NGD: Ibanez APEX100TFB (lots of pics)

[Pikka Bird]

haha, alright.

Also, I found that thread I mentioned.

http://www.sevenstring.org/forum/sevenstring-guitars/171091-guitar-magazine-apex100-fail.html

Ha ha, that was exactly the one I was talking about on the first page. I love it!

It is a bit awkward, but I did find it useful on my K-7 while playing live but eventually swapped out the trem for a black Lo Pro.

Swapping a powder cosmo Lo-Pro for a black one to get rid of the awkward feel? How does that work?
Did you swap the rest of the hardware too or do you have it mismatched ATM?

 

[Syriel]

Ah. Apex100. I got to try it out when I was gonna buy my RGD. It was an awesome beast, and the single coil neck was just sexy. However, just couldn't justify its price new.

 

[Djentleguy]

Beautiful guitar man! HNGD!

 

[Webmaestro]

What perplexes me is the difference in fretboard radius between this model (430mm, which is what I like) and the Apex 2 (which is a super-tight 305mm, which I hate). I wonder why the difference?

Whatever the case, grats on getting this so cheap. One helluva find indeed!

 

[Augminished]

What perplexes me is the difference in fretboard radius between this model (430mm, which is what I like) and the Apex 2 (which is a super-tight 305mm, which I hate). I wonder why the difference?

Whatever the case, grats on getting this so cheap. One helluva find indeed!

Yeah I don't know why they changed. I never played the Apex 2 so I can't speak to that but this is by far the most comfortable fretboard I have ever played.

Thanks

 

[Decipher]

Today's sin is jealousy and I has it. Seriously beautiful guitar man, congrads.

 

[squid-boy]

You could probably palm mute, it would just take some new pathways in the brain to tell your hand not to slip too far onto the bridge itself.

 

[Augminished]

After playing with the u bar more it is definitely possible. I was to quick to say that you could not palm mute. It does take some getting used to though.

Thinking about putting a tremol-no on this one too.

 

[VBCheeseGrater]

Why don't more company's make 7's with a single coil in the neck???

I wish it was a little warmer though.

I think you answered your own question there! Another thing is the output dropoff from humbuckers to single coil. As much as i like having the single coil in the neck, the volume dropoff made it more of a pain whenever i had it - same with the coil taps.

but anyway, that is a killer guitar. I'm not even a floyd fan, but i'd live with it on that.

 

[Floppystrings]

I think it looks really nice.

Just slightly better than the K7.

I hope Ibanez comes out with new Japanese 7 strings soon. The new Indo models are ok but I don't like what I see, where did the Japanese 7's go?

 

[Augminished]

I think you answered your own question there! Another thing is the output dropoff from humbuckers to single coil. As much as i like having the single coil in the neck, the volume dropoff made it more of a pain whenever i had it - same with the coil taps.

but anyway, that is a killer guitar. I'm not even a floyd fan, but i'd live with it on that.

I guess I did

I wasn't either until I picked up this guitar and it just felt so damn good.

 

[Augminished]

I think it looks really nice.

Just slightly better than the K7.

I hope Ibanez comes out with new Japanese 7 strings soon. The new Indo models are ok but I don't like what I see, where did the Japanese 7's go?

The place I bought it from use to make a ton of money off of Ibanez's. Now everyone is buying Schecter's and ESP's. The owner said he sells about 5-7 schecter's a day. He has not sold one high end Ibanez this year (until this one ).

really sad but there is your answer.

 

[bob123]

This thing is gorgeous!!! Congrats!

 

[Xaios]

Awesome.

Something I simply have to ask: what's the routing like? Would it support a humbucker in the neck position and the addition of a tone knob?

 

[Floppystrings]

The place I bought it from use to make a ton of money off of Ibanez's. Now everyone is buying Schecter's and ESP's. The owner said he sells about 5-7 schecter's a day. He has not sold one high end Ibanez this year (until this one ).

really sad but there is your answer.

I will probably end up paying big for an ESP Eclipse baritone.

I guess ESP can take chances and offer things like that, and Ibanez is playing it safe...as usual.

 

[toiletstand]

a while back i saw a video of munky playing his with either a black or black-aluminum-brushed-whatever pickguard. looked really awesome!

congrats dude

 

[metale]

Could it be an Universe?

 

[Augminished]

Awesome.

Something I simply have to ask: what's the routing like? Would it support a humbucker in the neck position and the addition of a tone knob?

I will check and get back to you later today.

I will probably end up paying big for an ESP Eclipse baritone.

I guess ESP can take chances and offer things like that, and Ibanez is playing it safe...as usual.

Ibanez is not doing anything unique like that also. I wish they would! You can't even consider them when looking at a another guitar because they don't offer a baritone. But they do offer a thousand rg shaped guitars.

Its also a matter of the cheap stuff sells. That's why they have so many guitars under a grand.

Could it be an Universe?

The neck is based off the early Universe so kind of but no.

 

[metale]

The neck is based off the early Universe so kind of but no.

Sorry, I meant to quote toiletstand's post above.

 

[thrashcomics]

just so everyone knows...the u bar is not to keep palm muting off the bridge. they made it so they could use their palms for trem effects like just banging on the trem with their hands.