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I'll start off by saying i know a lot of people are not huge fans of ibanez and that's fine as its all a matter of personal preference.
I have owned many guitars over the years liked some and disliked others. I have come to realize a couple things,
I love telecasters, not a huge fan of Gibson they play very well, but after the honeymoon phase i tend to sell them as they don't get played. I believe this to be more of a scale issue, my fat little fingers tend to get along with the 25.5" scale more when i get down to doing chord inversions around the 9th to 12th fret, i just don't feel as cramped. I also prefer a wider nut width, 42mm + just feels a bit nicer. For fretboard radius my preference is around 12" however i don't mind any thing really from vintage fender 7.25" to Ibanez 17"
Back about 10 years ago i bought an RG350DX, The guitar was shit and could never set up the bridge properly or get the fret buzz out of the neck with having the action at a decent height, so the guitar rarely ever got played. However always liked the feeling of the neck, mainly the width (43mm) & the string spacing. I would like the neck a tad fatter but can play with the wizard necks with no issue.
So a couple weeks ago an Ibanez prestige 1570 popped up on kijiji at a decent price so i picked it up, hoping the higher end guitar would play better then my piece of crap. After about 3 weeks of having it i still cant put it down, and can say its everything i had hoped for. Set up the edge pro with minimal frustration, which was a huge plus.
Now i play a lot of metal and hardcore music but im not a huge fan of "Metal Guitars" look, which is why when the 1570 popped up i jumped all over it. The shape of an RG is still kinda metal though, not in an unbearable kind of way but its still metal.
Which got me thinking is there another guitar manufacturer that makes a guitar with the neck of an Ibanez (including string spacing and 25.5" scale) but with a body more like a telecaster with a hardtail bridge? Or would my best option be to piece together a partscaster and get a custom neck and take measurements to figure out the actual string spacing i like and then make a custom nut and go that route.
I kind of wanted to avoid the custom route as in my head an Ibanez neck on a Tele would be awesome but in actuality i may very well dislike it and would like to avoid wasting a couple hundred on a neck if i didn't have to.
Anyways let me know your thoughts and possibly any other guitars i should try so that i may finally find my holy grail of guitars. (I know this will never happen)
I have owned many guitars over the years liked some and disliked others. I have come to realize a couple things,
I love telecasters, not a huge fan of Gibson they play very well, but after the honeymoon phase i tend to sell them as they don't get played. I believe this to be more of a scale issue, my fat little fingers tend to get along with the 25.5" scale more when i get down to doing chord inversions around the 9th to 12th fret, i just don't feel as cramped. I also prefer a wider nut width, 42mm + just feels a bit nicer. For fretboard radius my preference is around 12" however i don't mind any thing really from vintage fender 7.25" to Ibanez 17"
Back about 10 years ago i bought an RG350DX, The guitar was shit and could never set up the bridge properly or get the fret buzz out of the neck with having the action at a decent height, so the guitar rarely ever got played. However always liked the feeling of the neck, mainly the width (43mm) & the string spacing. I would like the neck a tad fatter but can play with the wizard necks with no issue.
So a couple weeks ago an Ibanez prestige 1570 popped up on kijiji at a decent price so i picked it up, hoping the higher end guitar would play better then my piece of crap. After about 3 weeks of having it i still cant put it down, and can say its everything i had hoped for. Set up the edge pro with minimal frustration, which was a huge plus.
Now i play a lot of metal and hardcore music but im not a huge fan of "Metal Guitars" look, which is why when the 1570 popped up i jumped all over it. The shape of an RG is still kinda metal though, not in an unbearable kind of way but its still metal.
Which got me thinking is there another guitar manufacturer that makes a guitar with the neck of an Ibanez (including string spacing and 25.5" scale) but with a body more like a telecaster with a hardtail bridge? Or would my best option be to piece together a partscaster and get a custom neck and take measurements to figure out the actual string spacing i like and then make a custom nut and go that route.
I kind of wanted to avoid the custom route as in my head an Ibanez neck on a Tele would be awesome but in actuality i may very well dislike it and would like to avoid wasting a couple hundred on a neck if i didn't have to.
Anyways let me know your thoughts and possibly any other guitars i should try so that i may finally find my holy grail of guitars. (I know this will never happen)
