Jackson RR3/Charvel Pro Mod mutt

[Zedder]

I was thinking of building a mutt using a Jackson RR3 (MIJ) body and a Charvel Pro Mod (MIM) neck. Scale is same on both and both have 22 frets. Would there be problems with neck pocket or intonation, what do you think?

[Zedder]

I bought a RR3 body and a new unbranded 22 fret strat neck from ebay. Putting them together was pretty easy and FRT-1000 trem intonated nicely. Actually the most difficult thing was to find right place for upper strap button: when it was on it´s original location guitar was very neck heavy. I moved it to neck plate and problem was solved. And because this is kind of replica I had to modify neck joint a little bit. This guitar is at least partially a Jackson because it has RR3 body and J-50B -humbucker...

Anyway, here it is, my strathead RR:

[Number Of The Priest]

That's interesting, and glad it intonates without issues! What did you do to modify the neck joint? And what did you do to cut away the body near the upper frets?

[toejam]

That looks pretty neat!

[Zedder]

What did you do to modify the neck joint? And what did you do to cut away the body near the upper frets?

I replaced the standard neck plate with an asymmetric one and rounded off the corner:



This made upper fret access easier, but it was not the main reason to do this modification.

I used a small hacksaw to cut the body. On the original Kai Hansen guitar (as seen on Helloween´s I Want Out video) those cut areas were left unfinished but I thought that it looked too rough..

[Number Of The Priest]

After cutting, you just painted over the unfinished area? That looks very well done! Nice and smooth and seamless!

[Metal Spawn]

Very nice! Reminds me of Kai Hansen's V in the 'I Want Out' video...