Maple Veneering

Malkav

Hi all, I've decided that royal blue is a boring colour and I'd like to get someone to remove the paint off one of my guitars and attach a flamed maple veneer (I don't want a cap as I don't want to change the tone too much). Of course being the douchebag that I am I'd like it to be a very pretty flamed maple veneer (nice grain kinda vibe) and it's for a 7-string so the body is a bit bigger than normal and I want it to be in a red burst colour (with black on the edges). So I was wondering if anyone knows anyone in the Cape Town area that can do this kind of work and around about how much it might cost (and yes I know that it'll be F***ing expensive)

any info regarding this would be much appreciated ?

AlanRatcliffe

Speak to Foster v.d. Merwe. He's your best bet.

Skywalker

Alan Ratcliffe wrote Speak to Foster v.d. Merwe. He's your best bet.

I'll second that!!!

arjunmenon

Chad,

Guy and i once visited Brian Fanner's office in the Woodstock area because i was interested in having somewhat the same thing done to my RG7620 (i'm assuming its your 1527 that the maple veneer is aimed at), but i also wanted the old fretboard replaced without dot inlays or markers.
If i remember correctly, i was quoted around 6500 for it but i never went through with it.
Bottom line, you could also check out Brian Fanner. The chap we spoke to is Ian and i may have lost his number.

Cheers

Malkav

@ Alan - as much as I'd love to send it to foster I've found that everytime I've asked him about mod work to my guitars he always turns me away saying that he'd like to focus on building acoustics rather. This has really started to make me doubt whether or not his services would be worth the effort because even if I did manage to send the guitar to him and talk him into doing it, I'm not sure the level of attention to detail that I would want would be supplied as he does seem to rather want to push for his acoustics. To be quite brash I don't make enough money to risk having to spend more than one agreed figure on this so I wouldn't want to risk having sub-standard service.

@ Arjun - I actually forget about Brian Fanner, I've gigged quite a few times with Ian's band so I'll just make sure I have a conversation with him about it next time I see him ? and yes it's my RG1527 (ugly damn colour that it is) I'm quite happy with the fretboard though (can't really say much for the frets - I'd prefer 6100) but still I recently bought an RG320 MH to practice on at home so I don't wear out the frets on my Japanese RGs (or the strings - can't afford to restring all these things every month) and I'm going to hopefully be putting Lumo Green Dimarzio's in it (D-Sonic & Air Norton of course) and I was thinking it'd be cool to have green fret markers (it's a black stained mahogany finish) of course I stole this idea from the original universe guitars but it looks awesome so whatever ?

arjunmenon

Chad Adam Browne wrote @ Arjun - I actually forget about Brian Fanner, I've gigged quite a few times with Ian's band so I'll just make sure I have a conversation with him about it next time I see him ? and yes it's my RG1527 (ugly damn colour that it is) I'm quite happy with the fretboard though (can't really say much for the frets - I'd prefer 6100) but still I recently bought an RG320 MH to practice on at home so I don't wear out the frets on my Japanese RGs (or the strings - can't afford to restring all these things every month) and I'm going to hopefully be putting Lumo Green Dimarzio's in it (D-Sonic & Air Norton of course) and I was thinking it'd be cool to have green fret markers (it's a black stained mahogany finish) of course I stole this idea from the original universe guitars but it looks awesome so whatever ?

Awesome stuff man. Thankfully, Ibanez have opened their eyes and are bringing out extended range instruments in a few more colours than just black and that weird green-blue ? Interesting that you mention the RG320 MH, because i bought a 320 FM a short while ago and modded it to keep my hands in shape for 6 strings (and the 7620 helps with the 7 strings bit). Helps with transitioning from 7 to 6 and back.
Re fretboards, I prefer the no dots virgin fretboard look ?
And good luck trying to find the lumo green D-Sonic & Air norton man (you going for the Universe look like the one in the "Lie" video?). Nice p/up combo BTW..it takes one petrucci fanboy to know another one i guess ? . I know that Dimarzio used to have all those exotic colours in the 80s and early 90s, not so sure if they still sell 'em. I reckon its going to be a hard find man.
Do let me know how it goes with Brian Fanner.
Good luck.

Malkav

Yeah I recently bought the RG320 MH second hand as a practice guitar so that I could always be on an Ibanez shaped neck while not ruining the life of the strings on the guitars I use with my band, I thought the RG320 MH would be a good choice because it's fixed bridge and mahogany. Of course we're talking about the Lie video ? from what I know Dimarzio do a zebra colour of the Air Norton & D-Sonic where the pickup is half black half lumo-green (I do want a fully lumo green though so I'm going to see what I can arrange with the agents).

Initially I had a Cort NZS-1 (Neil Zaza Signature) but I sold it to get this RG on the basis that the neck would be more familiar to move between guitars (my others are RGs as well) the NZS-1 was a nice guitar but moving from it's neck shape to my gigging guitars (RGs) wasn't comfortable and as I saw myself playing RGs for the rest of my life I figured my practice guitar would have to change. Also, I'm thinking of putting a Graph Tech Ghost system in it so I can use it as a rad layering instrument in studio (if I ever get in studio) ?