Just after Christmas I bought myself a new bass guitar, an Ibanez GSRM-20B in a walnut finish. It was supposed to have a dark stain that allowed the woods grain to shine through but it didn’t work out that way and was almost black. Now refinished using elbow grease and danish oil, I’m very happy with how it turned out!
- Before and after!
- It begins…
- Before taking it apart, I went at it with sand paper to make sure there was some dece…
- Grounding of the electronics to the strings
- Original state of the electronics
- The neck was an utter bugger to remove but knolled and ready to be stripped!
- First pass with sandpaper and it’s got a wonderful deep red to it!
- Coming along nicely
- I’ve skipped a few steps but I’ve just laid everything out to get a feel for how it’l…
- Had to sign it 🙂
- Makers mark!
- Soldering done! Much tidier than before as I reduced the length of some of the wires…
- This is the official publicity photo and the reason I wasn’t happy with how it arrive…
