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Forum Ringside => Guitars, Amps and Effects => Topic started by: Crazy_Joe on August 21, 2008, 02:59:00 PM

Title: Is it just me, or is anyone else gasing for this Ibanez?
Post by: Crazy_Joe on August 21, 2008, 02:59:00 PM
Ibanez RGR08LTD

(http://www.guitar.co.uk/documents/2229/2229-large-4.jpg)

Product Details:

    * 3 piece Wizard II neck
    * Rosewood fingerboard
    * Basswood body
    * 24 jumbo frets
    * Fixed bridge
    * Pearloid Inlays
    * White Body and Neck Binding
    * Reverse headstock
    * Seymour Duncan Blackout active pickup
    * Volume control and kill switch

http://www.guitarampkeyboard.com/en/76395

All for the bargain price of £249!

1 Pickup Ibanez w/Seymour Duncan Blackout, Kill switch, Fixed bridge, Reverse headstock, body binding.
Could there be anything better?
Title: Re: Is it just me, or is anyone else gasing for this Ibanez?
Post by: Twinfan on August 21, 2008, 03:09:31 PM
If it had an Edge trem, I would have bought one before I got my Baretta....
Title: Re: Is it just me, or is anyone else gasing for this Ibanez?
Post by: Crazy_Joe on August 21, 2008, 03:18:31 PM
I'm still trying to decide if it's better with trem or not. I think i like it without it though because it makes it so simple that way. Just pure rock.
Title: Re: Is it just me, or is anyone else gasing for this Ibanez?
Post by: Sifu Ben on August 21, 2008, 03:59:24 PM
I want it, I just don't need it  :( It's a cool guitar for a great price.
Title: Re: Is it just me, or is anyone else gasing for this Ibanez?
Post by: HTH AMPS on August 21, 2008, 04:20:56 PM
add a khaler and it would be a metal beast worthy of Slayer riffage
Title: Re: Is it just me, or is anyone else gasing for this Ibanez?
Post by: Crazy_Joe on August 21, 2008, 08:42:42 PM
Ima go play it at Coda Music soon, hopefully it's cr@p and i hate it so i won't have to buy it :P
Title: Re: Is it just me, or is anyone else gasing for this Ibanez?
Post by: HTH AMPS on August 21, 2008, 09:06:37 PM
Ima go play it at Coda Music soon, hopefully it's cr@p and i hate it so i won't have to buy it :P

lmao, you're fooling nobody CJ  - you're going home with that baby.

I'm gasing for a trem axe for mental riffage, seriously considering a Khaler on my Explorer.
Title: Re: Is it just me, or is anyone else gasing for this Ibanez?
Post by: Nadz1lla on August 22, 2008, 08:48:33 AM
Saw this axe in my local, it does look very nice it has to be said, and for someone like me who only needs a pup and a volume knob it's perfect. Just simple rocking goodness!  :D
Title: Re: Is it just me, or is anyone else gasing for this Ibanez?
Post by: Philly Q on August 22, 2008, 09:14:32 AM
Not my kind of thing of course, but the simplicity is attractive.  Which is more than can be said about those inlays :| - plain unmarked rosewood (or ebony) would look a lot better.
Title: Re: Is it just me, or is anyone else gasing for this Ibanez?
Post by: phlip on August 22, 2008, 09:30:19 AM
I played one recently for a mate how hates trying guitars in shops, but trusts my judgment. God knows why I love Les Pauls and he Loves wide flat necks. Anyway thats beside the point.

It's a great playing guitar, I found the pickup to be uber bland though, lacking in character and very over compressed and not in a nice Painkiller/Nailbomb way. buy it stick a nice pickup in it and convert the kill switch to a coilt tab and your onto a winner  :D
Title: Re: Is it just me, or is anyone else gasing for this Ibanez?
Post by: hunter on August 24, 2008, 06:26:43 AM

Very cool.

I always loved the look of reverse Ibanez headstocks!

