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Congratulations! Listened to your audio file "French Fries"--real nice guitar playing!
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12-04-2017 06:15 PM
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There's not much wrong with that now man ...
Really nice ...
Do you reckon the clearcoat is a bit thinner on
these af55 than a usual ibanez ?
I'd put black chicken head knobs and cream pu rings
and remove the pickguard ... I did that with my Af81
Did you have to smooth the fret ends much ?
I did on my Af81
I might put a CC type pickup on mine , its got
a HB size P90 on it at the mo
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Yes, the finish seems pretty thin, but I couldn’t say if it’s thinner than usual. After I polished it you can see a hint of wood grain if you look at it against the light in a shallow angle, so it might be thinner indeed.
I did run a sanding paper (wrapped around a small wood block) along the fretboard edges, but more to give those a bit of a rounded off feeling. Fret ends were pretty much near perfect. I am still amazed about the quality of the fit and finish for such a low priced guitar!
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Fantastic
If the veneer isn't thinner than on other Artcores it certainly looks so.
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Originally Posted by m_d
I had an Ibanez AF-75 briefly (for a year or so) once upon a time (traded it for a really nice MIK Epi Dot, that I in turn traded for a sweet Tele I still have, but I digress...)
The AF-75 seemed much heavier than the 55 that I tried at GC recently. That was one of the reasons I moved it along, truthfully. It was a beast.
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A short revival and update of this topic:
Remember I reversed the neck pickup so that the coil with the adjustable polepieces would be in the position of the virtual 24th fret? I assumed thus would bring a little bit of extra clarity.
To test this theory I reversed the pickup to a ‘normal’ position last weekend. Result: I like the position of the ‘falsely’ mounted pickup (with pole pieces in the 24th fret position) better! It does indeed bring some extra clarity and makes the tone a little lighter. In the normal position it sounds much more as if you are playing with your right hand over the fretboard all the time. It’s a matter of preference of course, so what suits you best is something you have to find out for yourself, but for me with this particular guitar I like the pickup reversed. (So I have to swap it back again :-)
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I’m curious as to what the neck profile is like on this guitar.
Thanks
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Originally Posted by jtpal25
I think the neck profile is about the same as of my 2005 ES-333.Last edited by Little Jay; 03-09-2018 at 04:45 AM.
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Hi folks, I really like the look of this guitar with a pickguard. Wondering if anyone could point me in the direction of which one to buy for it. Would any Gibson style ones fit?
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Originally Posted by Hood
I made the pickguard myself from a blank. You can order those at thomann.de for example.
Goldo PG53B Pickguard Blank BK – Thomann Nederland
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is the trussroad work properlly?
is a new af-55 guitar need fretworks?
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Originally Posted by kris
Very good quality control on these Ibanez guitars! (Well, at least on the one I got.)
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Originally Posted by Little Jay
I think about this model of Ibanez...I have ocasion to buy it used for 250 Euro.
best
Kris
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Originally Posted by kris
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Hi Little Jay,
last week I bought a two months old AF55 from a guy in Milan that gave me
the guitar (newly strung with Ibanez 010/013/017/030/042/052 strings) +
an Ibanez soft gig bag + a nylon strap for a total of 150€. In Milan (Lucky Music)
they are selling it for 275€ (just the guitar).
I can clearly see the guitar is new even if it should be a 2014 model (code 1202) with ACHS pickups
instead of the Infinity R they mount nowadays. I think it's been sleeping in the shop
quite a bit.
I'm not a guitarist like you guys and I bought it because my 17 years old daughter
started to learn to play to accompany herself a few months ago and recently said to me
that she would love Tuck Andress guitar's sound better than the stock nylon classical
Admira Menina's, that's been around in the house for about 45 years, on which she started
her learning path.
So I looked around for a cheap semi hollow and found that bargain: non bad, isnt'it?
For now I'm not thinking to change anything but after reading all this thread
I'm thinking to try and reverse the stock pickup at the neck and I would love
to get to the same finish you got on yours. I read you used a car polishing product
but, being afraid to use the wrong polishing product and to ruin my AF55 I beg you
to squeeze your memory and please give me some more details or examples (names)
about the actual product you used. I've never used a car polish thing so I don't even know
if there are different categories or "ingredients" so, here I am.
I love the look of your one and I will go on this route only if I will feel
absolutely safe.
Thanks.
fabio
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I like that; I see a poor man’s ES-350, Kessel Style. Nice job.
Steven
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Hi Fabio,
Great bargain on the guitar! You did well!
I used Valma scratch remover:
But I really think that any polishing compound would do the trick. You can always try it out on a little spot on the back. Mind you: it took a lot of rubbing! You just rub until it starts to shine, little spot by little spot. It took me at least an hour per side. The technique is to make a little ball of cloth on which the polish form a rubbery film that is your polishing surface. Use circular movements. Breathing on it helps! (Like you would do cleaning a mirror.)
Good luck! I’m confident you can do it!
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Originally Posted by stevo58
Here’s me playing it on a boat jn the city canal last weekend. I took it instead of the ES-125 because of the chance of rain. Good thing I did because it started raining cats and dogs and it got wet indeed! But poly finish can easily handle that ;-)
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Great thread. Ive got one of these babies and I love it. I was torn between upgrading to an almost sub-1000 guitar or upgrading the pups on this one. After looking at the job you did I think I might go for upgrading the pups, pots and maybe add a tortoiseshell pickguard. I was thinking about Gibson 57 Classic Plus pups.
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Originally Posted by Poolshark
I think the classic 57 would work well in this guitar. I like them a lot in my ES-333 and I think they are not very different from the Gibson patent number humbucker I put in the neck position of the AF55. And I like the tone the patent number delivers there!Last edited by Little Jay; 09-24-2018 at 06:17 AM.
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Man the finish looks AMAZING.
I’ve just upgraded my (Korean) AF85 with two Gibson 57 Classics, sounding pretty good. I’m going to gig the bejeezus out of it late October so will report on it here.
But I might try the pick up swap thing. Does it give you a Peter Green middle position?
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I suppose you’d need to rewire it for that
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Originally Posted by christianm77
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Hi there!
I am looking forward to this outstanding looking AF55 Modell.
I have a question about the volume and tone button change.
Can the amber ibanez buttons you used be placed on the installed pots or do I need
other pots to use the amber colored buttons?
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Originally Posted by Prof.Reverb
Cheap floating humbuckers
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