Nice! Very funny and style guitar! I have the same RG370 AHMZ BMT. I am doing some modifications as well and I am interested in removing the pickup ring. Do you know if the humbuckers cut has a good cut to leave it without the pickup ring frame?
@@hugoarrunategui I hate pickup rings, too. My advice is to remove the pickup rings and investigate what is the condition of the routing and finishing on YOUR particular guitar because no two are the same. I would also advise you to change the output jack with the Pure Tone Muti-Contact Jack. The original is total crap.
@CHARMONIUMGUITARS Thanks for the tip! I already did the following: 1 - replaced the varnish finish with new satin coat, 2- painted the headstock to match color with the body (green-blue burst), 3 - scalloped from 17 to 24th, 4 - installed stainless frets, 5- rewire for two new selections with pushpulls - (A) neck+bridge parallel and (B) bypass all pots as a boost.
@hugoarrunategui Sounds like you had lots of fun! I came to the conclusion, or should I say, built up a personal taste that splitting and taping are too much of a tone compromise for a high gain tone. Simply put, I hate any ground noise the high gain tones bring with single/split coils. So a 5-way switch becomes downgrade in tone in comparison to a simpler 3-way switch with all 3 positions hum cancelling (stacked hum cancelling middle pup) Another negative of the splitting is the difference in the oitput level between the positions. Use a multimeter and measure. You can get away with such a difference in the studio, but in a live situation, it quickly becomes the difference between being able to be heard in the mix or not.
@CHARMONIUMGUITARS I see! I feel the same. I have another guitar with coil tap and rearely use this option. That is why in my Ibanez I preferred a N+B toogle and a bypass toggle for a "boost" instead of lowering signals... In the next restring I will check the body cut without the humbucker ring to see if I will remove it. I also was checking the purchase of a transparent ring to reenchance this nice ash wood in green-blue burst color.
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Nice! Very funny and style guitar! I have the same RG370 AHMZ BMT. I am doing some modifications as well and I am interested in removing the pickup ring. Do you know if the humbuckers cut has a good cut to leave it without the pickup ring frame?
@@hugoarrunategui I hate pickup rings, too. My advice is to remove the pickup rings and investigate what is the condition of the routing and finishing on YOUR particular guitar because no two are the same. I would also advise you to change the output jack with the Pure Tone Muti-Contact Jack. The original is total crap.
@CHARMONIUMGUITARS Thanks for the tip! I already did the following: 1 - replaced the varnish finish with new satin coat, 2- painted the headstock to match color with the body (green-blue burst), 3 - scalloped from 17 to 24th, 4 - installed stainless frets, 5- rewire for two new selections with pushpulls - (A) neck+bridge parallel and (B) bypass all pots as a boost.
@hugoarrunategui Sounds like you had lots of fun!
I came to the conclusion, or should I say, built up a personal taste that splitting and taping are too much of a tone compromise for a high gain tone. Simply put, I hate any ground noise the high gain tones bring with single/split coils. So a 5-way switch becomes downgrade in tone in comparison to a simpler 3-way switch with all 3 positions hum cancelling (stacked hum cancelling middle pup)
Another negative of the splitting is the difference in the oitput level between the positions. Use a multimeter and measure. You can get away with such a difference in the studio, but in a live situation, it quickly becomes the difference between being able to be heard in the mix or not.
@CHARMONIUMGUITARS I see! I feel the same. I have another guitar with coil tap and rearely use this option. That is why in my Ibanez I preferred a N+B toogle and a bypass toggle for a "boost" instead of lowering signals... In the next restring I will check the body cut without the humbucker ring to see if I will remove it. I also was checking the purchase of a transparent ring to reenchance this nice ash wood in green-blue burst color.
@@hugoarrunategui You can also consider transparent full pickguard to make it look like the floral Jem.