Keira WitherKay wrote:
wow ok thats one beautiful guitar.... love the colours...... anyway who gives a f@#k whats on the headstock if it 'floats your boat"
Great thing is, like all Ibanez "Artcore" guitars, it's a cheapy. Very rare though. I think they put out a huge range and then whittled it down to the most popular ones, so a lot of these are out of production now. Their f-hole guitars don't sound particularly lively acoustically, unfortunately (in my experience anyway). But this one's also available (although no longer in production) as a pure acoustic, so maybe they made an effort to get more movement in the top.
In total contrast to the original post, Ibanez artcores were an amazing attempt by a major guitar making company to come up with a huge range of special interest guitars for very little cash. I don't think anybody except custom luthiers were even making no-cutaway electrics for years before them. And of course, anyone wanting a jazz or rockabilly archtop can now get started straight away with a low-cost guitar like their AF75. Very cool.
