QUOTE (Owen @ Nov 18 2007, 02:00 AM)
To be fair, you expected a relatively cheap Ibanez made in Japan or somewhere distant, to better or match a 1961 Gibson Les Paul?
Thats some pretty high expectations, I can see why you'd be getting frustrated, I've played a few guitars made in these factories in this price range and always felt disappointed but I wouldnt have been expecting miracles in the first place.
You would have probably had to get a higher range Ibanez - lets say a Jem, to be fully satisfied with it. Everyone is always going on about the value of midrange Ibanez, but having played a few in the past few weeks in my guitar hunt I've usually found that they felt cheap and the necks were running at odd angles at about the 7th fret.
How straight is the neck btw?
That 's one of the problems - The neck had too much relief. The Intonation was way off on the D string. Of course me being the idiot of floating bridges, every time I fixed something - then stuff was really going wrong somewhere else. I guess some folks have good luck with these guitars, but I demand perfection - it has to be in perfect tune - which is a crap shoot with these floating trems - plus I have tried my best to match the "action" or string Height of these guitars - no way - I have got better results with a $200 YAMAHA STRAT.
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