I used to hunt Gibsons and prs guitars but since I've owned my first IBANEZ I fell in love. One of the best priced brand on the market. Quality is amazing.
I was approached with a [low level] endorsement contract in the late 00's or the early 10's and that was the main reason I wasn't interested : ending having to use a single brand while not getting paid for it, and even havig to pay, although with a big discount, for the custom shop... Actually, they can't even reach the specs of what I use due to patents like the needle-bearings trem bar or the 90/10 neck (Vigier), the floating table (Leduc), 100+ years old woods (Leduc, Xavier Petit), etc etc... Actually, I only own a single Ibanez that is a cheap Talman acoustic, well, as a pure acoustic, it sucks but when you use the piezos in a PA, that's OK, so it's really cool to take her to play in bars where I don't want to take risks for my 1975 Aria "lawsuit" J-200 copy. Thus, I know similar stuff to the Japan-CS since I own a Roland G-707 that was built by the Fujigen Gakki's Custom Shop. I tend to prefer old Matsumoku stuff with neckthru to Fujigen's stuff...
@@frankthetank-4857If it was the case, I would usea JEM Custom Shop Artist instead of the Vigier Excalibur. I also rejected a Fender endorsement, BTW. The best solid body guitar I had in hands over 40 years is the Vigier Passion III-9/10... You're unlikely to ever touch one of these : only 46 were built, I own two of these. My favourite Ibanez is the Artfield AFD-45, thus, they should have made it as a neckthru... could have been better... FIY, Ibanez (Hoshino Gakki) stopped building guitars in 1966... ALL under this brand were ghostbuilt since. For the MiJ ones, they're mainly OEM built by Fujigen Gakki, thus, most of neckthru high end, at least until 1987, seems clearly out of Matsumoku's... If you want real serious guitars, they're near all from small companies making only high end destined to professional musicians, other great stuff comes from independent artisans. Master luthier Chris Leduc, who built 6 of my instruments, got an incredible offer to work at Fender's custom shop and turned it down... I was jealous when he used 250yo woods for Ritchie Blackmore's guitar : the oldest wood I have on my Leducs is only a 1895 Brazilian rosewood... I also have 50's Honduran mahogany and 1920's padauk used on my Leducs... My 2 main mahogany guitars were built by late Xavier Petit who used a ca.1905 Honduan mahogany... I managed to get Leduc's 1895 rosewood reaching the fretboard This one loks a bit like a PRS but weights as much as a LesPaul, the other one looks like a Charvel San Dimas and fits the job of a 1963 SG. By the way, in a blind test vs. a 1960 "burst" Les Paul, the X.Petit "PRS" won... The owner of the 1960 LP thought it was his guitar as the XP one sounded better. I'm now considering to buy some 8000, 10,000 and even 60,000 years old woods for the next ones...
Insane beauty and flair.🔥 Ibanez J-Custom has been my favorite 24 fret brand - it set's the benchmark for the rest. (the rolled ball end frets looks fantastic!)🤘
Andy interesting display, I recently purchased a J-Line RG6HSH, it’s kinda a non trem RG550, absolutely my bar gigging guitar. Plays so well, I got to get better at playing it, cheers.
How totally fun! I’ ll take the Koa, please! It will go with my first guitar I received for Christmas as a kid, a baby blue S style Ibanez which I still have…oh that was 60 years ago, by the way.
It's funny when we have Paul Reed Smith (the person) on the other spectrum that maintain the tone wood ideology and we have companies like Ibanez and ESP which sorta challenge that believe and makes guitar with some unconventional material
Please bring back the SZ520QM - 25.1 inch scale, HH, 3-on-the-side headstock, big comet on the 12th fret (no dots!!!) and chrome pickup rings. That was one of the most unique instruments you ever built: It looked gorgeous, played exceptionally well,and got more tones that you can wish for with the middle split+independent volume configuration. I'm a lefty and selling that guitar was the biggest regret of my life - I just can't find another one (I think the one I sold ended up on Reverb at some point). If I have to have only one guitar for the rest of my life, that will be it.
@@MrGarry2u the Lo-Pro Edge is my favorite trem of all time. Feels great on the hand, it's super stable, stays in tune forever, flutters like butter for days and looks absolutely beautiful. I love them so much that I even have a bunch of extras for future projects. The locking studs also make the Edge series extremely great.
