Excellent value plays really well, looks great!!
This guitar is a great value for me, here's what I like;
Looks great (and headstock is beautiful)
24 fret (dot inlays, didn't want shark)
Upper fret access couldn't be better.
Tremolo bar
Really dark fretboard (not ebony of course, but super nice)
Dot inlays and side inlays are BRIGHT white, easy for me to see.
Fingers slide up and down the fretboard with ease, which is not
true of some of my other guitars, fingers tend to hang up on some,
I could not ask for better frets.
Cons/what I don't like:
Set up was INCREDIBLY HORRIBLE, really omg,
I don't know who was responsible, vendor/ibanez, hard
to say, but the neck was BOWED like 1/8th of an inch or
so , I mean ackk!! I thought I would need to send it back.
The allen key that came with was a sloppy fit, too loose
which could have stripped out the tension rod, so I found
a tighter one in my tool bin, cranked the neck to about
flat, then , NO MORE problems.
The pickups seem to be muddy, definition in chording seems weak,
single note lead playing is perfect, it's just 'chording' , my other
guitars seem to have better clarity for chording, I haven't swapped
out the pups yet, I have a set of SD Sat Night Specials, ready
to try.
I say seems, because, since I haven't chgd' pups yet, I don't know
for sure the source/why it feels muddy.
This is the only neg thing I would say about the guitar.
I have some name brand guitars, and have owned hundreds, this
is my main guitar right now, I love it !!
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Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: New
