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Key Features
- Highly durable and stable roasted maple neck
- Versatile range of tones from custom pickups
- Exercise creative control with the dyna-MIX5 switching system
- Bright, responsive sound thanks to maple top
Ibanez TQMS1-CTB Tom Quayle, Celeste Blue Overview
The Ibanez TQMS1-CTB Tom Quayle is a well-rounded, tonally vibrant and expertly engineered offering from Ibanez. Constructed using high quality tonewoods, the alder body with a maple top provides a bright tone and clear response with excellent resonance. What's more, the roasted maple neck and rosewood fretboard provide an extremely comfortable playability that will have you gliding across the board with ease. With the Magic Touch-mini pickup at the neck and an Alnico II Pro Custom on the bridge, the tonal versatility of this guitar is spellbinding.
Extensive yet intuitive controls leave you more than enough creative freedom to find your own unique voice. Inspired by Tom Quayle and his unique and diverse style that ranges from rock to jazz and everything in the middle, you'll be able to access a range of different sonic options with this guitar, ensuring a performance that is right for you. Not only does the TQMS1-CTB sound great, it comes complete with an understated, classy sky blue finish that is sure to fit in beautifully wherever you take it.
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View Full DescriptionA bolt from the electric blue
The Ibanez TQMS1-CTB Tom Quayle is a highly functional and purpose-built guitar that will suit the needs of any developing or established player – no matter their style. As well as coming equipped with fantastic hardware and industry standard tonewoods that contribute to a diverse and glorious sound, it is also comfortable to play and looks great. The Sky Blue finish matches the tortoise shell pick guard and roasted maple neck beautifully, and will both melt in and stand out on stage at the same time, for the ultimate rounded guitar experience.
Built by the best
Ibanez TQMS1-CTB Tom Quayle is a premium product, and that’s why it has been built using industry standard tonewoods, for a unique playability and sound. Comfort and a great tone are always key and with a maple neck and body top – that’s exactly what you get. Bright and responsive in tone, the roasted maple will also feel great within your hands and the rosewood fingerboard is comfortably manoeuvrable and will help you push your playing further than ever before. On top of this, the lightweight alder back and side not only contribute a resonance to the sound, but also make this guitar extremely manageable from a physical point of view.
Complete with magnum lock machine heads, which are renowned for their wonderful tuning stability, you won’t have to worry about re-tuning in between every song. These tuning pegs work in unison with the non-recessed bridge cavity that provides a fantastically dynamic tremolo action whilst retain its tuning stability – no matter how intense the whammy action. Moreover, the direct contact between the bridge plate and the guitar ensures an increased resonance, so you can dive down even more creative avenue to find your own unique style.
A premium, tailorable sound
Ibanez TQMS1-CTB Tom Quayle comes with a Magic Touch-mini pickup on the neck, bringing a tonal clarity which is a definitive feature of this guitar. Highly articulate and responsive, both pickups are designed with a precisely configured output level, so that they align well with one and other at all times. The bridge pickup is an Alnico II Pro Custom, which brings that classic twangy sharpness to the mix while retaining the clarity of the maple and donating its own bite for those higher output lead tones.
All of these great tones can be tailored using the switching system, which features a 3-way pickup selector and an alter switch – offering up to 6 different pickup combinations. These versatile sonic configurations can then be tailored to fit your exact specifications using the separate volume and tone knobs, so that you can discover your own voice time and time again. If you’re looking for a versatile guitar that can be tailored to fit your ideal sound, then look no further. Designed from the blueprint of a true pro in Tom Quayle, the Ibanez TQMS1-CTB is ready to be made into something you can call your own.
Specifications
Body
- Top Material: Maple
- Body Material: Alder
Neck & Fingerboard
- Neck Type: AZ Oval C / S-TECH Roasted Maple
- Fingerboard Material: Rosewood
- Inlays: Mother of Pearl
- Frets: 22 Jumbo Stainless Steel
- String Spacing: 10.5mm
Hardware & Electronics
- Bridge: Gotoh T1802 Tremolo Bridge
- Neck Pickup: Seymour Duncan Magic Touch-Mini (H) (Passive/Alnico)
- Neck Pickup: Seymour Duncan Alnico II pro custom (S) (Passive/Alnico)
- Nut: Bone Nut
- Hardware Colour: Chrome
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