MrDan666
Active member
So some time last year i scored an old MIJ Ibanez RG at a local pawn shop, i got it so cheap it was almost literally a 'steal' haha.
It's got a 4 bolt 'Tilt' neck joint, so i'm guessing it's pre 1993 as it's before they started doing the AANJ. It's loaded with an original Ibanez Edge Tremolo too.
The neck doesn't match the body as far as i can tell, since the paint on the body is like a flip flop purple/pink while the headstock is blue and the neck/headstock has binding too.
I did pull the neck back when i first bought it and if i remember correctly, there was a stamp in the neck pocket saying RG470. However, I don't know if the neck is actually a RG470 neck.. since the RG470 from that era would have had dot inlays instead of sharks tooth inlays.
Regardless of whatever it is.. the problem is that the neck pocket is either too deep OR the neck's heel is too shallow. To the point where the action sits massively high even with the trem lowered all the way down as low as it'll go.
Neither the neck or the body have ever been routed/sanded/modified in any way, so i'm sure this guitar is a mutt that was slapped together by someone who didn't have any knowledge/experience.
Short of pulling it apart and replacing either the neck or the body, is there any way to fix this?
I tried shimming the neck with 3mm extra thickness and it's like it would need atleast double that amount to fix the problem. Seems like a hell of a lot of shimming to have to add... Surely that will cause issues down the line?
It's got a 4 bolt 'Tilt' neck joint, so i'm guessing it's pre 1993 as it's before they started doing the AANJ. It's loaded with an original Ibanez Edge Tremolo too.
The neck doesn't match the body as far as i can tell, since the paint on the body is like a flip flop purple/pink while the headstock is blue and the neck/headstock has binding too.
I did pull the neck back when i first bought it and if i remember correctly, there was a stamp in the neck pocket saying RG470. However, I don't know if the neck is actually a RG470 neck.. since the RG470 from that era would have had dot inlays instead of sharks tooth inlays.
Regardless of whatever it is.. the problem is that the neck pocket is either too deep OR the neck's heel is too shallow. To the point where the action sits massively high even with the trem lowered all the way down as low as it'll go.
Neither the neck or the body have ever been routed/sanded/modified in any way, so i'm sure this guitar is a mutt that was slapped together by someone who didn't have any knowledge/experience.
Short of pulling it apart and replacing either the neck or the body, is there any way to fix this?
I tried shimming the neck with 3mm extra thickness and it's like it would need atleast double that amount to fix the problem. Seems like a hell of a lot of shimming to have to add... Surely that will cause issues down the line?
