J-Custom Egypt - Pic???

[Monty]

Does anybody have a picture or an url about this guitar? Maybe more info/specs?

[Kevan]

Specs:
•Basswood body; maple neck; maple fretboard.
•Body is hand-carved, hand-wood burned and hand-painted. *Matching headstock.
•Pickups- Probably Tone Zone, Blue Velvet, Air Norton.
•Only one on the planet, and the guy who owns it won't return my phone calls.
•Price: *$5000.

I've been trying to acquire it for 4 years now. *
Enjoy the pic. *It's the only one I've ever found.

[Todd Crawford]

And I got to see it in person, the week after it was at the NAMM show......in a glass case, under lock and key, at Guitar Gallery in Disney, continuously reinacting the Waynes World scene where Wayne is starring at the Strat......wishing I could be him saying "today, I'm going to buy it!"

Note to Kev: for some reason, I'd be willing to bet money the phone number you have is NOT the Egypt owner.

[Kevan]

Todd- you could be right, but I have the guy's home and business numbers. *

If he's not the current owner, he certainly knows who he sold it to *:-)

[lgascoig]

Man after hearing all the hype and buildup on the RG-Egypt on this forum I was expecting something totally different than the picture... *I kind of expected graphcis like the Iron Maiden Powerslave cover but instead it looks like a bunch of stickers on a wood finish...

[Jimi D]

Igascoig ~ It's hand carved fer krist's sake... have some respect man! :glare:

[Kevan]

You guys didn't really expect HC to spend more than 3.4 seconds at the Ibanez booth, did you?

They're the Ansel Adams of Ibanez guitar photography, huh? *
Rrrriiiiigggghhhhtttt.

(Edited by Kevan at 12:52 am on April 22, 2001)

[Project Guitar]

Quote: from Jimi D on 12:41 am on April 22, 2001
Igascoig ~ It's hand carved fer krist's sake... have some respect man! :glare:

LMAO that is without a doubt the best post I have seen all nite!

[Todd Crawford]

lgascoig- Trust me, I have NEVER seen a guitar with this much detail. That pic doesnt do it justice. All of that work is routed in the body about 3mm, then hand painted. Even the headstock is routed.

[Monty]

Thanx for posting a picture. Maybe i'll never gonna see it in real life, but it looks ok to me, but $ 5000? Damn... i wouldn't have paid that much.

[lgascoig]

I guess you can't tell from that pic. *It looks like one of those guitars that show up on **** when you search for Jem but it's really someone trying to sell an RG they changed the pu's on and slapped a couple of stickers on for good measure.

[Christopher Chen]

Hey Kevan every thought of commissioning a custom shop to do you one just like that? It would be pretty cool.

I find it really hard to belive that information on this guitar is shrouded with such a vast amount of mystery! What do the folks at Ibanez have to say about this guitar? I wonder.

Chris.

[gkelm]

That's intersting to see. *I always had in mind the "Egypt" as a guitar pic i saw that had a full-color Pharoah's head screened onto the top...that must have been a Schecter custom shop?
Greg

[Kevan]

Here are a couple other Egyptian motif guitars I've found on the 'net.

Big thanks to Peter McGilton's site- www.ExoticGuitars.com for the pics. *
AMAZING artist, and a nice guy too!


Price: *Starts at $15,000. USD.
Don't forget to check out the other true works of art at Peter's site. *Dragon Lyre anyone?


From our Ibanez-friendly folks over at GMW Guitars/Empire Guitars:

Price: *I think this one sold for just over $10,000. USD.
Be sure to check out some other WICKED ones here:http://www.gmwguitars.com/empirecustoms.html. *Some sweet tops and AMAZING inlay work.


Last, from the guys at Fend*r- a tasty Tele:

Price: *No clue.
To see more Fend*r Custom Shop guitars, Click Here.

[Rich]

Greg, that the *other* Ibanez Egypt, I used to have a pic of it.