup?

[L0crianshredder]

Fucking eh.. what wood is the body. Get rid of the V2 I promise ya. Get Dimarzio D Activater in Bridge and Air Nortan in neck

[Rob]

Jake, the body is ALDER and MAPLE. i sanded it right down to the wood before painting it and yeah man lookin @ ibanez's or other gat u can usually see many peices of a plied wood making up the body. this is 1 piece. its amazing awesome and dark and light wood. to bad its white now. =D cant show off the wood.
have you played around with the v2 before>? there a vintage 80's thrash/shred pickup with a rather nice tone. the funny thing is. they are secretly made by DIMARZIO, licencsed under ibanez, placed in vester custom shops from like 80's lol. random aye.

yeah i took the neck pickup out. 2 reasons. i had a paul stanley iceman neck pickup the AH2. now the V2 was just way to grunty. any pickup that wasnt tough enough just didnt have any power next to the V2. im thinkin of a

2ndly. doesnt it just look so damn awesome without a neck pickup and no selector / tone. very BAUHAUS. simplistic aye.

[Rob]

this is probably the oldest photos of it i can find. however note these are 1 humbucker 2 single coils. mine was a rarer custom-shop with 2 x humbuckers. oh and not to mention the shark tooth frets.

Country of Manufacture Korea
Year 199x
Construction Bolt-On
Body Alder with maple cap(?), Arched & bound
Neck Maple
Fingerboard Rosewood
No. of Frets 24
Inlays Pearloid
Hardware Black
Bridge Gotoh Licensed Floyd Rose
Tuners Gotoh Die-Cast
Pickups 1 Splittable Vester Humbucker, 2 Vester Single Coils
Pickguard None
Finish 3-Tone Sunburst
Controls 1 Volume, 1 Tone (Push/Pull for Humbucker Split), 5-way

[The Mighty Jazrodian]

it used to be mint!

[Therapist]

Repainted Ibanez Mmm1

[soundstorm]

Dude, nice work. Sexy!

[Rob]

yeah thats my fav guitar he has. its a neck thru too!.. handles detuned so well also. it was clear coated wood grain.