Ibanez Guitars RG270 Pick Guard Install

Love to see more videos of this guitar!

Dude, I've been waiting for this video for so long. I have a grg270 that is that exact same guitar and I wanted to know if an standard Ibanez pick guard will fit. Which pick guard exactly did you installed on the guitar?

Great video! I also have a rg270 and installed a pickguard on it that came with it. Really looking forward to your next video haha I hate this trem. If you have that eBay seller info I'd love to replace my pickguard with one that fits the controls better like yours. Thanks!

I have a rg655 prestige and was thinking a hsh pickguard for a rg550 will work. just thinking about a different color pickguard. .do you happen to know if the rg550 pickguard works for the mij rg655?

Got so excited when I saw this in my feed. Great content, man.

have you decided what trem you are going to install.

is there a reason you went with a 550 pickguard ..... do you think a 350 pick guard would fit

A few bits and bobs I like to do around the pickup switch when installing black pickguards - personal preference:

1) Put a little strip of black electrical tape over the slot + screw holes. You can cut the slot with a knife and poke the screw holes with ... the screws. This hides the little sliver of finish showing through if you don't like that look (which I personally don't most of the time).
2) If the guard is a three-ply BWB number then I draw on the white line inside the slot with a marker, again to hide the fact that there's a wide hole in the pickguard.
3) Draw on the top of the switch housing with the same marker, so you don't see that golden nonsense shining through. I do this on all my guitars - pickguard or not - because I personally like the holes and slots to be black as a void. None more black.

really stoked to see the new episode about the bridge replacement

How would I do the opposite, I have a premium rg870 that i bought it used with a pick guard, and I want it gone, how hard would that be? Should I just install a different one?

After you screw the pickguard screws into the body remove the pickguard and put a couple of drops of thin superglue into the screw holes. Don't reinstall the screws until the glue has fully dried. This will harden the threads for the screws and stop them stripping out.

You could have reshaped the pickguard by sanding it a little bit. That way you wouldn't need to reroute the pot holes.

why wouldn't you route the cheap plastic pick guard instead of the guitar

This guitar was made in korea ??

What pick guard do you think i should use on a 3570Z? Any modifications needed?

For future reference, I did the same mod to my RG270 using an RG350 pickguard, it fits much better that this, only a few modifications needed, the pot holes were way off, so I had to redrill them, I also had to sand one corner of the tremolo cutout on the pickguard to make it large enough for the RG270 cavity.
And that's basically it, the HSH cutout is exactly the same, except for the width of the trem cavity, so there's no gap at all and no paint showing anywhere!

Why not add the single coil in the middle?

i wanna get rid of the pickup rings on my grg dx, the only way would be to install a pickguard but id have to get it custom made by a luthier :/ i know its just a grg but I've modded it and fixed most issues with it(myseld) i honestly really like it now

to the cinter of the hole

does this pickguard fit on a grg 121dx and if not which one fits?

How much did it all cost in total for this guitar? I’m thinking it might be the same price in just buying a better used guitar. I mean with good hardware and pickups already in it.
But it sure is fun to mod. :)

Thanks so much for this tutorial!!
I'm doing the exact same project with a 270 I just purchased. I think I'm going to choose some pups that already have the mounting holes pre-installed. Should save some headache imho.

I hope we could get a ibanez pickguard without pots and switch holes.

Does anyone know if it would fit on an RG6003fm?

Very cool videos man love seeing a guitar teansform

Hi, where did you buy it? Is there a link?