Ibanez Fireman FRM200

[solderburn]

This guitar belongs to my little brother, and is mostly stock, i just made a few cosmetic changes and added a killswitch. The FRM200 is awesome, the PG13 mini buckers are sparkly, yet powerful, and the neck is like a baseball bat, yet oddly enables shredding, sustain for days.  I can see why it's my brother's favorite guitar.

I modded it for him because in my old age I'm starting to feel guilty due to how i treated him when we were kids, I'd do stuff like hold him down in the corner and fart on him, call him names, ect.. Maybe that's typical big brother stuff, but nonetheless, I feel like i need to be extra nice to him now that we're grown up.  

I ordered the custom made 5-ply white pickguard online, it finally arrived today so i got to work. I added the arcade killswitch, white toggle tip, white Gibson style speed knobs, and white truss rod cover. The look kinda reminds me of Buckethead's signature all white Les Paul, which is appropriate because The Fireman is the signature guitar of Paul Gilbert, and he's one of Buckethead's teachers. Both killer shredders.  It's a wierd shape but surprisingly comfortable and well balanced standing up or sitting down. 


Anyway, i think it looks pretty sharp, and I imagine he'll be pleased.






Stock





Finished

[newey]

Nice! I'm sure little bro will be pleased.

[solderburn]

Thanks, newey!  He loves it.  But he didn't say that exactly.  His words were "It looks appropriate."  haha. Which means i did good. 

[MattB]

Very nice. I love the big killswitch button; it's something really different but it looks perfectly at home on that guitar.

[cynical1]

Yeah, I like the killswitch, too. Clever...and functional. I could never master those little friggon" buttons.

HTC1

[solderburn]

MattB and cynical1  Thanks fellas!  I think it's neat that an actual arcade switch will work on guitar, and Sanwa is the same brand that's used in most old-school Japanese arcade cabinets.  I read that they're designed to take over 10,000,000 hits.