I've been interested in buying an Ibanez acoustic/electric six string guitar I saw in the Musician's Friend catalogue.($449.99 there) This is a model EW20QMEBBD that is a cutaway design made with blond
quilted maple top, back and sides. I've been trying to figure out if this guitar is a solid wood rather than laminate instrument, which Musician's Friend website maintains it is though I have serious doubts about that since nothing at the Ibanez website verifys this and at the same place at Musician's Friend's website they say the guitar does not have a pick-up, which it very obviously does and which Ibanez's website confirms.
I say this is too much money to spend for a guitar with laminate construction, but when making descriptions of their guitars makers seem to always tell you specifically if the instrument is made of solid wood, while implying laminates are solids by using less exact terminology in descriptions of those.
Musician's Friend's website has lots of good user feed-back on this particular guitar and I like its looks, but not enough to sacrifice sound and tonality over. And I am just wondering with a hot selling guitar like this how possible it might be for the manufacturer to've added some of the user feed-back comments themselves, being a longtime cynic about the commercial establishment and capitalism generally?(and knowing Ibanez is one of the huge monster sized guitar making companys in the world, etc.)
