Seven-string conversion

Overview

This guitar started out as a 6-string tremolo-equipped Ibanez. I had the body sitting around from an earlier project, and I had been wanting to try seven-string guitar for a while. The natural solution was to rework the body to accept a seven-string neck and pickups, and build a new guitar around it.

Specs

• Sapele body from an Ibanez RG520
• Maple/rosewood Wizard-7 seven-string neck from an Ibanez RG7620
• Brass nut
• EMG 81-7 and 85-7 pickups
• ETS bridge
• Dunlop Straplocks
• Nitrocellulose lacquer finish in metallic black
• All black hardware

Building

Cleaning up the tremolo rout

Installing the fills

Pickup and battery box cavities routed

Mockup

Nut

Finishing

The headstock and body are finished in nitrocellulose lacquer over Duplicolor metallic black. The "Ibanez" logo is a vinyl decal I bought on eBay.

Completed

The finished guitar is lots of fun -- I really like playing seven-string.