Totally true they do great musical builds at every price point and that's not true with most manufacturers not to the degree that they follow through with amen
I own guitars by lots of manufacturers and love them all for difg reasons. I can say hands dowm when i pick up my Japanese made jem the fretwork and feel of it is simply amazing. I dont really even prefer thin necks..most times i seek out a little bit thicker, but damn if that thing isnt amazing under the fingers. Ibanez is a great builder
Dan's love and energy is infectious! I have to agree with 100% of what he says here. Ibanez is my all-time favourite guitar maker, too. These new J Customs are not something that people were clamouring for, but they are definitely worthy of being revered!
With new body styles, even when utilizing existing shape, but changing the materials, would have been nice to see a different inlay design. The vine thing was cool when I first saw it, but with these wood and acrylic bodies, I would have loved to see a new inlay design to compliment it.
I wish the Jem guitar necks weren’t so wide. They’re really made for Steve and most people prefer a different neck profile. Looks great and sounds great but I just can’t imagine myself using this guitar . Maybe I should try one again.
I have a prestige 7 2027xvv I would like it stripped and upgraded to new modern specs. Refitted with pia pickups and new everything. Is that even possible?
You can't go wrong with an Ibanez. I recently bought a Schecter which costs half more brand new and my Ibanez 270 DX still feels like a superior instrument.
I always feel the same with my Vigiers compared to all Fenders and Ibanez I've touched over 40 years: The Vigiers still feel and sound like superior instruments
I got the affordable GSA60-Gio Walnut definitly a Ibanez already there. A well made and good looking sleak guitar and there after them will be as more and better but resin.. that is a step in the heading of the Toys department.
I have an RG burled wood Edition Ibanez guitar and the thing looks like the last seen on Trading Places and I named her Ophelia cuz it looked like that water and that Island stuff so it happens with name
@@TheGuitarGeek - Great answers and a bonus. Raise a glass and prost (or whatever the local dialect may say) to your lady. I always let the ads roll for your videos to get you that full USA ad money.
Ibanez has always been a great guitar brand for all levels of guitar players with competitive prices... you can't really go wrong with any Ibanez guitar but damn.... I wish they went back to the 70's & 80's and made more shapes instead of being scared of Gibson and being BORING! So I play DEAN instead.... even though I grew up on Ibanez from the early 90's ;)
Any tonewood snob will hate this guitar. Me personally, I think it's awesome. And I'd definitely take one for free. But for what that geet costs, go get yourself about 6 or 7 mid-level guitars and you'll be WAAAAAY more happy.
Andy, I hate to say it, but we could’ve gotten so much more out of this if you had a partner along with you, OK dive into the specs of these guitars instead of talking about how they look or make you feel.
Ibanez needs to open its custom shop to mere mortals who aren't their signature artists. ...or start offering guitars and basses in more than one finish option, that isn't some shade of sh!t brown or dining room furniture burst.
re the wood/resin guitars... who they they think they're kidding... wood is expensive/resin is cheap... they take a crappy piece of useless wood, resin it up... and sell it to you as something new and wonderful! pffft!
@@jackvai2681 it takes more time and a different method shaping and sanding those bodies compared to all wood. It also takes a lot of imagination for the color and orientation.
OMG I mean really O M G those are brilliant bits of kit. Super cool and Super posy (but in a nice way) Missing info: price rage? I mean price range? On other hand change Cola to Marmalade? Seville Marmalade
These guitars just remind me of the wood clocks they used to sell at Stuckey's on the US interstate highways. In a word - tacky. Sorry, Ibanez. They're not for me.
Andy is super professional, love to see you interact with different people and all of them are absolutely positive with you
The first one is absolutely stunning. The second isn’t ugly either. 🧡
I used to hunt Gibsons and prs guitars but since I've owned my first IBANEZ I fell in love. One of the best priced brand on the market. Quality is amazing.
I’m still stuck on (US) PRS
yes, once you play a good wizard neck, its clear as day
Dear Mr Ibanez, bring back the destroyer!
AND V-Blade!
And xiphos in other colors as well.
They can’t Gibson will sue them 😢
And the VBT!!!
And the Iceman!!!
Ibanez is the only brand I've played since 98' ..never had an issue with the quality...
I was approached with a [low level] endorsement contract in the late 00's or the early 10's and that was the main reason I wasn't interested : ending having to use a single brand while not getting paid for it, and even havig to pay, although with a big discount, for the custom shop...
Actually, they can't even reach the specs of what I use due to patents like the needle-bearings trem bar or the 90/10 neck (Vigier), the floating table (Leduc), 100+ years old woods (Leduc, Xavier Petit), etc etc...
