If I remember correctly, Ibanez's inlays are called sharktooth inlays. The glow strings look cool but the coating flakes off after playing for a while, and don't sound that great, but that's just my opinion. Great for standing out at a gig, but wouldn't record with them or keep them on the guitar for too long unless you want glowdust on your hands and guitar. Swapping a 24 fret neck for a 22 if the scale length is the same, isn't impossible, but with all the woodworking involved, it'd likely be more trouble than it's worth. You'd have to fill the old pickup hole, reroute the neck pocket and neck pickup route, reshape the heel, and drill new bolt holes for the new neck. To make sure you don't change the scale length, I'd mark on the body where a certain fret lines up and line up that fret on the new neck on the body so that you don't shift the neck too far forward or back. It should work because the necks are the same scale length, so all the frets are in the same spots, you're just adding two more.
Don't do it! I had a bass back in the 90s that had been finished with that stuff when I got it and it was so super rough, then it all started flaking off. Terrible idea!
Definitely going to have to get a new neck. that will not work on that Ibanez. But like someone else that, I would keep the original neck. I wouldn’t change it.
meh, its not impossible, but you could fill the neck pickup, and reroute the neck pocket to take the 24 fretter, but the body may be an issue with upper fret access. you could do that, or either removed material from the end of the new neck, cutting off the last 2 frets and reshaping the heel to fit your neck pocket. should not be too hard to either repair the binding or save the binding and reattach it after getting everything planed and smooth. up to you man, not too hard, you've got the experience. if the buyer is too afraid of the work not coming out right, then only other option is to find another neck, which seems liked a real bummer seeing the chance to have a go at cracking a neck modification. I had to do it with the right handed Jackson Dinky neck i installed on my Aria Pro II left handed body (silver and pewter metallic rising sun franken-strat i showed you a couple years back on IG). It came out awesome. the work accomplished felt pretty satisfying.
I have the DR Neon strings on 2 of my basses along with the DR Black Beauties on another one, and I love them. 😎 I'd leave that Ibanez X-Series neck alone, those are hard to find and butchering it up makes zero sense. I used to have an Epiphone Goth Thunderbird, not really my look but they are cool.
Change a perfect Japanese neck for an Indonesian neck and modify the neck pocket and neck pickup route of a great rare Japanese Ibanez? It’s painful just to think about it 😅
That’s too clean of an X series in my opinion to mess with I’d put a gotoh 1996t on it and play it, those are getting harder to come by because everyone has parted them out, they weren’t desirable guitars when they were new but they are better than just about anything you can buy now, you especially never see the X shaped Ibanez. I’d leave that original Japanese neck on it you’re not getting anything near as nice as that fretboard on anything newer that’s some choice Rosewood from back in the day.
You are doing awesome work Mark!
If I remember correctly, Ibanez's inlays are called sharktooth inlays.
The glow strings look cool but the coating flakes off after playing for a while, and don't sound that great, but that's just my opinion. Great for standing out at a gig, but wouldn't record with them or keep them on the guitar for too long unless you want glowdust on your hands and guitar.
Swapping a 24 fret neck for a 22 if the scale length is the same, isn't impossible, but with all the woodworking involved, it'd likely be more trouble than it's worth.
You'd have to fill the old pickup hole, reroute the neck pocket and neck pickup route, reshape the heel, and drill new bolt holes for the new neck. To make sure you don't change the scale length, I'd mark on the body where a certain fret lines up and line up that fret on the new neck on the body so that you don't shift the neck too far forward or back. It should work because the necks are the same scale length, so all the frets are in the same spots, you're just adding two more.
I scored a Goth LP a few weeks ago. Super clean, almost black fret board, for $300. Loving it!
Awesome guitar
was looking at the "stone fleck" gray granite paint and got the idea that it would make a funky "Fred Flintstone" type guitar.
Don't do it! I had a bass back in the 90s that had been finished with that stuff when I got it and it was so super rough, then it all started flaking off. Terrible idea!
Did a small cabinet with it and did a clear coat (many coats) to it and it turned out great.
Awesome!!!
I've always wanted one of those Ibanez's someday 😢
Instruments of Destruction 🤘🤘
Definitely going to have to get a new neck. that will not work on that Ibanez.
But like someone else that, I would keep the original neck. I wouldn’t change it.
meh, its not impossible, but you could fill the neck pickup, and reroute the neck pocket to take the 24 fretter, but the body may be an issue with upper fret access. you could do that, or either removed material from the end of the new neck, cutting off the last 2 frets and reshaping the heel to fit your neck pocket. should not be too hard to either repair the binding or save the binding and reattach it after getting everything planed and smooth. up to you man, not too hard, you've got the experience. if the buyer is too afraid of the work not coming out right, then only other option is to find another neck, which seems liked a real bummer seeing the chance to have a go at cracking a neck modification. I had to do it with the right handed Jackson Dinky neck i installed on my Aria Pro II left handed body (silver and pewter metallic rising sun franken-strat i showed you a couple years back on IG). It came out awesome. the work accomplished felt pretty satisfying.
I have the DR Neon strings on 2 of my basses along with the DR Black Beauties on another one, and I love them. 😎
I'd leave that Ibanez X-Series neck alone, those are hard to find and butchering it up makes zero sense.
I used to have an Epiphone Goth Thunderbird, not really my look but they are cool.
Change a perfect Japanese neck for an Indonesian neck and modify the neck pocket and neck pickup route of a great rare Japanese Ibanez? It’s painful just to think about it 😅
Sharktooth inlays those appear to be abalone
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Damn he never showed us the guitar that was behind the camera. He said he would show us 😡😡🤬
That’s too clean of an X series in my opinion to mess with I’d put a gotoh 1996t on it and play it, those are getting harder to come by because everyone has parted them out, they weren’t desirable guitars when they were new but they are better than just about anything you can buy now, you especially never see the X shaped Ibanez.
I’d leave that original Japanese neck on it you’re not getting anything near as nice as that fretboard on anything newer that’s some choice Rosewood from back in the day.
Trade him a neck with one of your spares at your shop.
Sorry there is zero reason to put an inferior neck on the ibanez.
I would stay ordinal with the Ibanez. But that's just me.