Ibanez AS200 Artstar Prestige, Antique Yellow Sunburst

Full Description

Beautiful Flamed Maple Hollow Body

This Prestigious Ibanez Artstar features a hollow body design crafted from stunning flamed maple, creating a beautifully unique aesthetic with a classic 50s style voice. The maple tonewood provides a clear, defined upper midsection and a high-end sparkle, delivering a balanced low-end response ideal for chiming chords and super bright lead patterns. For added acoustic projection, a duo of classic 'F' sound holes are also featured on the maple soundboard, providing a classic look that many guitarists associate with the 1950s era.

Mahogany Neck & Bound Ebony Fingerboard

The mahogany neck is designed with a classic art star profile to offer a smooth, fast play, while its prestige fret edge treatment provides a tight response. The mahogany tonewood produces a warm, mellow tone, with complex highs and thick, creamy lows. The neck is mounted with a bound ebony fingerboard, finished with acrylic and abalone block inlays to create an elegant apathetic. Ebony is a great choice for fingerboards, as its natural smoothness reduces finger fatigue, ideal for fast playing styles, and provides the perfect platform for percussive styles such as tapping or hammer-ons. It’s bound edges allow for a smooth play and fluid hand flexibility across the whole neck.

Super 58 Pickups

The Ibanez AS200 delivers beautiful tones perfect for jazz fans, with its choice of incredible Super 58 pickups which have been used by artists like George Benson, Pat Metheny, and John Scofield. This vintage choice of pickup delivers warm, balanced articulation, an excellent response, and a perfect tone for jazz guitarists. These pickups are capable of delivering a 'jazz clean' tone, as well as 'blues-dirty' for a versatile performance.

Neck Pickup Tri-Sound Switch

Along with its independent volume and tone controls, the neck humbucker also features an innovative tri-sound switch to offer further tonal options. The switch allow players to set the humbucker between the traditional series configuration, a parallel setting to deliver a brighter, single-coil-like sound with a lower output and hum cancellation, or a coil-tapped option to produce classic single-coil soundscapes.

Gotoh Hardware

The AS200 Artstar Guitar is equipped with high-quality Gotoh hardware with a gold finish, offering a professional performance and a prestigious appearance. The bridge and tailpiece work together to improve strong stability and sustain, while offering a quick and easy string change. The tuners are designed to provide the ultimate tuning stability, ensuring your guitar remains in-tune no matter the intensity of the performance.

Ibanez Prestige Series

The Ibanez Prestige series combines precision, performance, and playability to create a range of powerfully versatile electric guitars. Mixing high-tech manufacturing with old-world Japanese craftsmanship, the Prestige series is innovative in design and construction. The range is known for high performing fast necks, iconic pickup pairing and advanced electronics and hardware.

About Ibanez Guitars

Over the past 30 years, Ibanez Guitars have always been at the forefront of developing the right tools for electric guitar players pushing the boundaries of music. For decades, Ibanez designers and luthiers have been the embodiment of this ideology, pushing their skills to the edge of imagination, consistently creating some of the most versatile and unique instruments ever. Although Ibanez guitars have been made since 1908, it wasn't until the late 1980s that they began to form an identity for themselves when artists such as Steve Vai and Frank Zappa began using their instruments. Now with a huge artist clientele across the globe, Ibanez are a leading manufacturer of electric guitars and basses and a first choice for many dedicated musicians.

Specifications

Body & Bridge

• Body: Flamed Maple
• Bridge: Gotoh 510BN
• Tailpiece: Gotoh GE101A
• Construction: Set-Neck
• Finish: Vintage Yellow Sunburst

Neck & Fingerboard

• Neck: Mahogany
• Profile: Artstar AS
• Scale Length: 24.7’’
• Fingerboard: Bound Ebony
• Radius: 305mm
• Frets: 22 Medium w/Prestige Fret Edge Treatment
• Inlays: Acrylic & Abalone Blocks
• Nut: Bone
• Nut Width: 43mm

Electronics & Hardware

• Bridge Pickup: Super 58 (Passive/Alnico)
• Neck Pickup: Super 58 (Passive/Alnico)
• Controls: 2 x Volume, 2 x Tone, 3-Way Pickup Selector, Tri-Sound Switch (Neck Pickup)
• Tuners: Gotoh
• Pickguard: Tortoiseshell
• Control Knobs: Sure Grip III
• Hardware: Gold
• Case Included: Hardshell