I got a Flame maple body from a RG520!

[faekildare]

Now... I bought this guitar from E(vil)bay, with mahogany written on it. It was stamp RG520QS on the neck pocket but it was painted with flat Grayish silver. After assembling up my guitar.. I decided that the color is ugly.. and the dings kinda made it ugly (yea not those kinda relic stuff). So, I decided to take a gamble and sand of the finish and attempt an Oil Finish instead.

What can i say? Look at the quilted maple. Ibanez must be lazy or went out of stock when they wanted to produce the grayish silver ibanez RG520 and used a 520QS body instead... On my way to finish sanding the finish before oiling. Will post complete pics when i am done.

Cheers,

 

[relinquish69]

did you check to see if its a real FM top or just a "foto-flame" picture? my friend who worked in a guitar store stripped an RG body with a flame top only to find that it was just a picture pasted on top of basswood.

very dodgy indeed!

 

[LadyInTears]

did you check to see if its a real FM top or just a "foto-flame" picture? my friend who worked in a guitar store stripped an RG body with a flame top only to find that it was just a picture pasted on top of basswood.

very dodgy indeed!

dont burst his bubble too soon! he may have came across a true gem :mrgreen:

 

[faekildare]

Nope. Not photo. Photo-flame are the VERY early RGs. This is the real deal (3D) like grain. haha.