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Old 11-24-2007, 05:52 AM
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Help needed to identify this guitar


Hi guys

http://img454.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc6151wu2.jpg

i am going to purchase a used ibanez next week.. but im still unsure
in which the model it is.. neither do the seller..

SPECS:
- 24 frets
- SSH
- 5-way
- 1 vol 1 tone (push-pull coil tap for tone knob)
- 1 switch (I dunno what it is for)
- Floyd Rose licensed trem (Lo Pro i guess??)
- Gotoh tuners
- Serial no. F 723719 (Fujigen 87?)


It looks like an old Radius but it has 24 frets? RG560 perhaps?
i really need help from you pros to identify this axe for me...

replies are very much appreciated..


Thanks
DAVE
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Old 01-03-2008, 09:05 AM
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Re: Help needed to identify this guitar


Ever find out?

It's definitely NOT a Radius body. Looks like an RG to me. [I'm no expert on RGs, but I have 3 JS's and 4 Radius'.]

Hard to tell, but looks more like an orig. Edge than an Edge Lo Pro. So, that's a good sign.
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Old 01-03-2008, 09:11 AM
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Re: Help needed to identify this guitar


I think it is a 540P, the power series from late 86-87, and the first guitar Satch played, before switching to the 540R and then to the JS series.

Grab it!
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Old 01-03-2008, 10:05 AM
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Re: Help needed to identify this guitar


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I think it is a 540P, the power series from late 86-87, and the first guitar Satch played, before switching to the 540R and then to the JS series.

Grab it!
540P is 22 fret..I would say it's in the realm of the 560s....mabye an
avalible in Japan only version..

Rich...you out there?
I know this is an old post but just for referance sake could you clarify this for us???
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Old 01-03-2008, 10:46 AM
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Re: Help needed to identify this guitar


The trem is definitely an Edge, not a LoPro, notice how the finetuners are placed over the extended bolts of the locking saddles.
(that wouldn't rule out actual Floyd Rose, Schaller or low-end Ibanez bridges, but all in all it seems to look like an Edge).

The body shape seems to be a combination of RG and S factors. It has the flat elbow part of the RG body, but the cutaways seem to be rounded like the S.
This pretty much sums up the Power body shape: http://www.ibanezrules.com/catalogs/us/1988/p_3.jpg

However, that still doesn't explain the 24 frets, pickup combination and control arrangement.
It could be a custom model, it could have been customized later (someone may have put an RG neck onto the body, and it seems the cutaways are rounded out further aswell, perhaps to match the 24 frets?), or it's perhaps just a stock model that wasn't mentioned in the 1988 catalog (I think 1988 was the only year the Power was made?).
Or approach it from the other direction... it's an RG and someone rounded off the points on the cutaways, making it look more like a Power or S shape.
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Old 01-03-2008, 09:36 PM
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Re: Help needed to identify this guitar


'87 Roadstar.

I've never seen an 87 Catalog so not sure if these were available in Europe and North America but the cheaper version of that Roadstar is in the '88 catalog.

http://www.ibanezrules.com/catalogs/...oadstar3_3.jpg
http://www.ibanezrules.com/catalogs/...oadstar3_4.jpg
http://www.ibanez87.it/foto/catalogh...40/scan/01.jpg
http://www.ibanez87.it/foto/catalogh...40/scan/02.jpg


http://img454.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc6151wu2.jpg
This was probably the best Roadstar available in '87 and was replaced by the RG560 in '88.
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Old 01-04-2008, 12:29 AM
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'87 Roadstar.

I've never seen an 87 Catalog so not sure if these were available in Europe and North America but the cheaper version of that Roadstar is in the '88 catalog.

http://www.ibanezrules.com/catalogs/...oadstar3_3.jpg
http://www.ibanezrules.com/catalogs/...oadstar3_4.jpg
http://www.ibanez87.it/foto/catalogh...40/scan/01.jpg
http://www.ibanez87.it/foto/catalogh...40/scan/02.jpg


http://img454.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc6151wu2.jpg
This was probably the best Roadstar available in '87 and was replaced by the RG560 in '88.
But the pickup selector is cut at a different angle then in the catalog. And the knobs are closer together as well, I'm betting its a homemade body.
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Old 01-04-2008, 05:10 AM
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Re: Help needed to identify this guitar


Yea, it looks like it could be a Roadstar body with a 24-fret RG neck on it (it has the big dots from the RG neck, Roadstars used smaller dots, and I've never seen a 24-fret Roadstar at all), and the lower horn looks different. The cutaway seems deeper, and the tip isn't round, but looks much like the older Roadstar tips.
Could be because it was cut out deeper by hand.

Perhaps a conversion of one of these bodies: http://www.ibanezrules.com/catalogs/us/1986/p08.jpg
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Old 01-04-2008, 05:25 AM
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Re: Help needed to identify this guitar


Find a '87 Japanese catalog and you'll have your answer.
86/87/88 Ibanez did 100 variations of the Roadstar - this is one of them.

See the first two guitars in this catalog

http://www.ibanez87.it/foto/catalogh...n/cat87-03.jpg

It's most def a more expensive variation of these.
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Old 01-05-2008, 02:55 PM
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Re: Help needed to identify this guitar


If it was a 240PR body with a 24 fret neck without moving the neck pickup inward to accommodate more frets, wouldn't it be impossible to intonate?
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