Gr3y
New member
Hi all!
I've seen many people selling their jem jr and buying from sweelee sale like it's really a good buy. I personally bought mine 6years back w/o even knowing it belongs to this artist known as Steve Vai.. After i've bought it, my friend in the school's guitar club told me it is an artist series and it is way damn cool. I start to check his clips and videos and was stunted!
This guitar been through alot of modifications and upgrades. Mine did not come with edge pro and it's the old lousy ibanez bridge.. The pickup comes with some inf1 or something.. so that's terrible too.. Mine was a MIK ibanez and i have heard so much of them being so much better then indonesia and china made ibanez but hey.. the later pics will make you think otherwise.. But again, that could be a minor case and you can consider me being unlucky.
Modification/Changes/Damages
Rosewood fingerboard -> Ebony Fingerboard with Vine of life Inlay(made myself)
Ibanez TRS Bridge -> Gotoh Floyd Rose Model
Bridge Cavity -> Routed to enable up wham(yes the old version actually didn't allow that!)
Stock Pickup -> Dimarzio Evo set
Dings and chips -> all according to the real Evo guitar of Vai.
Enough of talking! Let's View the photos!
( I will not be posting full detail steps nor will i discuss it so please do not pm me regarding it. I do not wish to mislead anyone with my "ah beng" methods. Will not offer any inlay service at the moment too, it's too shag and you can't afford to pay it most prob. Not being proud nor arrogant as the market rate is actually USD$75/hr )
The initial state
Shall skip the changing of bridge n pickup n making of dings and go straight to our main fingerboard magic
First, you got to cut the inlays!
Then you got to route the fingerboard
Check if they fit nicely every now and then!
I've seen many people selling their jem jr and buying from sweelee sale like it's really a good buy. I personally bought mine 6years back w/o even knowing it belongs to this artist known as Steve Vai.. After i've bought it, my friend in the school's guitar club told me it is an artist series and it is way damn cool. I start to check his clips and videos and was stunted!
This guitar been through alot of modifications and upgrades. Mine did not come with edge pro and it's the old lousy ibanez bridge.. The pickup comes with some inf1 or something.. so that's terrible too.. Mine was a MIK ibanez and i have heard so much of them being so much better then indonesia and china made ibanez but hey.. the later pics will make you think otherwise.. But again, that could be a minor case and you can consider me being unlucky.
Modification/Changes/Damages
Rosewood fingerboard -> Ebony Fingerboard with Vine of life Inlay(made myself)
Ibanez TRS Bridge -> Gotoh Floyd Rose Model
Bridge Cavity -> Routed to enable up wham(yes the old version actually didn't allow that!)
Stock Pickup -> Dimarzio Evo set
Dings and chips -> all according to the real Evo guitar of Vai.
Enough of talking! Let's View the photos!
( I will not be posting full detail steps nor will i discuss it so please do not pm me regarding it. I do not wish to mislead anyone with my "ah beng" methods. Will not offer any inlay service at the moment too, it's too shag and you can't afford to pay it most prob. Not being proud nor arrogant as the market rate is actually USD$75/hr )
The initial state

Shall skip the changing of bridge n pickup n making of dings and go straight to our main fingerboard magic
First, you got to cut the inlays!

Then you got to route the fingerboard

Check if they fit nicely every now and then!
