Ibanez RG8. New Budget 8-string.

[vampiregenocide]

I guess I'm in that small group that prefers non-matching headstocks generally. I will most likely get this at some point.

 

[kevdes93]

dayum shame. i guess ill buy the black one and sand her down then

 

[Spaceman_Spiff]

^ or just paint the headstock white?

 

[HeHasTheJazzHands]

^ or just paint the headstock white?

This. Nothing $4 of Krylon and a water-slide decal can't fix.

But the white one actually looks pretty cool... Stuck between that one and an Agile Intrepid 828.

 

[Konfyouzd]

Meh. Headstock is black.

Still getting it in white though.

Weren't a lot of the pics of the RG2228A also sporting a black headstock? I thought we saw someone on here with one that had a white headstock, though. I feel like I've seen both. What's up with that?

 

[Ayo7e]

^ Actually that happened with the rga8.

 

[Konfyouzd]

Oooh! You're totally right. My bad. Too many Ibby 8s!

 

[JamesM]

I'd still buy it, and I probably will.

 

[FireInside]

^ Actually that happened with the rga8.

That may have been because the first run of white RGA8's had black head stocks. It was supposed to be an "error" before they corrected it and started shipping them in all white.

 

[Fiction]

Wow that white looks sweet, even with the black headstock.

 

[Hybrid138]

white for me... guess I'll have a reason to try to do a refinish because of that headstock...

 

[7stringDemon]

I'm also taking the white/headstock refinish route. I just can't stand black guitars anymore!

Though with my DK2M, my RG7620 that will be refinished to white, my RGT3120 and DN500, I'll only have one black guitar .

 

[HeHasTheJazzHands]

Ibanez "Prestige" Headstock Decal [hsiba009] : Best-Decals.com, Your One-Stop Decal-Shop

Could always get one of these decals and remove the "Prestige" tag if anyones up for headstock modding.

 

[8track]

stopped into my local music shop yesterday for strings and found out they are getting one in white, gave em my number for when it comes in.

it will be mine!

 

[CM_X5]

Not really liking the basswood body...but at that price it might be my first 8.

 

[JamesM]

Basswood is great.

 

[CM_X5]

Basswood is great.

My experiences with basswood have not been good so I just have a bad taste in my mouth from that. Still willing to give this a try, just wary.

 

[Spaceman_Spiff]

EBMM JPXII is basswood. Misha's Jackson CS 7 is basswood. Basswood has always been good to me.

 

[Curt]

Huge difference between the basswood used in the high end guitar market and the stuff they use for these.

It's about 60/40 on the end of tonally "alive" to dull sounding cheaper Ibby's I have played. But the basswood used in the Jackson CS and EBMM shop is of a far higher grade.

 

[Spaceman_Spiff]

I very seriously doubt that it's a "huge difference". Maybe a noticeable one, but I doubt that its huge. Either way with the axe-fx and digital amps, as well as real ones, you can eq a guitar to sound pretty much however you want. I've always felt wood affected feel much more than tone.