Have any of you ever "de-shredded" a shred guitar?

Kinda. I turned a cheap Ibanez into a punk guitar. I removed the neck humbucker, switched the bridge humbucker to an SD Invader, removed the switch and painted in black. So it’s a little less shred. I’m still not a huge fan of the neck, but it’s just a straightforward power chord machine.

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no...cause back off volume and all the tones of a less hot pup are there..my ibby out strats my strat for strat style tones. If you have Ibanez V type pups..i cant find anything better than them.....block the trem and you have reg guitar if ya want

 

Don't do it. That guitar is wholly evil. It cannot be used for good. You may start off as the master but it will ultimately corrupt your soul as it exerts its pernicious influence. Eventually it will become the master and you will find yourself a quivering, crawling slave to its will. You might as well just go out and buy black nail polish and a pentangle T-shirt right now.

Get rid of it, man, for the sake of all that is holy!

 

"I cut all the points off my mockingbird." Has a poetic ring to it.

They were feeling kind of long

 

Just play a Tom T Hall song on it.

 

90's japan Ibanez 420sc S Classic...has coil split...SD neck and custom bridge wired to 8.5 ohms built it this way for non metal songs on set and for strumming full chords..the bridge is the most comfortable for placing hand on it and it splits coils for twang or quack if ya need it..the neck is so easy and body is thin. Took time to match pups for some great combined sounds for rhythm strumming..has 25.1 scale..its comfortable.

 

Quick search and I found this, Ebanol nut.

Never done it and I don't know how the FR nut gets in your way, but I've had FR equipt guitars for a very long time.

In the video, he pulls out the whole Floyd trem in addition to the nut. Were it me, I'd try the new nut and leave the trem unit installed and block it or deck it, which ever your prefer. BTW, the hole in left in the his guitar is amazingly ugly.

Also, the guy in the video complains about restringing Floyds. I think they are easy. I run the strings backward, ball end at the tuner. Been doing it forever and it's actually faster IMO.

Is there anything other than the FR that make's it a 'shred' guitar in your view?

 

That would be an interesting project - but you would probably spend more time, effort and money than if you just say built a non-shred guitar from the ground up with a similar neck profile.

 

Yes, as soon as I started to “play” it ...

 

These are my guitars for country and western music....


Country



Western

 

I have a jackson dinky someone gave me that I put a tele neck pickup on with a splittable bridge humbucker. I also added a pickguard for looks. It's too acoustically thin to twang, imo. Granted, my electronics choices were cheapo bottom of the barrel, but I really think there's just not enough mass to it. Trying to get twang gets thin brittle harshness.

On the other hand I fixed a friend's westone, and it sounded pretty ok. It also had some weird alternative to a floyd where the microtuners pushed on little bars that could be manipulated to work like string benders. If that one were mine, I think it'd be worth trying to get to sound like a telecaster.
It's neck was modern, but not too flat. I think some of the really flat necks are partially responsible for the thin sound they tend to have.

 

Yeah, Dave Navarro playing an RG 570 in the video for "Stop" was my reason to buy the same model.

With both of them I had the Floyd Blocked so it could only go down.

The Stickered one had EMG pickups and I was surprised that the one with the stock pickups ended up sounding not really all that different.

I had to sell both of them and I miss them.

Oh and guess what, Dave is back playing Ibanez.