Actually, I only own a single Ibanez that is a cheap Talman acoustic, well, as a pure acoustic, it sucks but when you use the piezos in a PA, that's OK, so it's really cool to take her to play in bars where I don't want to take risks for my 1975 Aria "lawsuit" J-200 copy.
Thus, I know similar stuff to the Japan-CS since I own a Roland G-707 that was built by the Fujigen Gakki's Custom Shop.
I tend to prefer old Matsumoku stuff with neckthru to Fujigen's stuff...
they make the best instruments... few would admit
@@frankthetank-4857If it was the case, I would usea JEM Custom Shop Artist instead of the Vigier Excalibur. I also rejected a Fender endorsement, BTW.
The best solid body guitar I had in hands over 40 years is the Vigier Passion III-9/10... You're unlikely to ever touch one of these : only 46 were built, I own two of these.
My favourite Ibanez is the Artfield AFD-45, thus, they should have made it as a neckthru... could have been better...
FIY, Ibanez (Hoshino Gakki) stopped building guitars in 1966... ALL under this brand were ghostbuilt since. For the MiJ ones, they're mainly OEM built by Fujigen Gakki, thus, most of neckthru high end, at least until 1987, seems clearly out of Matsumoku's...
If you want real serious guitars, they're near all from small companies making only high end destined to professional musicians, other great stuff comes from independent artisans. Master luthier Chris Leduc, who built 6 of my instruments, got an incredible offer to work at Fender's custom shop and turned it down... I was jealous when he used 250yo woods for Ritchie Blackmore's guitar : the oldest wood I have on my Leducs is only a 1895 Brazilian rosewood... I also have 50's Honduran mahogany and 1920's padauk used on my Leducs...
My 2 main mahogany guitars were built by late Xavier Petit who used a ca.1905 Honduan mahogany... I managed to get Leduc's 1895 rosewood reaching the fretboard This one loks a bit like a PRS but weights as much as a LesPaul, the other one looks like a Charvel San Dimas and fits the job of a 1963 SG. By the way, in a blind test vs. a 1960 "burst" Les Paul, the X.Petit "PRS" won... The owner of the 1960 LP thought it was his guitar as the XP one sounded better.
I'm now considering to buy some 8000, 10,000 and even 60,000 years old woods for the next ones...
Insane beauty and flair.🔥 Ibanez J-Custom has been my favorite 24 fret brand - it set's the benchmark for the rest. (the rolled ball end frets looks fantastic!)🤘
Andy interesting display, I recently purchased a J-Line RG6HSH, it’s kinda a non trem RG550, absolutely my bar gigging guitar. Plays so well, I got to get better at playing it, cheers.
I just got myself an RG550 Genesis....it's great, I really like it. But...I would love to own one of those "Resin" guitars, they are beautiful! 😮
WOW. So beautiful!
Absolutely stunning
Totally not corny is what all of us want in our heart and in our hand
I know what you have in your hand … whacka whacka
@juanvaldez5422 I have several Ibanez guitars all of them with a different voice and just wonderful
@juanvaldez5422 I have several Ibanez guitars all with a different voice and all absolutely wonderful instruments
With the clear plate you can see when the Sauder brakes!!! Lol ! LOVE you all and have a blessed day!!!
How totally fun! I’ ll take the Koa, please! It will go with my first guitar I received for Christmas as a kid, a baby blue S style Ibanez which I still have…oh that was 60 years ago, by the way.
nice little manuel gardner fernandez cameo there
I WANT ONE!! I HAVE A PRESTIGE AND PREMIUM RGT. I am a strat player but I like Ibanez for lead and shredding.
Off the charts good ! as well as the cost.
Thanks for the ultimate clarification on the ubiquity of the vine inlay: Blues Lawyer'ism.
It's funny when we have Paul Reed Smith (the person) on the other spectrum that maintain the tone wood ideology and we have companies like Ibanez and ESP which sorta challenge that believe and makes guitar with some unconventional material
Please bring back the SZ520QM - 25.1 inch scale, HH, 3-on-the-side headstock, big comet on the 12th fret (no dots!!!) and chrome pickup rings. That was one of the most unique instruments you ever built:
It looked gorgeous, played exceptionally well,and got more tones that you can wish for with the middle split+independent volume configuration.
I'm a lefty and selling that guitar was the biggest regret of my life - I just can't find another one (I think the one I sold ended up on Reverb at some point).
