![]() ![]() Ibanez Gio The Ibanez Gio are Ibanez' budget guitars, designed for high playability at low costs. Ibanez Premium The Premium guitars are similar to other models but are built in Ibanez's Indonesian premium factory to premium quality standards. They feature higher quality materials, high craftsmanship, and higher quality bridges compared to other models. Ibanez Prestige The Prestige guitars are Ibanez's top of the line models that are built in Japan. They feature aftermarket pickups (Seymour Duncan Jazz & Custom 5 in the 6 string model and DiMarzio PAF-7 pickups in the 7 string model,) 5 piece maple/wenge necks with Titanium reinforcement rods, a rosewood fingerboard with a tree of life fret board inlay, and Edge Zero tremolo systems. Built by some of the most skilled luthiers Ibanez has to offer, they 'represent every advance in design and technology Ibanez has developed over the last 20 years'. They are 'Envisioned to be the finest Japanese-made guitar in history'. ![]() Custom series are the most exclusive and high-end custom shop guitars Ibanez offers. ![]() The newer Ibanez models began incorporating more modern elements into their design such as radical body shapes, slimmer necks, 2-octave fingerboards, slim pointed headstocks, higher-output electronics, humbucker/single-coil/humbucker (H/S/H) pickup configurations, locking tremolo bridges and different finishes. In 1977, they upgraded and extended their Artist range and introduced a number of other top-quality original designs made to match or surpass famous American brands: the Performer and short-lived Concert ranges which competed with the Les Paul through-neck Musicians Studios in fixed- and through-neck construction the radically shaped Iceman and the Roadster which morphed into the Roadstar range, precursor to the popular superstrat era in the mid-1980s. Hoshino was producing their original Artist models from 1974, introducing a set-neck model in 1975. After the lawsuit, Hoshino Gakki abandoned the strategy of copying 'classic' electric guitar designs, having already introduced a plethora of original designs. ![]()
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