Ibanez AFC95 Artcore Expressionist Hollowbody Electric Guitar

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The Ibanez AFC95 Artcore Expressionist takes the traditional sound of an archtop and re-energizes it with sleek, modern looks and custom humbucker pickups.

What's special about this item?

Feature: What it does:
Spruce top Articulate tone, projects well, resists scratches
Flamed maple back and sides Beautiful grain, crisp and responsive tone
Ebony fretboard Dark color, tight grain; premium fretboard wood
Ebony bridge Enhanced mass and beauty

Ibanez AFC95 Artcore Expressionist Hollowbody Electric Guitar is new from the Contemporary Archtop series. For many decades, Ibanez has been re-energizing the hollow body world with a wide variety of original designs, unrivaled playability and polished tones. By closely working with many legendary artists Ibanez is constantly striving to experiment, innovate and deliver. This enthusiasm for exploration has led to the Contemporary Archtop series, customized specifically to meet the demands of today's cutting edge players.

The AFC95 features a larger headstock design, 3-piece Mahogany/ Maple set-in neck and a bound Ebony fretboard for smooth articulation. It's built with a selected Spruce top, Flamed Maple back and sides to provide its stylish appearance and balanced tone, and with the addition of plywood top, helps to avoid unnecessary feedback. The rock solid Ebony compensated bridge give the output a clear intonation, longer sustain and acoustic resonance.

The AFC95 comes with the Ibanez custom made "Magic Touch-Mini" humbucker pickups, providing a balance of classic tones, alongside clear articulation on both the top and bottom of the sound spectrum. Players can enjoy the clean response on the top end, presenting fast melodies or complex chord progressions with clarity and precision. The bottom end also has a deep warm and rich classic sound, but with a clarity specially adjusted to help avoid muddy low end tones. This tonal balance is complimented by the pickups' extra sensitivity read more that clearly captures and accentuates the players pick attack and plucking style opening the possibilities of a wide range of playing techniques. Thanks to floating mount, the "Magic Touch-Mini" pickups do not dampen the guitars natural body vibration, thus allowing a bigger richer acoustic tone. These are all complimented by the newly designed pickguard, tailpiece cover and wooden control knobs.

Ibanez AFC95 Features

- Neck: AFC 3pc Nyatoh/Maple set-in neck
- Top: Spruce
- Back & Sides: Flamed Maple
- Fretboard: Bound Ebony
- Dot Inlay: Acrylic off-set block inlay
- Frets: Medium
- Neck pickup: Magic Touch-Mini (H) neck pickup
- Bridge pickup: Magic Touch-Mini (H) bridge pickup
- Bridge: Ebony bridge w/Compensated Ebony saddle
- Tailpiece: VT14 tailpiece w/AFC wood cover
- Hardware: Gold
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Neck Dimensions
- Scale: 24.7"
- Width: 43mm at NUT
- Width: 56mm at 20F
- Thickness: 21mm at 1F
- Thickness: 24mm at 9F
- Radius: 305mmR

Body Dimensions
- Length: 19 1/2"
- Width: 15 3/4"
- Max Depth: 3 5/8"

For support or warranty questions, please contact the manufacturer:
Phone: 800-669-8262
Web: https://www.ibanez.com/usa/support/

Reviewers gave this product an overall rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars. (1 ratings)
Submitted March 19, 2018 by Tarious Hill in Tuscaloosa, AL

"Surprisingly versatile guitar!"

Overall: 4.5 out of 5 stars
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When I got this guitar this thing was a beauty to behold! the natural finish with the black hardware is cool and the wooden volume and tone knobs is a nice touch. The guitar needed a little done to it but after that it plays like butter. This guitar is small compared to the average sized archtop and it's light as a feather! Now for the sound. It's on the bright side but very punchy to me. The mini humbucking pickups gives you a more modern jazz sound on the neck pickup. If you roll the tone off and the volume just a tad with the right amp like a fender twin you can get close to a vintage jazz sound. Now on my Hot Rod deluxe with the volume full and the tone full I can get a classic jazz tone. Now the middle position is clear and punchy. Cuts through the mix very well, actually every position cuts very well. Bridge pickup is nice and punch but not too trebly. When I gig with this guitar it didn't feedback at gig volume. It wasn't until I turn up the volume on my twin reverb to 5 it started to feedback and 5 on a twin is super loud! I play in a R&B, funk, and blues band and this guitar was able to give my the crystal clean sound with some chime I needed to get funky! It even handle distortion well a gig volumes. If you thinking about getting this guitar get it!

Musical Background:

Playing music for 12 years. I play guitar, bass and keyboard. I played professionally for 6 years

Musical Style:

R&B, funk, blues, jazz, rock, and gospel
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