If I have to have only one guitar for the rest of my life, that will be it.
The Low Profile Edge bridge looks nice, and I guess I am one of those people who thinks the little bolts get in my way normally.
@@MrGarry2u the Lo-Pro Edge is my favorite trem of all time. Feels great on the hand, it's super stable, stays in tune forever, flutters like butter for days and looks absolutely beautiful. I love them so much that I even have a bunch of extras for future projects. The locking studs also make the Edge series extremely great.
Totally true they do great musical builds at every price point and that's not true with most manufacturers not to the degree that they follow through with amen
wow guitar #2 looks like a photo taken from the bottom of the grand canyon looking up. amazing.
I love the RG 2024 :)
I like the second one. But all are really beautiful guitars😊
All them Ibanezezezez 😍 and two lovely humans and drinking coffee from my custom Ibanezezezez mug 🤣
Lovely to have you here!!! Enjoy that coffeezezezez and make sure you get a refill
Good Stuff !
Wow beautiful e guitars
Getting two things in one is always great.
Music and a piece of art beautifully combined in one object.
That was fun.
Ibanez loyalist here!
I have an Jem 7 v white, i`m very interested in the first one, but what would you, or they recomment?
Great guitar…❤️❤️❤️❤️
i love ibanez rg guitars!!!!!!
I own guitars by lots of manufacturers and love them all for difg reasons. I can say hands dowm when i pick up my Japanese made jem the fretwork and feel of it is simply amazing. I dont really even prefer thin necks..most times i seek out a little bit thicker, but damn if that thing isnt amazing under the fingers. Ibanez is a great builder
“ a seven year old kid who spends €200 of his hard earned money..” ??? Gotta love a guy who knows his target audience!!
I’m pretty sure Dan meant 17
German child labor rates are low.
Do kids not do chores around the house anymore in exchange for their allowance?
That would explain a few things.
He meant - kid from African diamond mine.
Good catch lol
Dan's love and energy is infectious! I have to agree with 100% of what he says here. Ibanez is my all-time favourite guitar maker, too. These new J Customs are not something that people were clamouring for, but they are definitely worthy of being revered!
I couldn’t agree more on all points
With new body styles, even when utilizing existing shape, but changing the materials, would have been nice to see a different inlay design. The vine thing was cool when I first saw it, but with these wood and acrylic bodies, I would have loved to see a new inlay design to compliment it.
I wish the Jem guitar necks weren’t so wide. They’re really made for Steve and most people prefer a different neck profile. Looks great and sounds great but I just can’t imagine myself using this guitar . Maybe I should try one again.
@dananthony6258 i don't know. I have smaller hands and was drawn to the Jem Jr. after noodling on it.
Love mine. Want another
I don't even play Ibanez but holy Christmas balls do i want them all!
Love the Guitars. Will they be Europe Exclusive or will be available in other regions?
Also very impressing that the guitar contains "a little bit of a hole", since holes are getting harder and harder to find.
Do they come with a full length mirror?
I don’t buy guitars that don’t!
I have a prestige 7 2027xvv I would like it stripped and upgraded to new modern specs. Refitted with pia pickups and new everything. Is that even possible?
Not an Ibanez guy , but I love that guitar
These are beutiful guitars. I loved the look immediatly by the time I saw them in Mannheim. Nicely presented, Andy.
Please start making SSH AZ with 24 frets...
Hey Ibanez how about a LP Custom spec’d , Iceman Premium ?
3:40 a wild Bernth in the background
A shout out to the background noise reduction in this video. It's incredible.
Amazing brother I mean it.
You mentioned Meinl in Germany but they don't sell Ibanez at all 🤔
You can't go wrong with an Ibanez. I recently bought a Schecter which costs half more brand new and my Ibanez 270 DX still feels like a superior instrument.
I always feel the same with my Vigiers compared to all Fenders and Ibanez I've touched over 40 years: The Vigiers still feel and sound like superior instruments
I got the affordable GSA60-Gio Walnut definitly a Ibanez already there. A well made and good looking sleak guitar and there after them will be as more and better but resin.. that is a step in the heading of the Toys department.
I have an RG burled wood Edition Ibanez guitar and the thing looks like the last seen on Trading Places and I named her Ophelia cuz it looked like that water and that Island stuff so it happens with name
Holy cow these guitars are insanely gorgeous 🤯
I change the pick ups to black winter on my j-custom.
