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Author Message   Chucke99 Username: Chucke99 Registered: 2-2007 Posted on Tuesday, July 10, 2007 - 12:53 am:    For sale at GuitarCenter.com, I went to the Kirkland , WA store to check it out (even though they want $999 for it): http://used.guitarcenter.com/usedgear/details.cfm?listId=603106423 One look and I knew it wasn't an Ibanez. I took a closer up picture of the body and headstock (crappy cell phone camera): It's a set neck, but so much is different on it, it's hard to even say it's an Ibanez body with upgraded hardware. The tuners are schallers, and nothing else looks stock. The headstock does not have an Ibanez logo. The guy at the store tells me, "but that's the Ibanez headstock design there." I said it wasn't (it felt like it was applied and then laquered over). He said the guy who sold it to the store is an Ibanez expert. I said "I'm an Ibanez collector myself!" At that point, they backed off their assertion, let me take some photos, and said that if I can identify what it really is, they would change their posting and how they describe it in the store. So tell, me, this isn't Ibanez, right? Or, at the very least, it's an Ibanez body buried under a bad overlay job and terrible hardware upgrades. -Chuck   Sixvsix Username: Sixvsix Registered: 3-2002 Posted on Tuesday, July 10, 2007 - 2:55 am:    Nice, but what model was the VOX in the background? six   Tbplayer Username: Tbplayer Registered: 4-2007 Posted on Tuesday, July 10, 2007 - 9:15 am:    did ibanez have an LP with the quater sawn maple top? di marzio once built an un finished body. a DYI kit . who knows? the narrow headstock is intresting.   Chucke99 Username: Chucke99 Registered: 2-2007 Posted on Tuesday, July 10, 2007 - 5:59 pm:    TB, there might be something to that DIY kit idea. The headstock inlays definitely felt hand-done. I don't have the vision I used to (lasik surgery fixed my long-distance vision but trashed my super-close-up vision) but something about that flame top shouts "photo-flame" to me. The finish on the body was also not super-smooth, and may have been hand-done as well.   Tbplayer Username: Tbplayer Registered: 4-2007 Posted on Tuesday, July 10, 2007 - 7:08 pm:    never thought of the photo-flame. a guy i know, bought one of the dimarzio bodies from music emporium 20 years ago. it had a figured top. but the P-F....as narrow as the headstock is..i wonder if it is an epiphone that had a date with a band saw?   Chucke99 Username: Chucke99 Registered: 2-2007 Posted on Tuesday, July 10, 2007 - 7:18 pm:    I looked at old online Ibanez catalogs and whenever a set neck LP has the trapezoid fret inlays, there is no inlay on the first fret. But to me, on the picture I uploaded, that first inlay looks a little crooked, so who knows, maybe it was added by the same craftsman who did the headstock inlays? A strange guitar all around. Again, not worth the friggin' $999 that GC wants for it, no matter who made it.   Tbplayer Username: Tbplayer Registered: 4-2007 Posted on Wednesday, July 11, 2007 - 11:58 am:    as for the price, you're dead right. and from the looks of it...i wouldn't go straight to "craftsman" ya know.

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