Opinions?

[Jacksonguy666]

I dissassembled an rr3. Just the floyd. So It's off the body in a few pieces. My friend really wants an rr3. We talked about a possible trade. Eerie Dess Swirl DK2 for my rhoads sound fair? Here is my justification.
First off: I am WAYYYYYY to lazy to assemble my rhoads again, and he wants to put it back but with better parts. Also, I installed a coil tap and a dimebucker in the bridge. His DK2 has only duncan designeds. But the DK2 has binding and 24 frets, which are EXTREMELY important to me. I think my mind is already made up, but I am wondering your guy's opinion.

(also, I already have a DK2, in the blue orange flames, but the eerie dess swirl is my all time favorite paint job for dinky's/soloists)

[BayRocker]

I'm not a big fan of the Duncan Designed pups, but it kinda sounds like the Rhoads is not the guitar for you...no binding, no 24 frets. Plus you say you might never get around to re-assembling the Rhoads. It does sound like your mind is made up, and it's in your favorite paint scheme, so I'd go for it. My Rhoads is my least played axe, not a great shape for sitting while playing (it just looks damn purty hanging on the wall). I almost always fall back on my Model 4 or DKMG.

[Jacksonguy666]

I actually prefer my firebird the most, it's a mutt, but its LITERALLY everything i have ever wanted in a guitar, but i like to have another guitar. The rhoads was once my go-to guitar, but no longer.

[MartinBarre]

If you don't like the Rhoads, and love the DK2 (both of which seem to be true) then I say go for it. What pickup's in the RR3 neck position? If it's a Jazz or 59 you might ask him if you could at least keep that, and put the DK2 neck Duncan Designed in the RR3?

[Sunbane]

He can't put a neck humbucker into a DK2, since it is H-S-S...

[Jacksonguy666]

Yea. Although I think the reason its a fair trade is because i upgraded the rr. Even though the DK2 doesn't have the best pickups, it has binding and 24 frets.

[MakeAJazzNoiseHere]

It's a lot easier to replace pickups than to add binding and 2 more frets. :idea:

[Jacksonguy666]

It's a lot easier to replace pickups than to add binding and 2 more frets. :idea:

Thats EXACTLY my thinking. Although I could search the bay for a neck, but I don't think they have a bound 22 fret neck, and a 24 fret won't fit correctly, and will have intonation problems, correct? (I have never tried to do this before.) But since the floyd is out already, then wouldn't the intonaton have to be set again?

[MakeAJazzNoiseHere]

It's not that there was never a bound 22-fret Charvel or Jackson neck produced, it's finding one that's in good shape. Actually a Model 475 neck would probably work. 22 fret, bound, shark tooth inlays.

Putting a DK2 or similar neck on your RR3 would require a lot more than an intonation adjustment. That's not what people mean when they say swapping 22 fret for 24 fret or vice-versa on a Jackson mean. Adjusting intonation like you'd have to do when you put that bridge back together is nothing, really, that's not what is stopping people from doing that kind of swap. The bridge is just flat out in the wrong spot. Out of the range of adjustment.

[MartinBarre]

He can't put a neck humbucker into a DK2, since it is H-S-S...

Ha ha, excuse me, I only had my DK2 for a couple of weeks and hardly bothered with it except to harvest the neck.

[DonP]

First off: I am WAYYYYYY to lazy to assemble my rhoads again

This.

Trade the parts off and be done with it. A box of parts aren't as fun as a working guitar.

[Jacksonguy666]

I thought about a warmoth, but I'm too lazy, to do much of anything.

[Killertofu]

send it to me and i'll put it back together

i say reassemble the rhoads because its the better axe imo.

Duncan Designs suck big ones, BTW.