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I've been playing 14 years, and I owe 90% of my playing to Ibanez and I have always regarded them as the best company out there. I've owned a
Prestige 3120 for 7 years and I own a 1997 Jem 777 w/ ebony fretboard
and original Dimarzio pickups. I started out with an RG 270-DX. Still have the neck, which is matted to a midnight blue Prestige 1570 body
I now build guitars and would like to share them with you guys seeing as they are slightly modeled off the RG platform This is a personal guitar of mine.
The Black Beauty Specs:
- Solid Black Walnut Distressed and Burnt body with Satin Finish with "Wax effect"
- Three peice neck:
- 2 outside strips of Honduras Mohogany
- Middle strip of 100-125 year old Black Walnut handed down from
my Grandfather.
- Ebony fretboard with Pearl dots and white side dots
- Neck is a "bolt-in" style. Similar to
PRS and SG's in that the heel lies underneath the neck pickup so there is no big heel sitting under the 17th frets and up. Full access!!
- Jumbo Frets
- 43mm nut
- Brass Nut with a "Multi Angle textured finish"
- Gotoh Cosmo Black Large Post Tuneomatic, Recessed.
- Gotoh 510 18/1 ratio Cosmo Black Tuners
- All other hardware is Brushed Brass.
- Seymour Duncan TB-5 Trembucker spaced Duncan Custom 5 Bridge Pickup
- Seymour Duncan Alnico Pro II Neck pickup
- Cosmo Black Tuners with Coil tap's for both pickups for versatility.
- The headplate is not a Veneer, it is technicaly an inlay. It is an 1/8th thick peice of bookmatched figured walnut inlayed in the headstock.
- Pickups are direct mounted
- String through ferrels exit through the top directly and there is brass tubes set in place to keep the strings from digging into the wood.
- 10 degree angle headstock and low angle string break for a super slinky feel.
- Hemp handle, hand applied and hand stitched.
The layout of the guitar is meant to be played in classical possition for optimum efficiency. It also sits well in your legs standing up for tapping style. I've been much influenced by Chapman stick players and Stanley Jordan so it is both a guitar and tapping instrument
I will be very sad to see this thing go. This is my 4th guitar I've built and this thing plays.
The thing sounds unbelievable. The Custom Five bridge pickup is in your face with harmonics that sustain for day. Split coil/first position is that traditional sparkly Fender sound, but in the middle mixed with the Alnico II provides sounds from twangy and acoustic or full bodied with bot humbuckers full.
The neck is slightly larger than Wizard. Typical Wizards are 19mm to 20mm at the 12th fret. This is 21mm to 22mm, but similar "flat" shape to wizard. The satin finish feels nice and the neck plays like you'd expect from a shreding guitar.
The tone from the Walnut is midrangy and punchy. Very punchy. However this walnut is really light!! Very light for walnut. As such it has a very airy acoustic sound. Think swamp ash with more bite and punch. And yes, it sustains.
This is a mean guitar and trust me when I say, I wont be horribly sad if it doesn't sell and I "have to" keep it for myself
Right now I am looking for $2,100 with case, not including shipping. I am open to offers, but please be respectful this is a handbuilt guitar, much time and energy has been put into this thing.
Let me know what you guys think!
Located in South Florida
Cheers!
PS. If you know RX Bandits, both Matt Embree and Steve Choi played the guitar. Steve Choi said it "played like butter" hehe
