Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-32082250-20170522223229

I don't know if this is the right place to post this, just realized I wasn't on the ibanez.wikia.com Forum any more, but please feel free to move it, or tell me how to.

I had an Ibanez 1986 RG600WP (Wine Pearl, only color than Trans Black as I understand it). I purchased used in 1986/1987. The biggest selling feature (other than I liking the tone of course) was that my wife liked the color. She called the guitar "Cream Cheese 'n Jally"



 Unfortunately, it was stolen years ago. It had a much smaller purple burst in the center of the top and the purple was much lighter than every other picture of a RG600WP I've seen online in the last ten years. I watched for a RG600WWP on ebay for years, never did see one. I finally did see a RG530WP (passive pups instead of active, Floyd Rose Bridge instead of Fixed Bridge) and bought it. Unfortunately, that too has gone missing.



 The real point of this post, though, is that I have some pictures. None of my 600WP unfortunately, but I do have a catalog picture of it in the Wine Pearl (again, more and darker purple). I also have "real" pictures (film to digital) of the 530WP I had. I'd like to post them here, but have no idea how to do it.



 Also, I'm trying to figure out what the specs of those Pickups (aka Pups) might have been. At the time, I knew nothing about electric guitars; had never played one; only had played acoustics for 10 or 15 years before. I didn't even know the guitar had batteries (the dealer telling me about it), it was a 9VDC, and the two Tone Controls apparently shaped and amplified two different frequency ranges. I liked the tone very much (through my Roland Jazz Chorus 55C, not as mellow as my 1972 Martin D-18, but still a very musical tone, not dark and chunky like so many current Actives) and I might get some other guitar and put Active Pups in it that might be similar to the original RG600. I know the body was Basswood and the Neck Maple (from that online flyer), but I would need to know something about the old Pups to try and recreate that tone. I suspect Ceramic magnets, only because most Active Pups are Ceramic now and Ceramic speakers and pickups were all the rage then.



Any help would be apprciated,

Dave  