Never owned or purchased an Ibanez before but after playing one of these I was amazed at the level of quality at this price point. Could you buy a Gibson Hollow Body that sounds better? Yes, but be prepared to open up your bank account, I don't think that anything else out there touches this guitar at this price. The Good: It's appearance is striking, absolutely beautiful guitar with Bubinga top, back and sides. Hard to say that they skimped on anything. The craftsmanship is well above average. The binding is superb the inlay looks great. The neck is perfect. The rosewood bridge is well fitted to the instrument. Instrument came from the factory well set up, a few minor intonation adjustments but other than that nothing major. The Bad: Not much. Not crazy about the factory pickups, ceramic humbuckers with decent, if very limited tonal range. Not sure why they skimped on the pickups. I demoed an Ibanez AF105, a larger guitar at the upper and lower bouts, and Ibanez put Super '58 Custom's (an alnico pickup), which are significantly better than these, think they would have been a much better choice for the AG95. I could have left the stock pickups in and been perfectly happy with the guitar but it seemed to be shortchanging the guitar a bit. I swapped them out with a set of Duncan Vintage Blues '59 and it opened up many more tonal choices, pretty cheap upgrade with huge payback. Guess if I really wanted to split hairs they could have added split coil options, but that is a pretty… read more easy upgrade anyway. Overall at the price I paid, feels like a huge steal. Played a lot of guitars and it is rare that you see one in this price range that legitimately outperforms guitars selling for more than 3X this price. A true hollow body, solid wood guitar that plays great the day you take it out of the box, pretty rare.

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