Yes you're right, my bad, common sense has left me for today. Edited.You mean a particularly wet year in Japan and very dry here.
Even Winter built guitars are coming in with some sprout.
Yes you're right, my bad, common sense has left me for today. Edited.You mean a particularly wet year in Japan and very dry here.
Even Winter built guitars are coming in with some sprout.
Terrible sales of the guitars. Everyone wanted a 7 string Iceman apparently and when Ibanez made it, nobody bought it as an example. They're not going to tool up for guitars that aren't going to make them money.
I didn't get to order that one fast enough unfortunately and got pulled from the lineup after 1 year i think.
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I was fucking furious at those 507's being US only, would have got two in a heartbeat.
One with shipping from an available region would have probably been better than the price on one downunda.
Getting a hold of one was the issue. Even guys in the US struggled getting a hold of them, the production numbers were really low. I've found a couple in Japan before however that was post-CITES (and getting stuff out of Japan was difficult before CITES, it's even harder now).
I don't know how long I've been waiting for an 8-string multiscale Prestige offering from Ibanez, really want to upgrade from the Agile haha.
Oh the pain of being addicted to the Wizard neck...
Hahaha, yeah they should move the neutral point to around 7th or 8th fret for sure. Only if the Strandberg wasn't so expensive...Yikes wizard 8 string 12th paralle. I think you can replicate this by just taking your fretting hand and smashing the entire thing into the nearest wall.
I have to hijack my own thread at this point.
So, yesterday I went to the shop because some of the new 2019 models arrived and I was curious to see the 5000 models in person. All the maple board Ibbies (witht he exception of the 550 reissue) had massive fret sprout to the point where careless sliding could have cut my fingers open. I have never seen this happen from any other manufacturer to this extent. Is maple so much more volatile when it comes to humidity compared to other wood species? Did they buy low quality wood? What's going on here? I really don't feel like adding 10% of the price on top just to have my luthier file them down after buying.
The wood isn't as dry nor as good/old as it used to be, each year I've seeing the woods get greener and greener, I had a 2013 RG752 next to a 2018 RG752 the other day and the difference is staggering. Its honestly to the point now where I don't think I'll buy a new Ibanez again as the maple quality even on the prestiges now is pretty crap.
It's not just Ibanez either, noticed similar trend on most brands sub $1500-$2000.
So idk if it was the fan or what, but I played that 8 string rosewood FB ibanez with the fanned fretboard and let me tell you, it was kind of awful and I don’t mean quality.
Basically felt like the fan was “extreme”. This was my first time touching a fan in person so I don’t have much experience. But the low notes were super far apart as where the high strings.
I always imagined fans would feel kind of slight. I did only play it for a couple of minutes but I was like “I don’t think I could play scales on this OR low string power chords...”.
Maybe it’s my smaller hands? Idk. Just wasn’t impressed and made me second guess ordering a 7 string fan from GOC last month.
Seriously it wasn’t build quality or anything like that, just not sure about the fan.
I purchased an Ormsby AND a GOC so imagine my concern lol
Especially on the Ormsby since they have one of the widest fans
I did only play it for a couple of minutes
The ormsbys are pretty comfy. I was skeptical when I bought the first one but it felt really go, even for stupid stretched out extended chords.I purchased an Ormsby AND a GOC so imagine my concern lol
Especially on the Ormsby since they have one of the widest fans
So idk if it was the fan or what, but I played that 8 string rosewood FB ibanez with the fanned fretboard and let me tell you, it was kind of awful and I don’t mean quality.
Basically felt like the fan was “extreme”. This was my first time touching a fan in person so I don’t have much experience. But the low notes were super far apart as where the high strings.
I always imagined fans would feel kind of slight. I did only play it for a couple of minutes but I was like “I don’t think I could play scales on this OR low string power chords...”.
Maybe it’s my smaller hands? Idk. Just wasn’t impressed and made me second guess ordering a 7 string fan from GOC last month.
Seriously it wasn’t build quality or anything like that, just not sure about the fan.
Okay I'm glad I'm not alone. My Kiesel Vader Multiscale 7 feels awesome, but when I tried an Ibanez 7 string multiscale, it was almost unplayable to me. It just felt extremely weird and the spacing felt huge.As someone who owns one of these fanned Ibanii, no- it's not just your hands.
The other guys are right that the newer ones aren't as bad, and mine is a 6 so the issues were probably much more noticable on the 8, but the fan design that Ibanez uses is just not optimal, and toward either extreme end of the board, you can feel it. The spacing is just...bad.
That said though, it does grow on you, and since mine is a 6 and I'm just playing bruutz on it anyway, I love it. Don't think I'd recommend an 8 string variant, though.