New Jake Bowen (Perphery) sig. Ibanez

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neck type: JBM 3pc Maple/Bubinga neck
body: Maple top/Mahogany body
fretboard: Bound Ebony fretboard w/JBM special 12th fret inlay
frets: Jumbo frets w/Prestige fret edge treatment
bridge: Lo-pro Edge bridge
neck pu: DiMarzio Titan (His new sig. pickup)
bridge pu: DiMarzio Titan
 
Re: New Jake Bowen (Perphery) sig. Ibanez

interesting! Im NOT trying to stir the pot, honestly, but are all these dif sig pickups that much diff? This one obviously looks different.. Seems like Dim gives a sig pup to every artist that has some success.
 
Re: New Jake Bowen (Perphery) sig. Ibanez

Mebbe it's my OCD,but it either needs Blk tuners or a Gold Bridge...

Other than that,it's OK! :p

Got p/up specs?
 
Re: New Jake Bowen (Perphery) sig. Ibanez

Needs the knob moved and a toggle, but other than that I can dig it. I even kinda like the gold/black thing.
 
Re: New Jake Bowen (Perphery) sig. Ibanez

It's cool to see Ibanez binging back the ebony fretboards on their guitars. That was one thing that really stopped me from buying an Ibanez, but I might take a look at their Artstar line. Good looking stuff from them. I really like the Fieldy Signature bass (the white one with the blue strings) and that Jake Bowen would look really good with a Gold bridge.
 
Re: New Jake Bowen (Perphery) sig. Ibanez

There she is! Ever since the Titan demo video Dimarzio put up I've been wanting this guitar.
 
Re: New Jake Bowen (Perphery) sig. Ibanez

I beg your pardon but that sounds like a kid playing a midrange Schecter through a line 6 pod. I wouldn't quite call it the epitome of guitar tone, to put it mildly.

Oh and the bridge doesn't look lo-pro to me, for the record.
 
Re: New Jake Bowen (Perphery) sig. Ibanez

Well Periphery does use a lot of modeling stuff (like an AxeFX).

I wouldn't be surprised if Jake's got a Music Man at some point in the near future. I also wouldn't be surprised if John Petrucci was the one to get Bowen the deal with DiMarzio. Petrucci is his uncle after all.
 
Re: New Jake Bowen (Perphery) sig. Ibanez

Gold plated bridges and knobs are okay if you're a bedroom guitarist that has tons of guitars to switch between, doesn't play that much/doesn't play that particular guitar with the gold plating much, don't sweat that much/have fairly non corrosive sweat and don't do heaps of palm muting.
For anyone that plays the **** out of their guitar, the gold plating goes bad real quick and it costs time and money to have it look good again. Being out on the road playing tons of gigs only exacerbates the issue and it's simply not worth the hassle.
I'd rather have a bridge that initially looks a bit less exciting, but in the long term will continue to look good, than one that looks great for a short while then looks horrible not long after.
The guitar is based on his LACS model, so it comes with the hardware that he chose and it may even be that he simply prefers the look of the black bridge.
As for the the volume knob, Periphery don't do anything that requires rolling back the volume control during songs (they tend to just either go from completely clean to the gain sounds, not in between 'on the edge of breakup kinda stuff), so it's a non-issue for Jake to have it far away like that
 
Re: New Jake Bowen (Perphery) sig. Ibanez

Van Noord said:
nah too matchy matchy that way.
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Gold covered pups, gold tuners, that gold stripe around the outside, and a gold knob and bridge is "too matchy"?

I've got a mahogany bodied Les Paul with black tuners, black knobs, a black bridge and gold pickup covers, and it works... But only because it's a PowerBridge and has silver and gold accents on the piezo elements.

It needs a gold bridge.


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Re: New Jake Bowen (Perphery) sig. Ibanez

Petrovsk Mizinski said:
Gold plated bridges and knobs are okay if you're a bedroom guitarist that has tons of guitars to switch between, doesn't play that much/doesn't play that particular guitar with the gold plating much, don't sweat that much/have fairly non corrosive sweat and don't do heaps of palm muting.
For anyone that plays the **** out of their guitar, the gold plating goes bad real quick and it costs time and money to have it look good again. Being out on the road playing tons of gigs only exacerbates the issue and it's simply not worth the hassle.
I'd rather have a bridge that initially looks a bit less exciting, but in the long term will continue to look good, than one that looks great for a short while then looks horrible not long after.
The guitar is based on his LACS model, so it comes with the hardware that he chose and it may even be that he simply prefers the look of the black bridge.
As for the the volume knob, Periphery don't do anything that requires rolling back the volume control during songs (they tend to just either go from completely clean to the gain sounds, not in between 'on the edge of breakup kinda stuff), so it's a non-issue for Jake to have it far away like that
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The whole reason to get gold hardware IS so gets worn looking. Relicing is only lame if its done in a workshop.
 
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