Who owns a SZ520QM or a SA160QM

[M Kactus]

Or favorably both I'm in the doubt between these two, and I'm planning on going to my local shop, but is there anybody here who can point out the difference? In style to play? Of course I know I'll have to check it out meself, but that won't be a problem, the problem'll be dragging me away from them after 4 hours

M Kactus

[M Kactus]

I don't seem to find it in the catalogs, or on the ibanez site... Only when say country is USA... And it isn't Is this model only available in the US?

M Kactus

[darren wilson]

The international sites may not be updated yet with the SZ line.

In my view, Ibanez is getting further and further away from the core "S" line. Calling the SZ an evolution of the S is really misleading, because it has almost nothing in common with the original Saber design, except for the body's silhouette outline.

The SZ and SA are different beasts. The SZ is a set neck, 25.1" scale, thick-bodied fixed-bridge guitar, whereas the SA is thinner, bolt-on, 25.5" scale with a trem.

It all depends on what you're looking for. Oh, also, on the SA, the quited maple is nothing more than a paper-thin veneer. Dunno how thick it is on the SZ.