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Ibanez SA160

Advantages: Very light and thin but maintains chunky sound.
Disadvantages: Not the greatest pickups

After testing various guitars, I decided on this korean made SA160. It's got 22 frets/medium on its neck and is made out of 3pc. maple neck material. It has a transparent finish and I decided on transparent gray as there was only a choise between greay and orange and I much preferred the grey. This amazing looking guitar had a SAT30 bridge which I guess is suitable for the type of music its meant for. Only two volume knobs are provided though, the classic volume and tone. However a 5-way selector gives you the ability to play various style's of music. It has a 2-1-1 pickup configuration. IBZ AS2 (S) neck pickup, IBZ AS2 (S) mid pickup, IBZ AH4 (H) bridge pickup. My style goes from heavy metal e.g. Metallica, Megadeth, SikTh to Grunge e.g. Nirvana to blues e.g. Stevie Ray Vaughan. I still find it amazing that a guitar for this price is ...

Pown 20.11.2006 · Read full review
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Tiger under the quilt

Advantages: Ibanez quality
Disadvantages: You might not want to part with it

I've owned my Ibanez SA160QM for about a year now, I travel a lot and wanted something of reasonable quality that I could put in the car and take around with me. Unfortunately, not long after I realised that this guitar was just that little bit too good to carry round, as I was always worrying about it getting stolen from the back of the car. I opted for this Ibanez partly because I was very happy with the RG370DX I already owned, and partly because it looks so nice. My model is the QM, which stands for Quilted Maple and my particular model is a very pretty transparent blue which shows the quilting beautifully. Specifications: 'Sabre' body shape 3pc SA neck, maple with rosewood fingerboard Pearl Dot Inlay Mahogany body with quilted maple top 22 Medium frets Rosewood Finger Board SAT30 tremelo bridge IBZ AS2 (Single ...

matsu65 05.09.2005 · Read full review
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Ibanez IC400 Iceman - Let There Be Rock!

Advantages: Lightweight, Low Action, Awesome Shape
Disadvantages: Large Headstock.

-Ibanez IC400 Iceman- Wow, i have not written a review in YEARS! Since 2005! I feel like my heads about to explode. You'll have to bare with me on this one cause ive got to get back into the swing of things. As with every guitar, the Iceman has a history. Hoshino Gakki, the developer of the Iceman, wanted to make a distinctly Japanese looking guitar, as, before this time, Ibanez had been making replica copies of Fender Strats and Gibson Les Pauls and such. So after a meeting between Ibanez, and another guitar manufacturer, Greco, the "Iceman" design was born. Ibanez got the distributing rights for outside of Japan, and Greco for in Japan. Thats pretty much the history. So now for the guitar itself!! I picked it up second hand from ebay for about 350 quid, although you can buy them new nowadays for anywhere between 420 and 470 ...

helpa4eva 25.09.2008 · Read full review
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