NGD: Ibanez JS1200

[AlbertA]

Dude, when I picked up my JEM and we were driving back to Staten Island from Manny’s I had the case opened in my lap in the backseat and I was trying to get the bar in, having never even pushed a bar into a LoPro before, never mind a new one. I was so frustrated and thinking it was broken my dad was practically yelling at me from the front seat to calm down and wait until we got home.

Hah - yeah it basically went something like this

I want to try one of the carbon fiber bars but can’t bring myself to drop $100 on one.

Yeah same.

As for the bushings, you probably already know this but you can hold a lighter up to them and get them to warp a little and get a few more months out of them. I went about a decade doing that with the same two bushings and then eventually I just started wrapping some teflon tape around the whole section where the bushings are and it’s good to go for quite a while.

I did try that on the old bar and it did help a bit but they where making a very annoying <creeek> sound not to mention the paint was flaking of.

 

[tekbow]

Nice! Many years ago I had a JS1000 black pearl, fantastic guitars

 

[unix-guy]

Now I need to intonate the thing.

Was going to suggest that... Way easier than without!

I ended up getting one of these to adjust the intonation. Works pretty well - way way way way easier to adjust the intonation with this tool.


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[AlbertA]

Nice! Many years ago I had a JS1000 black pearl, fantastic guitars

Me too! and I sold it - it was probably a couple of years after that I started the hunt for a JS1200

 

[AlbertA]

I got one of these:

1/4" Mono 2 Conductor Thick Panel Mount Jack w/Cable Clamp, Nickel Finish | Switchcraft

www.switchcraft.com

to replace the output jack as the current one would crackle and cut off if there was sufficient pressure applied to the jack.

It fit pretty good slightly longer but no issue fitting in the cavity.