Gentlemen Behold!

Beecher

Its only 12:35 in the pm as I write this and its already a day I will remember forever. Firstly we finally kicked out some b*tch who's been living with us in the house for wwaaayyy too long , then a little package came for me in the post containing a Dimarzio Air Norton which was sweet, and then a larger parcel arrived for me containing...

















My new J-craft Prestige Ibanez with piezo's. If I were to spec my ideal guitar this would pretty much be it bar the V8 and V7 pickups, but ive got my air-norton for the neck and my Steve's Special for the bridge is en route which fixes that, and ive got a rosewood truss-rod cover with my name engraved also on the way

Im shocked at how good a floyd rose can be though!! I was always kinda against them but the piezo's in this tipped the scales a little enough for me to put up with it, but with this bridge I can unlock the top, drop the E and still retain perfect tuning for the rest of the strings, alternate tunings are also a doddle on this! (Sorry this is a revelation for me, the highest quality floyd I had before this was a lo-trs II).

Edit: I f*cking love this paint job! Its galaxy black, kinda looks pure back until some light shines on it then it sparkles! wow!

Merrick

ooooohh.... aaaaahh....
Nice!

Voodu Child

Thats nice, congrats

Once you get to prestige spec Ibanez's, the build quality and playability doesnt get too much better than that, they really are brilliantly made guitars. I bet the fretwork is lovely too?

If you need any help getting the trem set up perfectly, give me a shout.

Owen

So, if she has Piezo's, does she have the 13 Pin Roland Output? You could get some sweet synth action going if she does.

Don't understand people's hangups with Floyds, I was in Manhattan last month looking at 7 strings, and I wouldn't buy because I couldn't find one with a floyd. Makes it less effort to bend strings, and I've no sustain/tone issues on my Jem with it. Couldn't go back to fixed bridge if you paid me!

Owen.

Doctor J

**** yeah, that's real purty! Welcom to the piezo trem club. Your membership number is... 2

John

Nice! What's your address again?

fish-head

Congrats buddy. Name engraved truss cover.. you flash bastard!

Karl Hungus

Man, that is absolutely sweet! And an Air Norton & Steve's Special? Sweet.

Johnny Storm

Verrry nice! ENjoy it! Nice pix too.:D

Beecher

voodoo_child wrote:

Once you get to prestige spec Ibanez's, the build quality and playability doesnt get too much better than that, they really are brilliantly made guitars. I bet the fretwork is lovely too?

If you need any help getting the trem set up perfectly, give me a shout.

Man its unreal, esp the neck! The fretwork is nothing short of superb. Cheers for the offer with the trem but the guitar arrived with a nearly perfect setup, only took me 5 mins to have her perfect!

Doctor J wrote:

Welcom to the piezo trem club. Your membership number is... 2

Could this day be any more complete!

Ned 78 wrote:

So, if she has Piezo's, does she have the 13 Pin Roland Output? You could get some sweet synth action going if she does.

Don't understand people's hangups with Floyds, I was in Manhattan last month looking at 7 strings, and I wouldn't buy because I couldn't find one with a floyd. Makes it less effort to bend strings, and I've no sustain/tone issues on my Jem with it. Couldn't go back to fixed bridge if you paid me!

Nah, you can get either a piezo bridge or a roland compatable GK bridge. The piezo has two standard outputs so you can send the magnetic pickups and the piezo's to 2 seperate amplifiers, or you can just switch between the magnetic and piezo pickups from the one output, or blend the two together

I always liked the feel of playing on floyds but on lower quality floyds, which is what ive always had till now, I found changing tuning required a lot of bridge re-balancing. This bridge is a f*cking dream, im ssooo tempted to thrown an RG1527 prestige onto my credit card now just to have a 7 string with a similar bridge.

John2 wrote:

Nice! What's your address again?

123 Fake Street.

fish-head wrote:

Congrats buddy. Name engraved truss cover.. you flash bastard!

I have always wanted a custom trussrod cover on a guitar and once I played this....well it has all the markings so far to be 'the one' so I put the order through straight away

Karl Hungus wrote:

Man, that is absolutely sweet! And an Air Norton & Steve's Special? Sweet.

Cheers dude, yeah the pickups should be petrucci-riffic! 100 quid for the pair off ebay so I couldnt say no

fish-head

Beecher wrote:

I have always wanted a custom trussrod cover on a guitar and once I played this....well it has all the markings so far to be 'the one' so I put the order through straight away

Whereabouts did ya get it? Sounds like a slick idea..

Beecher

From here. Getting it in rosewood so its like a continuation of the fretboard

vengeance52

im drooling, that is a f*#king amazing guitar.

You slick mofo

-V-

Patricide

RAther sexy guitar, how much did said beauty set you back?

weemcd

absolutly savage guitar, the third last picture (inside the case) makes it look like a smouldering gift from the devil!

Rustar

Ibanez, piezos, Floyd.....Brilliant!

Beecher

Patricide wrote:

RAther sexy guitar, how much did said beauty set you back?

800 including delivery off e-bay, which aint bad cause its 1,500 in musicmaker and their model doesnt have the new J-Craft neck