Ibanez RGR652AHB Prestige, Weathered Black - Ex Demo

Full Description

Ash Body

The RGR652AHB’s body is crafted from incredibly lightweight ash wood, offering excellent comfort with the ability to play all night long without shoulder strain. The ash tonewood provides a sweet, airy twang, with plenty of resonance for singing chords and powerful punching notes. Its firm lows, pleasing highs, and slightly scooped midrange suits a range of playing styles, but favours the harsh strikes of metal players.

The Super Wizard HP Maple/Walnut Neck

It’s neck is crafted from maple and walnut, creating an incredibly bright, smooth tone with and excellent sustain and stability. Plying multiple woods together helps strengthen the neck more than single wood necks, offering more stability and prevent warping and bending from extensive performances. Although maple and walnut are a naturally smooth wood, the RGR652AHB feature’s Ibanez’s super wizard high-performance profile which is designed for shredders. This design is optimised for lead guitarists, as its thin nature helps players perform swift and nimble runs with ease.

Bound Rosewood Fingerboard

The 2018 RG Series Ibanez is equipped with a bound rosewood fingerboard, which has been designed with a smooth, natural finish for a comfortable playing experience. The select rosewood tonewood provides the guitar with a very responsive bright, snappy attack, along with a smooth sustain and an open midrange. It’s bound edges allow for a smooth play and fluid hand flexibility across the whole neck.

DiMarzio Fusion Edge Pickups

Players can achieve a classic metal tone with the two DiMarzio Fusion Edge pickups, which were designed in a collaboration between Ibanez and DiMarzio. Located on the neck and bridge positions, these pickups produce a variety of overdriven textures, creating powerfully distinctive tones perfect for metal styles. Use the volume, tone, and 5-way pickup selector to dial in the perfect sound for any situation.

Edge Tremolo

The Edge double locking tremolo system developed and manufactured by Gotoh, a highly regarded and respected company in the world of guitar parts. Originally introduced in 1986, discontinued in 2003, and re-introduced in 2010, the Edge is acclaimed by many guitarists as the finest tremolo system available on the market. It's based on the original Floyd Rose tremolo design, but with a variety of improvements. These include replaceable knife edges, a less bulky saddle, increased mass to improve sustain, locking studs, a spring retainer on the trem block, and a pop-in tremolo arm.

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: Ash
• Bridge: Edge Tremolo
• Construction: Bolt-On
• Finish: Weathered Black

Neck & Fingerboard

• Neck: 5-Piece Maple/Walnut
• Profile: Super Wizard HP
• Scale Length: 25.5’’
• Fingerboard: Bound Rosewood
• Radius: 430mm
• Frets: 24 Jumbo w/Prestige Fret Edge Treatment
• Inlays: White Dots
• Nut: Locking
• Nut Width: 43mm

Electronics & Hardware

• Bridge Pickup: DiMarzio Fusion Edge Humbucker (Passive/Ceramic)
• Neck Pickup: DiMarzio Fusion Edge Humbucker (Passive/Ceramic)
• Controls: Volume, Tone, 5-Way Pickup Selector
• Tuners: Gotoh
• Hardware: Black
• String Gauges: .009, .011, .016, .024, .032, .042
• Case Included: Hardshell