Guitar refinish, any guitar shops recommendation?

Chronicles

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Hi ya, had heard lots of nasty stories about leaving guitars to certain shops. So to be safe, i decided to ask over here :p Actually i had a rare ibanez 540R radius which i wanted to refinish into a joe satriani "blue donnie hunt" replica. is there any shops that you guys recommend? thx alot for the help!

here a pix that shows something like "donnie hunt"

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i will love to get that guitar, consider that my is s-s-h, and that i h-h, too bad i love pull-ups alot if not i will get that guitar without any second
 
i wouldnt trust ANYONE in singapore to do even a half decent donnie hunt graphic...leave the radius as it is man..which year/model is it exactly?
 
its a 1988 (from what i see from the serial and what I heard from my dad cause he rem it was during the dragon year) I found this in my storeroom, which my father bought to learn and give up half way along, not too sure how much he bought for it . Anyway I really inherit some habits of my dad (yeah he learn photograhpy, golf, guitars and everything give up halfway lol, learning something and give up halfway), im picking guitar up again. Anyway its in Jewel blue with original EDGE.

p/s, is there any radius model with lo-pro edge? and which year did radius stop production? is radius model consider a "rare" model?
 
Chronicles said:
its a 1988 (from what i see from the serial and what I heard from my dad cause he rem it was during the dragon year) I found this in my storeroom, which my father bought to learn and give up half way along, not too sure how much he bought for it . Anyway I really inherit some habits of my dad (yeah he learn photograhpy, golf, guitars and everything give up halfway lol, learning something and give up halfway), im picking guitar up again. Anyway its in Jewel blue with original EDGE.

p/s, is there any radius model with lo-pro edge? and which year did radius stop production? is radius model consider a "rare" model?

your 540RJB is a really nice radius to have..im not that big a fan of the original edge and lack of AANJ though..i'd be making you an offer otherwise :wink:

yes,there was a radius with lo-pro, the R540LTD. lo-pro edge, AANJ and H-S-H config. this was the only radius to ever have the AANJ and was only available in '93, the whole line stopped production afterwards to make way for the S-series. so yes,yours is fairly rare though not as rare or desirable as the R540LTD...

my friend owns an oddball R540LTD which i've been trying to buy off her for years but she's not budging..same features,but the odd thing is that it has DOT inlays instead of the sharkteeth inlays..
my initial thought was that the neck was swapped,but it appears to be original,radius spec and the serial number checks out to be a '93.
all the radius "experts" online are pretty much stumped with this one..best guesses is that it's either a factory error or a one-off,making it extremely rare.

long story short, don't refinish it, and if you really want to have a donnie hunt graphic, i'd be glad to trade you an old s series S540 to refinish instead of the radius... :wink:
 
interesting...within 15 minutes of radius talk and up pops an ad on luthermusic wanting to buy radius models.

LOOKING for ibanez RADIUS model. Please email me if u happen to have any one of them for sale. And please provide more info on it, like any swapped stuff? What bridge? What Pickups and so on. Thanks.

coincidence? i think not..
 

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