tian
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The Genesisss (Genesi?) live! That Vampire Kiss was a exclusive color somewhere for a bit so glad to see it back.
Ibanez 2022 discussion.
RG XL reissue
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Thomann has a nice JCRG in stock right now:
www.thomann.de
Ibanez JCRG2104 J-Custom
Electric Guitar Body: Swamp ash, Top: Flamed chestnut, Bolt-on 3-piece neck: Wenge/rare maple, Fretboard: Ebony (Diospyros Crassiflora), Neck profile: RG j.custom Wizard (thickness 1st fret 18 mm / thickness 12th fret 20 mm), Mother of Pearl Dots...
www.thomann.de
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Thomann has a nice JCRG in stock right now:
Ibanez JCRG2104 J-Custom
Electric Guitar Body: Swamp ash, Top: Flamed chestnut, Bolt-on 3-piece neck: Wenge/rare maple, Fretboard: Ebony (Diospyros Crassiflora), Neck profile: RG j.custom Wizard (thickness 1st fret 18 mm / thickness 12th fret 20 mm), Mother of Pearl Dots...
Oh shit that's perfect!
yes, this would be good. Multiscale 7s with fixed bridge and some crazy finishes would definitely get me interested, but I think they need to up their game on specs from what I've seen. Sure, Japanese stuff tends to be quite expensive but at the end of the day they've been lagging behind a lot of other brands in the last couple of years (imo, anyway, in a price/quality ratio). A lot of their reasonably expensive (again, just going by my opinion/budget) don't even have locking tuners when they're kinda ubiquitous in some guitar brands that are significantly less pricey. I guess it's like Nike shoes in a way at this point, but I'd love them to get back to their glory days and put out stuff that's a competitive price rather than bizarre signature models and reissues that don't update the guitars in any way from their 90's counterparts. I <3 Ibanez but I wish they'd love us all back ;p
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what major brand has quality MIJ stuff for under 1k? barely more than a regular mexican strat, and most mid tier indo garbage is >1k
they have added all the hip gimmicks, headless, ss frets, kitchen counter finish, fishmans, bkps etc etc
but adding locking tuners to locking trems is just wasteful
Tbh I hate tremolo systems, so I wouldn't buy a guitar featuring one, so I guess I should have mentioned I'm always referring to fixed bridge models. I've just never gotten on well with them.
The MIJ thing, meh, I guess I'm talking about "in an ideal world". It just seems they're pricing themselves out of the new buyer market, as there are a LOT of decent guitars available now at a fraction of the cost. They don't say "Ibanez" on them, sure, but I'm not sure younger folks (unless tim henson obsessed) really care that much. Plus (imo) his sig guitar is super ugly.
tian
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What exactly do you consider the "buyer's market" and what guitars are you hoping to see?
Availability aside, you can pickup an Ibanez Genesis for $1k and it's a rock solid workhorse which has always been the point of the RG. For a little less there's the High Performance range which tackles one of the long-standing complaints in Ibanezs buy coming with name brand pickups. If you want bling, pickup a Premium, which personally I find goofy because for less you can grab a MIJ Genesis or for slightly more get a barebones Prestige, but people want their aesthetics. It wasn't that long ago that people walked through the snow, both ways, to their local Guitar Center to buy RG350s they had no problem with.
The current spec war is good for the buyers but, imo, there's comes a point where companies are making guitars for people who prioritize what they see on a spec sheet over what actually matters in using the guitar.
And when you compare the Prestige line across their competitors, it's kind of impressive. They feel expensive because a lot of us remember how much Prestiges cost about 10 years ago ( and especially on the used market, RIP) but I think it's easy to forget how expensive ~everything~ is these days. You can't even get an ESP with that name on the headstock for the price of a $2k Prestige. MIA Jackson's are, uh, a lot and they still aren't as eye-watering as the world of Gibsons, PRSs, etc.
How crazy is it that an SL1 is more expensive than a CU24? I legitimately never thought that would happen.
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Really cool but when converting to real money was a big nope lol! £5999? YeeeshThomann has a nice JCRG in stock right now:
Ibanez JCRG2104 J-Custom
Electric Guitar Body: Swamp ash, Top: Flamed chestnut, Bolt-on 3-piece neck: Wenge/rare maple, Fretboard: Ebony (Diospyros Crassiflora), Neck profile: RG j.custom Wizard (thickness 1st fret 18 mm / thickness 12th fret 20 mm), Mother of Pearl Dots...
tian
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I double checked the prices after my post was like "got. damn.."
Feels like MIA Jackson's are becoming/are the Gibson R8s and R9s of the Gen X generation.
You can't even get an ESP for under $5k these days. Heck, an Eclipse is like $1k more than an actual LPC.
JimF
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lol
lol, your band are from sainty's. that's where I'm from, well, not fully, but where I lived from about 3 to 18 or so ;p
JimF
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Yes mate! Small world 
I'm not Scottish myself but was in Dundee for about 6 years for uni and made some lifelong friends. Having the band is a good way to make sure we all keep in touch and see each other regularly.
I'm not Scottish myself but was in Dundee for about 6 years for uni and made some lifelong friends. Having the band is a good way to make sure we all keep in touch and see each other regularly.
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Thomann has a price of 999€ for Laser Blue and Vampire Kiss. Seems like it's same as Fluorescent Orange and Emerald Green finishes.
Christ ;p Although, having said that, I heard THE DEE is different now. Ever since they put in THE DUNDEE STOCK EXCHANGE (lol) things changed a lot. Last time I went it didn't seem anywhere near as wild. Fun fact, for some time, Dundee had the most stagnant gene pool in the Western world
the look interesting. does anyone know if there will be fixed bridge models? I'm too retarded these days to buy anything with a tremolo