Andy...
1) Did you pick up a guitar at this show?
2) How many guitars do you have?
3) How many guitars does your wife THINK you have?
Yes.
Don’t know
More than iactually have. She’s very supportive
@@TheGuitarGeek - Great answers and a bonus. Raise a glass and prost (or whatever the local dialect may say) to your lady.
I always let the ads roll for your videos to get you that full USA ad money.
How much
Beautiful guitars!!!
WOW
MERAVIGLIAAAAA
Ibanez has always been a great guitar brand for all levels of guitar players with competitive prices... you can't really go wrong with any Ibanez guitar but damn.... I wish they went back to the 70's & 80's and made more shapes instead of being scared of Gibson and being BORING! So I play DEAN instead.... even though I grew up on Ibanez from the early 90's ;)
those are so beautiful. Put an EVH franky neck on it and sell me one.
The Vote for Pedro dude is funny!!
7:23 I don't think he realised that was Manuel Gardner Fernandes lol
of course I did. I was just being polite and not forcing him to be in a video. He was on the way to the room for our interview.
Why would they greet each other if they didn't know each other? There was clearly mutual recognition.
The low pro guitar is more proof that Ibanez Japan is still one of the best guitar companies, ever.
@@michaelb.42112 the lo-pro edge tremolo is the best way to fly on a Floyd style bridge.
Any tonewood snob will hate this guitar. Me personally, I think it's awesome. And I'd definitely take one for free. But for what that geet costs, go get yourself about 6 or 7 mid-level guitars and you'll be WAAAAAY more happy.
Those guitars are stunning
Even if they are right handed 🤪
two sick guys but in the good way
Yes Cola or Coffee/Cafe!! Both are correct!!
Also the sound of the ppl talking sounds as if it was fast forwarded .22 ms
Noice guitars 🎸 👌 good job Andy 👏 👍
I find things made out of resin tend to crack and break easily
Andy, I hate to say it, but we could’ve gotten so much more out of this if you had a partner along with you, OK dive into the specs of these guitars instead of talking about how they look or make you feel.
Error, the first one has an edge tremolo and not a lo pro edge. 😉
all those bubbles visible in the first guitar
Yours...for a kidney.
Wow. They actually made a guitar out of a river desk.
At 3:39 is that guy in background on the right www.youtube.com/@Bernthguitar?
th-cam.com/video/X6sYM3VC_mg/w-d-xo.htmlsi=uhtgoL9FJv7JerhI&t=219
yes, that is Bernth!
number 3 is totally gorgeous
It certainly looks heavy. I prefer the second one.
Made by Sugi, most likely🔥
Ibanez needs to open its custom shop to mere mortals who aren't their signature artists.
...or start offering guitars and basses in more than one finish option, that isn't some shade of sh!t brown or dining room furniture burst.
re the wood/resin guitars...
who they they think they're kidding...
wood is expensive/resin is cheap...
they take a crappy piece of useless wood,
resin it up...
and sell it to you as something new and wonderful!
pffft!
@@jackvai2681 it takes more time and a different method shaping and sanding those bodies compared to all wood. It also takes a lot of imagination for the color and orientation.
Wow that first one,a guitar only its maker would love. That front,terrible,laughably terrible ;-) back of neck is sick though
I can't believe you ACTUALLY asked if that first guitar was dyed. Are you for real
So using up wood that's too small
OMG I mean really O M G those are brilliant bits of kit.
Super cool and Super posy (but in a nice way)
Missing info: price rage? I mean price range?
On other hand change Cola to Marmalade? Seville Marmalade
there's no resin to not love those guitars
Guitarists... the only musicians selecting their instruments on the colour of the paint and not knowing how to read sheath music
FIRST ANDY
Find a Bad Ibanez... you'll love it.
Please don't make a bass...
Please don't make a bass...
Please don't make a bass...
Music Store Professional No.4 €7398 including vat
1, 3 and 4 are just beautiful. The 2nd imo just isn't it, the balance of wood/epoxy is off and thw koa itself is mid. Looks like a muddy pond or smth
Ugh, needs flashing LEDs like a gaming PC.
I will never part with my lefty RG; no way.
Impressive....most impresive. Another guitar to fuel the tone wood debate lol.
Get this guy a dresscode crashcourse.
Blues lawyers catching strays.
These guitars just remind me of the wood clocks they used to sell at Stuckey's on the US interstate highways. In a word - tacky. Sorry, Ibanez. They're not for me.