New Ibanez

Lucius Paisley

Lucius Paisley

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I gave up breakfast this morning to buy this.

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1999 RG 270. Nice little pawnshop purchase. $179 AU - £98 - $118 US - €111, whatever's your poison.

The tremolo is blocked, but it's nice and stable. Tuned for barre chords, so I haven't needed to change the strings over to play it. Been quite fun.

Not sure if I need to change anything, but we'll see.
 
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Almost all the best playing guitar I've ever had have been Ibanez. I'm personally a sucker for Wizard necks.

Congrats!
 
Ibanez makes really good guitars. I just bought a 2006 SZ520QM and it's as good as the PRS S2 McCarthy I tried and my Gibson LP.
 
Ashurbanipal said:
Good stuff; with a few tweaks, the lower-mid budget Ibz are ready for anything.

The trem arm is a screw-in type, part number 2SL2C-1C.
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While I have ordered a trem arm via AliExpress - it's really not worth tracking down the EXACT arm for the price and attempting to work around licensing to get most places to send one to me... I mean, seriously, there's an arm on Reverb that's about $50 before shipping, it's ridiculous - it's still in hardtail mode at the moment, which is fine while it stays in tune.

If the arm doesn't fit right, then I've lost $10 (damn the goods tax in this country, it would be half that otherwise), no big deal. If it fits, it saves me having to replace the whole unit which would cost more than I paid for the guitar.

So it's kind of a win/sort-of-win situation.
 
Yep, I understand. As an owner of old (discontinued) Ibz, I see plenty of jokers who ask daft money for certain parts, e.g. the boomerang strap buttons which adorned everything 1983-85 and the original Top-Lok III nut installed on the first Edge loaded guitars. You'd think they were made of platinum or something.
 
There's a guy on the Ibanez Collectors World forum who makes and sells vintage, New Old Stock, or re-popped parts for Ibanez....
 
Not to be negative, but I don't think that trem is worth investing too much time or money on.

Don't mean to come off as snobby. I really don't. But those are single-locking, I believe, and don't get the best reviews from Ibanez people.

Even if you can get an arm for it, I don't think the functionality is going to be all that great. Better off blocking it with some wood blocks.

JMO.
 
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Ultimately yes. If you want a trem that works, slap in a GE1996T and call it a day. These single lockers don't do anything more than light wobble.
 
The arm is $10. I'm not precisely saving up for my kid's inheritance.

Too many people jump on the "it has to be a Floyd" wagon... or pick a brand; Gotoh, Schaller, Kahler, and even Wilkinson, all have hundreds of fans claiming their favourite is the best system to have.

Since I will eventually have to put strings in the right way up for left-handed, wouldn't it be interesting if that was the trick to getting 100% stability all along?

At the moment it already has wooden blocks in place, if things don't work out, I can just have them put right back in again.
 
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