To satisfy that craving, I would rather get one of these than a Gilbert signature.
Title: Re: Is it just me, or is anyone else gasing for this Ibanez?
Post by: gwEm on August 24, 2008, 11:42:55 AM
not quite my taste, but the spec is great isn't it? cool guitar.
Title: Re: Is it just me, or is anyone else gasing for this Ibanez?
Post by: Ted 'N' Leo on August 24, 2008, 12:23:45 PM
There was a kid playing one when I was in a shop yesterday. If trivium/killswitch is your kinda thing, seemed like it could do it well.
Title: Re: Is it just me, or is anyone else gasing for this Ibanez?
Post by: indysmith on August 24, 2008, 02:08:02 PM
Change the body for alder.
Change the fingerboard for an Ebony or Maple one, with sharktooths.
Title: Re: Is it just me, or is anyone else gasing for this Ibanez?
Post by: Crazy_Joe on August 24, 2008, 04:55:29 PM
Ima go play it at Coda Music soon, hopefully it's cr@p and i hate it so i won't have to buy it :P

lmao, you're fooling nobody CJ  - you're going home with that baby.

I'm gasing for a trem axe for mental riffage, seriously considering a Khaler on my Explorer.

Haha, i'll try and hold myself back unless it is truely amazing.

Explorer with a Kahler sounds like a great idea!
Title: Re: Is it just me, or is anyone else gasing for this Ibanez?
Post by: Nameless on August 25, 2008, 01:47:31 AM
I don't have Ibanez GAS.. but I do have an RG prestige.. which might be something to do with it..


*first post*
Title: Re: Is it just me, or is anyone else gasing for this Ibanez?
Post by: the_bleeding on August 25, 2008, 05:33:10 AM
great for the price, don't get me wrong... but...

single pickup? basswood body? rosewood fingerboard? not a fan =/
Title: Re: Is it just me, or is anyone else gasing for this Ibanez?
Post by: Alex on August 25, 2008, 10:31:18 AM
I had a RG made in Japan. It just was not for me. You should try it thoroughly first, the neck is superflat and thin and it has huge jumbo frets. That was just not for my hand.

One pickup is also not a good idea, in fact I love the 3-pickup setup (H-S-H). It's just so much more options and the middle single coil is surprisingly fun IMO.
Title: Re: Is it just me, or is anyone else gasing for this Ibanez?
Post by: Nadz1lla on August 25, 2008, 01:22:29 PM


*first post*

Welcome!   :D
Title: Re: Is it just me, or is anyone else gasing for this Ibanez?
Post by: Crazy_Joe on August 25, 2008, 02:12:47 PM
I had a RG made in Japan. It just was not for me. You should try it thoroughly first, the neck is superflat and thin and it has huge jumbo frets. That was just not for my hand.

One pickup is also not a good idea, in fact I love the 3-pickup setup (H-S-H). It's just so much more options and the middle single coil is surprisingly fun IMO.

Haha, i already have an Ibanez RG though that is made in Japan (i think this 1 pickup one is a korean one) it's got HSH and i love the feel of it, that's why i was thinking of buying this because i love the feel of an RG and i can get a lot of great sounds from it.

If i did get this 1 pickup RG i would probably fit a coil tap to the pickup so i could get some better cleans and more sounds. But tbh i think you're missing the point, you don't buy a 1 pickup guitar if you want loads of sounds, there's a reason why it's 1 pickup, so you can do some straight out rockin :P
Title: Re: Is it just me, or is anyone else gasing for this Ibanez?
Post by: Sifu Ben on August 26, 2008, 02:41:20 PM
You can't tap it, you'd need to change the pickup. I believe the only actives you can split are the EMG 89 and their new 81-TW.
Title: Re: Is it just me, or is anyone else gasing for this Ibanez?
Post by: Crazy_Joe on August 26, 2008, 04:19:16 PM
Really?

Well that sucks, i'd have to BKP it then if wanted to tap it.
Title: Re: Is it just me, or is anyone else gasing for this Ibanez?
Post by: Sifu Ben on August 26, 2008, 04:53:20 PM
It's something to do with the construction. The EMGs are in fact a squashed humbucker and a single in the same housing, so you don't really tap, you switch pickups.
Title: Re: Is it just me, or is anyone else gasing for this Ibanez?
Post by: Crazy_Joe on August 27, 2008, 07:47:46 PM
I'm still gasing for it, doesn't help that i've just had a birthday and have some spare cash lying around :x