Details & History
This is the original Ibanez spec sheet,
(an interesting insight in itself)
| Artist Name | James McIlroy |
| Guitar Construction | |
| Construction Type | Neckthrough |
| Neck Material & Structure | |
| Material | Maple 3 piece |
| Fingerboard | Rosewood (dark) |
| # of Frets | 24 Frets |
| Thickness | 19mm at fret-1 , 21mm at fret-12 |
| Width | 43mm (nut) 57mm(fret 24) |
| Grip Shape | D Shape Profile |
| Fingerboard Radius | 430mm |
| Neck Binding | yes, as on Universe |
| Headstock Type | Reverse, RG style |
| Headstock Angle/Scarf Angel | 14 degrees |
| Headstock Scarf Joint/ Volute | Volute |
| Headstock Binding | yes, as on Universe |
| Headstock Inlay | no |
| Logo | Old style Ibanez with swoosh |
| T.Rod Adjust | Headstock, as per RG |
| Adjust Cover | No |
| Nut/Toplock | Toplock |
| Fretwire | Dunlop…. |
| Side Position | yes, glow in dark dots |
| Inlay |
Special, Inlay in abalone down the length of
neck, Seal of the lord of all fevers and plagues. To be provided in bitmap form. |
| Memo | Reverse Headstock, same top and finish as body |
| Body Material and Structure | |
| Body Style | RG, but with recessed output jack like Jem. |
| Thickness | 5mm more than standard RG |
| Top Material | Quilted Maple |
| Back Material | N/A |
| Wing Material | Swamp Ash |
| Body Binding | Yes, as per neck |
| Roundover | |
| Comfort Cut | |
| Trem Routing | yes, for Edge Pro |
| Control Routing | Rear |
| Neck Joint | Neck Through |
| Memo | |
| Paint-Scheme | |
| Headstock | As per Body, bookmatched |
| Neck back | Black, back of headstock also black |
| Fingerboard | Darkened Rosewood |
| Body Top | Translucent Purple/Violet Sunburst |
| Back&Side | Black |
| Hardware | |
| Machine Head | Gotoh 40:1 tuners |
| Bridge/Trem | Edge Pro, if possible with the old locking studs instead of the new non locking inserts. |
| End Pin Style | |
| Memo | |
| HW Colour | Black |
| Electronics | |
| P.U Config | H/S/H |
| Neck | Dimarzio Air Norton |
| Middle | Dimarzio Blue Velvet |
| Bridge | Dimarzio Tone Zone |
| Escussion | |
| Pickguard | No |
| P.U. Selector | 5 way standard wired |
| Controls | One volue, One tone, One toggle switch (on/off), as per gibson in terms of size. |
| Knobg | Standard knobs as on RG's etc. |
| Cavity Plate | yes |
| Output Jack | Barrel Jack, as per jem routing (recessed) |
| Memo |
Control layout wise, volume in standard place,
maybe 3mm lower than usual, tone pot in normal position, toggle switch approximately where the second volume on a dfouble edge equipped guitar would be, can be moved here or there so as the access panel coincides with that of the output jack, basically this helps as normally the barrel jacks are a pin in the arse to replace with the small cavity they are locvated in. |
| Setup | |
| String Gauge | .10 -> .52's |
| Tuning Pitch | DGCFAD |
| Action Height | Lowish |
| Memo | |
| Model Name | JMC1 |
The guitar was originally meant to have a korina body, but due to problems sourcing instrument quality grade wood I went with Swamp ash with a proper maple top. Turned out to be an excellent choice as the guitar just sings!
As far as the inlay goes I did want something different and dark, so I went for an inlay depicting the seal of Pazuzu, the lord of all fevers and plagues from the necronomicon. As you can see the inlay work is quite intricate, and took a good few months to do!
Also, and it's not on the spec sheet, I had the trem cavity routed out a bit deeper than usual (as well as the 5mm extra body thickness) and when I got the guitar, i replaced the edge pro with a lo pro edge (just preferred the
feel) so although it was delivered with an edge pro, it's spent most of it's life with a lo pro edge.
James
