They are like a white picture, ready for painting. Aren´t they?

That´s exactly what the costumer and I thought about it! Thanks Danel!

Tu si que eres un máquina!

Muchas gracias Extasys. Esto es sólo el principio! /Carlos.

Did you learn soldering? 1. solder both sides you want to join 2. put some solder to the tip of the solder iron 3. heat the thing you want to solder 4. apply solder to the HEATED thing, that is important, do not use the solder iron like some brush 5. mind the temp, avoid overheated solder, good solder shines, overheated solder is dull and that is no good. So, use a soldering iron with a temperature regulator. Or work fast and avoid too high temp. Things can be quite easy, but you got some problems. Welding a ground wire to the Strat spring holder is a classic one. Such parts are often chromed, and chrome does not like standard soldering, you often need to scratch the chrome away at just a small spot. And then you are facing a pretty large chunk of metal, it takes a certain amount of soldering iron power to heat it up. And another worry is the wires, in the past those were copper wires. Great for soldering. Today you see metals other then copper, and those can be like hell, they refuse the solder. Summary, stick to these soldering rules and you will get experienced. There are people capable of soldering chips with large numbers of pins. These guitars require only basic soldering, still, better do it carefully and good.

@@voornaam3191 appreciate the tips but i didnt ask for your advice and i dont know where you got the motivation to type this comment

Wow, thank you Jovan. I really apreciate your words.

@@AnjudaGuitars Always man 🤘

Rly great job done. And that guitar is a beast 😈🤘

Tu si que eres grande. Leyenda!

Hola Mordaz! Un traste bien pulido hace que tengas una mejor sensación a la hora de hacer bindings. Y a partir de cierto punto, también es una cuestión estética.

Gracias Bichino

Good point! Just as you say, I use a beam like eveybody else to level the frets. Is not in the video because one or two earlier videos was about that. I thought there was no reason to show it again.

In my opinion, Fluence is always a good idea. Go for it!

That's called a reverse headstock. Many brands do this on various models :)

That would be awesome! Hope o have a chance one day

My Guitar Center will replacea set of pickups for like $100, and that includes a set up, I believe.

You can go with felt wheel with polishing paste

Yep. They are

Maybe you can find some Gotoh´s or Schallers without the screw, but with a pin instead. Drill your brand new guitar, is for a good reason!

Graph Tech Ratio Tuners. IMHO they’re the best locking tuners available.

Yes, there is a Invader, and the other one I can´t remember, honestly

Depende, creo que en un foro de Reddit se habla de esa configuración de pastillas sobre Caoba. Si tienes claro el sonido que quieres igual cuesta más encontrar una guitarra que sea de Caoba, tenga la configuración que quieres y ruega porque no se haga solo en color rosa chicle. Oye, y que tal si dejamos la guitarra en manos del luthier del barrio que te conoce y sabe exactamente lo que estás buscando? ;)

Mi guitarra (ibanez rg421ahm) costo $300 dolares, solo le inverti $55 en unos locking tuners schaller, unos $30 en pots bourns y otros $90 en una dimarzio titan bridge (vendi la pastilla stock y los tuners originales que tenia en $45) asi que al final $300+55+90+30-45=$430 y tengo una guitarra a la altura de mi otra LTD de $1200, una guitarra con todo lo que tiene este video te la dan en mas de $1000 dolares asi que al final es mejor buscar buen mueble y meterle upgrades+ajuste con luthier

Usually, what is rough is the screw of the saddle. There are shorter screws for that that fix the problem. I can´t remember the lentgh of the screws, but the bridge felt right on the hand. Thanks for watching!

What are the major upgrades that I can consider..?

Upgrade it only if you are comfortable playing it. Otherwise is not worth it. Always pickups first!

That´s a good point replicant. Being Ibanez, the bridge is actually a Gotoh, not branded though. I´m not completely 100% sure about this, but I pretty sure that Gotoh makes the gear for Ibanez. And about the Hipshot, you are absolutly right, I just didn´t know about this bridge. Thanks for watching!

@@AnjudaGuitars Thanks for the reply and letting me know that the bridge is unbranded Gotoh! I just bought this guitar at half the price of the new one and I was thinking about the upgrades and actually looking at the Gotoh bridges. You saved me from a 55$ mistake that can go into locking tuners instead! Thanks.

Stock nut is plastic. A bone nut restores some treble and ensures that the strings won't bind to cause tuning instabilities.

@@ErebosGR lol no

@@chrischoir3594 lol you're clueless.

@@ErebosGR bone is made up of fibers and has a diffusive/damping/absorbent affect on sound. All the bone nut is going to do is muffle the sound and kill harmonics. Bone nuts are a marketing scam. Plastic has better bass and treble characteristics. Paul smith did a study on this. Not to mention if bone is not constantly being fed calcium and other nutrients it crystalizes, gets brittle and breaks. Bone is one of the worst materials you can make a nut or bridge out of. Brass is the #2 worst material.

@@chrischoir3594 DEpen what plastic is.. better graphtech

Hola Diego! Gracias por pasarte. A mí me encanta Ibanez, me las compraría todas!

I didn´t. There is a reason for all of that. That bridge, being cheap indeed, it´s exactly the bridge the costumer wanted. For the frets, they have a huge impact in the sound, and a lot of people desn´t like that typical stainless sound.

What do you mean Cee? The finish?

Just shut up mate 🙄🙄

Agree