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Publié le 13/09/11 à 03:03
(contenu en anglais)
Most J-Customs are known to have super gaudy vine inlays, and while I love the vine inlays, there are times when I think that they would look a lot better with a more conservative look. This was Ibanez's attempt at helping make the guitar a bit less showy. The guitar has a mahogany body with a flame maple top, a maple neck, rosewood fretboard with 24 frets, offset dot inlays, an Ibanez Edge Pro tremolo, HSH configuration, all access neck joint, one volume, one tone and a five way switch.
UTILIZATION
First off, the frets are AMAZING on this guitar. The guitar really couldn't be any more perfect in terms of fretwork when it came to the edges. They're rounded and balled, so they're super comfortable when moving up and down the neck. They were also perfectly level, so you could get any action you wanted without any issues of fretting out due to low frets. The flame top on this looked amazing, and it really stood out. I also liked the reserved offset dot inlays going on with this model. It gave it some class and helped differentiate itself from the normal vine inlays J-Customs.
SOUNDS
The guitar had a more unique combination to it when compared to other J-Customs out there. It had a Steve's Special in the bridge, Blue Velvet in the middle and PAF Pro in the neck. The Steve's Special is a more scooped pickup, and given that mahogany is actually a fairly mid heavy wood, it worked quite nicely. It was clean sounding, had the right amount of compression and gave some great split tones with the Blue Velvet. The PAF Pro in the neck was also very clean and clear sounding. It worked great in mahogany as the mids helped thicken this pickup up and give it some extra grunt that it normally doesn't have.
OVERALL OPINION
If you ever come across one of these, I recommend buying it immediately. They're price, but they really are worth every penny. The fretwork on these is some of the best in the world, and I'm not exaggerating. It's easily on par with Suhr, Anderson, Tyler and the such. In fact, I generally prefer the J-Custom's fretwork as they tend to be balled which the others aren't. The pickups in this are great, the trem is the best in the world, everything about this guitar is prefect, really.
UTILIZATION
First off, the frets are AMAZING on this guitar. The guitar really couldn't be any more perfect in terms of fretwork when it came to the edges. They're rounded and balled, so they're super comfortable when moving up and down the neck. They were also perfectly level, so you could get any action you wanted without any issues of fretting out due to low frets. The flame top on this looked amazing, and it really stood out. I also liked the reserved offset dot inlays going on with this model. It gave it some class and helped differentiate itself from the normal vine inlays J-Customs.
SOUNDS
The guitar had a more unique combination to it when compared to other J-Customs out there. It had a Steve's Special in the bridge, Blue Velvet in the middle and PAF Pro in the neck. The Steve's Special is a more scooped pickup, and given that mahogany is actually a fairly mid heavy wood, it worked quite nicely. It was clean sounding, had the right amount of compression and gave some great split tones with the Blue Velvet. The PAF Pro in the neck was also very clean and clear sounding. It worked great in mahogany as the mids helped thicken this pickup up and give it some extra grunt that it normally doesn't have.
OVERALL OPINION
If you ever come across one of these, I recommend buying it immediately. They're price, but they really are worth every penny. The fretwork on these is some of the best in the world, and I'm not exaggerating. It's easily on par with Suhr, Anderson, Tyler and the such. In fact, I generally prefer the J-Custom's fretwork as they tend to be balled which the others aren't. The pickups in this are great, the trem is the best in the world, everything about this guitar is prefect, really.