Chrome-looking JEM PHOTO - Vai Dimarzio Ad

[cerealk]

Prior to the london gigs (dec 2001) the guitar had a chrome vine, after it had dot inlay due to the SIMS lights.

Simon

[jerrye]

Originally Posted by cerealk

Prior to the london gigs (dec 2001) the guitar had a chrome vine, after it had dot inlay due to the SIMS lights.

Simon

Echo...Echo...Echo...Echo...Echo...

i feel for you man, how many time have you got to say it for people to listen.

i've thought about a 'real' chrome jem for more then a little while and i'm just not totally convinced that it would look as good as the js10th/js2 as the curves make the reflection so much nicer. (speaking photographically) i clear (js2k) type jem with internal 'lazer' etching would work, but cost about as much as a small island in the med to produce.

Jerry

[Allen Garrow]

Yeah, I must agree the prospects of a new jem of such mag' would be pretty awesome, vines or sims? Hummm tuff one. I had mentioned a long time ago on how cool it would be to have a mirror ball sytle jem like the warlock Paul Stanley plays, and have a mirror vine on the neck. That broken mirror affect is just timeless!
~A

[cerealk]

yes it is good isnt it...

http://www.vai.com/Machines/guitarpages/guitar037.html

[Allen Garrow]

That universe is cool,,, those are like bedazzle buttons or something. The one I'm speaking of is the broken mirror iceman. Yeah, check this link out .....
http://www.electricguitar.50megs.com/favorite.htm
~A

[GonWild]

...the thing is...the guitar got a sustainer!!
I remember reading an interview with steve, a few years ago, where he said he was working on this tour-de-force guitar. Maybe this is it?
Puh-lease make this a production model! A jem with a sustainer! For us mortals to play around with! How cool wouldnt that be!! I was thinking of replacing my dbk with a vsbl, with the new edge, but hearing such news about this superb jem...I'm tempted to wait a little longer...

[darren wilson]

Originally Posted by www.vai.com

Ibanez have since experimented with the reflective material considerably before perfecting the process of bending it over the curved section of the body.

http://www.vai.com/Machines/guitarpages/guitar113.html

Why would Ibanez spend the time and resources "perfecting" the process for a one-off model? Sounds like it's being seriously considered for production. If they couldn't make it work, they wouldn't put it on the market.

Sounds nice, if it's got binding and a black back. I'm curious as to whether it'll be equipped with a sustainer and Sims LEDs. I'd bet on the former, but wouldn't count on the latter. Hopefully they do something a little nicer than standard dots, though. Or leave the fretboard blank and let people do their own inlay if they want. A nice blank bound ebony fretboard and mirrored headstock would look really sweet on that guitar.

[cerealk]

Originally Posted by darren wilson

Sounds nice, if it's got binding and a black back. I'm curious as to whether it'll be equipped with a sustainer and Sims LEDs. I'd bet on the former, but wouldn't count on the latter. Hopefully they do something a little nicer than standard dots, though. Or leave the fretboard blank and let people do their own inlay if they want. A nice blank bound ebony fretboard and mirrored headstock would look really sweet on that guitar.

I suspect the inlay will be like when it left the Ibanez custom shop, i.e. a chrome vine

[Ekim]

Chrome pyramids would be a better choice. What would be even better would be if they did both and let you pick. And while I'm dreaming...

[jerrye]

i'm interested on the lazer / laser effect on the headstock. any close-ups??
Jerry
:P

[darren wilson]

Originally Posted by jerrye

i'm interested on the lazer / laser effect on the headstock. any close-ups??

http://www.simscustom.com/laser/headstock.asp

I'm pretty sure that Ibanez headstock in the photos is likely to be Steve's.

[jerrye]

Ahh, now i'm with it i thought it would be an effect for the headstock not an actual laser pointing out of the top. oh well free laser eye correction in the front two rows anyone???

better put my shades on.

jerry

[Gabe Nickelson]

http://www.simscustom.com/laser/headstock.asp

I'm pretty sure that Ibanez headstock in the photos is likely to be Steve's.[/quote]

Maybe, but that photo has been on the site for at least a couple years. I don't think Steve had BH2 that long ago. On a side note - notice on the Jem 'lights on' photo the hardware is off? Yet the 'lights off' photo has the hardware?

Gabe

[cerealk]

Thomas, Steve's guitar tech told me in person that the neck on the chrome jem had been changed in the first few days of December 2001.

[MM]

Steve has two guitars with lasers in the headstock and SIMS LEDs (apart from the sparkle strat).

The shot on the SIMS website is actually a JEM7DBK. The laser in the headstock on that particular guitar pokes out a little bit. On the mirror-fronted Jem, it's recessed into the headstock.

Thought you'd be interested to know that

- Mikey