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  • #31
    Re: Ibanez wood fraud

    Originally posted by WDeeGee View Post
    PS: Please let's all stay on topic: Ibanez lying about their specs.

    Please cease the tonewood debate here.
    Ibanez is a pretty well-known company with a lot of skin in the game, so to speak. I think intentionally lying about specs or wood of a model would be pretty bad from a PR level because someone will find out, somehow. Be cautious with assigning malicious intent where there likely is none.

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    • #32
      Re: Ibanez wood fraud

      Interesting subject anyway.

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      • #33
        Re: Ibanez wood fraud

        OP here: Plot twist.

        Call me dumb but I noticed the pups were set rather low. I put them a bit higher and.... tadaaa... a full, fat bass sound!!!

        Exit the midrangy, weak, sustainless "bass" and meet what is now a fat, great sounding bass guitar. And as far as the wood issue is concerned: somebody over at a woodworking forum told me it could be "white mahogany", a blonde wood, which techically isn't mahogany, but I really no longer care what kind of wood they used because the bass sounds excellent for its price range. If its ounds great, who cares what it's made of?

        Keep the good basses coming, Ibanez (but don't tell people A is B).

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        • #34
          Re: Ibanez wood fraud

          White mahogany - meranti or yellowheart.
          aka Chris Pile, formerly of Six String Fever

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          • #35
            Re: Ibanez wood fraud

            Great it turned out fine!

            Anyway I agree with OP earlier opinion. Marketing something as specific wood and selling whatever is kind of a middle finger for customer, and literally lying. So it's not slamming, but legit complaint and bad rep from that is certainly deserved.

            It doesn't matter how it great sounds. It's about principle.
            "So understand/Don't waste your time always searching for those wasted years/Face up, make your stand/And realize you're living in the golden years"
            Iron Maiden - Wasted Years

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            • #36
              Re: Ibanez wood fraud

              Originally posted by Jacew View Post
              Great it turned out fine!

              Anyway I agree with OP earlier opinion. Marketing something as specific wood and selling whatever is kind of a middle finger for customer, and literally lying. So it's not slamming, but legit complaint and bad rep from that is certainly deserved.

              It doesn't matter how it great sounds. It's about principle.
              Again..."mahogany" is not a specific wood. Nowhere close. It's stated as just "mahogany" specifically in order to be vague.

              "Genuine mahogany," "true mahogany," and "Honduran mahogany" have more specific meaning. "Mahogany" can mean any one of a hundred or more species of tree, running the gamut of wood characteristics.

              It's deliberate imprecision – not fraud.
              Originally posted by LesStrat
              Yogi Berra was correct.
              Originally posted by JOLLY
              I do a few chord things, some crappy lead stuff, and then some rhythm stuff.

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              • #37
                Re: Ibanez wood fraud

                Originally posted by ItsaBass View Post
                Again..."mahogany" is not a specific wood. Nowhere close. It's stated as just "mahogany" specifically in order to be vague.

                "Genuine mahogany," "true mahogany," and "Honduran mahogany" have more specific meaning. "Mahogany" can mean any one of a hundred or more species of tree, running the gamut of wood characteristics.

                It's deliberate imprecision – not fraud.
                Yea, I know. Working in forestry and all...

                If it actually is a wood sold and accepted as mahogany, my apologies. (Honestly it's pretty crap practice to begin with to call bunch of wildly different species by same name as ICT said but anyway...)

                But I understood, (and thought from the picture.) it was Agathis?
                "So understand/Don't waste your time always searching for those wasted years/Face up, make your stand/And realize you're living in the golden years"
                Iron Maiden - Wasted Years

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                • #38
                  Re: Ibanez wood fraud

                  I don't know, all I know it's a blonde wood, tinted green, and weights a ton. It's really heavy for such a small body.

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                  • #39
                    Re: Ibanez wood fraud

                    hmmm

                    OP

                    oddly enough
                    I briefly had a SR520 as well
                    thats the one with the solid paint job, right?
                    mine was in black sparkle with gold hardware

                    the original owner bought it back after about a year
                    EHD
                    Just here surfing Guitar Pron
                    RG2EX1 w/ SD hot-rodded pickups / RG4EXFM1 w/ Carvin S22j/b + FVN middle
                    SR500 / Martin 000CE-1/Epiphone Hummingbird
                    Epiphone Florentine with OEM Probuckers
                    Ehdwuld branded Blue semi hollow custom with JB/Jazz
                    Reptile Green Gibson Custom Studio / Aqua Dean Shire semi hollow with piezo
                    Carvin Belair / Laney GC80A Acoustic Amp (a gift from Guitar Player Mag)
                    GNX3000 (yea I'm a modeler)

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                    • #40
                      Re: Ibanez wood fraud

                      Yes, the SR520 has a lackered body and neck.

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                      • #41
                        Re: Ibanez wood fraud

                        Originally posted by ItsaBass View Post

                        It's deliberate imprecision – not fraud.
                        Uhm... it is deceptive. Maybe not to someone who's aware of the fiddling goin' on with wood names like you, but is remains wilfull deception. I'm just glad the bass sound good now, with the pups raised a bit. Made quite a difference.

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                        • #42
                          Re: Ibanez wood fraud

                          Originally posted by WDeeGee View Post
                          Uhm... it is deceptive. Maybe not to someone who's aware of the fiddling goin' on with wood names like you, but is remains wilfull deception. I'm just glad the bass sound good now, with the pups raised a bit. Made quite a difference.
                          No, it is not.

                          They stated what it is made of, and that’s almost certainly what it’s made of. What they stated simply covers a broad range of lumber.
                          Originally posted by LesStrat
                          Yogi Berra was correct.
                          Originally posted by JOLLY
                          I do a few chord things, some crappy lead stuff, and then some rhythm stuff.

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                          • #43
                            Re: Ibanez wood fraud

                            Originally posted by ItsaBass View Post
                            No, it is not.

                            They stated what it is made of, and that’s almost certainly what it’s made of. What they stated simply covers a broad range of lumber.
                            So what it is made of ?
                            "So understand/Don't waste your time always searching for those wasted years/Face up, make your stand/And realize you're living in the golden years"
                            Iron Maiden - Wasted Years

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                            • #44
                              Re: Ibanez wood fraud

                              Originally posted by Jacew View Post
                              So what it is made of ?
                              Wood, according to 4/5 attorneys.

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                              • #45
                                Re: Ibanez wood fraud

                                Originally posted by Jacew View Post
                                So what it is made of ?
                                As spec’d, most likely.
                                Originally posted by LesStrat
                                Yogi Berra was correct.
                                Originally posted by JOLLY
                                I do a few chord things, some crappy lead stuff, and then some rhythm stuff.

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