GS270 (5)

I'm particular with the drying of paint / lacquer. I discovered that putting it out in the sun gets the job done very well. If paint / lacquer does not cure properly, it will turn sticky & react with the guitar bag's / case's interior & it would mean re-finishing the body once more. Grateful that the weather had been scorching hot days ago & the drying turned out well.

To be concluded...

MORK @ SOLAR

Mork's Thomas Eriksen & Alex Bruun are now in the SOLAR camp. Heck, yeah!

Prism mini

After some deliberations & watching many review videos before sleep, I went with Laney's Prism mini ($185 @ Davis GMC). More updates soon.

New saddles

I dislike vintage-type bent saddles. As depicted above, that's how much grip space each saddle has if you need to raise the action. When you shim the neck pocket, the corresponding necessary adjustment would be raising the action to accommodate the new tilt angle. Bent saddles are just unsuitable for this rectification.

Also, the width of those bent saddles are 10mm each. These are not commonly sold at the shops. Most saddles are meant for the super-Strat type string spacing, these are 10.5mm each. The moment I saw these 10mm saddles available online, I knew they would accommodate my needs.

Price watch (107)

Ibanez fans would know, the RG7320EX is a 7-string model. This here is not a 7-string & the details look sus. One more time - let's not waste our time & money dealing with someone who doesn't know what s/he is selling.

GS270 (4)

Decal arrived today. I've stopped using the water-slide version. It's messy & fragile, certainly not for a novice like me. This here is the rub-on transfer version. Material is thicker than the water-slide version & dried up a lot faster.

The set of tuners there is the ARM brand. Virtually unknown & very affordable. I've realized that if you go for the cheaper set, more often than not, they would turn out dodgy. However, if you opt for something cheap but branded, regardless of the brand's obscurity, they would turn out better. I didn't know the ARM brand existed before this episode.

To be continued...