Ibanez RGIR28BFE Iron Label Electric Guitar, 8-String

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With a Spartan mahogany body, this 8-string Ibanez is fully capable of delivering gritty, super heavy rhythms, especially with its EMG-808 active humbuckers.

What's special about this item?

Feature: What it does:
Mahogany body Rich, warm, focused sound; added sustain
Nitro Wizard-8 neck Fast and easy-to-play neck that doesn't feel wide
Rosewood fretboard Open, warm tone and smooth playing feel
EMG 808 pickups Punchy and defined tone

How do you make a heavy metal guitar even more raw? Add a string. Already got seven strings? Try eight. With the Ibanez RGIR28BFE Iron Label electric guitar, one of the best metal machines on the market gets a bit lower, with a mind-blowing 8th string. Throw in a solid mahogany body, EMG active humbuckers, and you've found the recipe for one wicked axe.

Heavy Metal Heritage

Ibanez RG electric guitars have decades of heavy metal street cred. If you're looking to crack some skulls at your next head-banger, try adding the raw depth of an eighth string to your scales. Dual EMG 808 humbucking pickups -- the first production 8-string pickups ever made -- add that rich fullness to riffs that metalheads crave. In addition to the standard volume knob and 3-way selector switch, the RGIR28BFE is equipped with a kill switch that's not only useful for taming a runaway effects loop, but can be utilized for a stunning strobe-like effect too.

One Heck of a Neck

Designing a 27" scale neck for an 8-string electric guitar is no simple task, but that's exactly what Ibanez has achieved with the Nitro Wizard-8 five-piece maple and walnut neck. While understandably wider than your typical lesser-stringed model, the RGIR28BFE's neck is thin and sports a large 15.75" fingerboard radius so it's comfortable to play, despite its size in the upper octave. It's also got a sleek polyurethane finish to reduce friction as you're blazing up and down eight strings of glory. And it's reinforced with read more a titanium truss rod, so can pitch-bend with a brick and it won't bend the neck -- though of course you'd never do that to your 24 unmarked jumbo frets and rosewood fingerboard.

Features:

- Eight-string electric guitar
- Dual EMG 808 humbucking pickups
- Contoured RG-style mahogany body
- Five-piece Nitro Wizard-8 maple and walnut neck with polyurethane finish and titanium truss rod
- 27" scale rosewood fingerboard with 24 unmarked jumbo frets and 15.75" radius
- Volume knob, 3-way pickup selector switch, and kill switch
- Gibraltar Standard-8 bridge
- Traditional RG-style floating tremolo
- String gauge: .009/.011/.016/.024/.032/.042/.054/.065
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- Scale: 27"
- Neck: 5-piece Maple/ Walnut "Nitro Wizard 8"
- Body: Mahogany
- Fingerboard: Rosewood
- Frets: Jumbo
- Neck Pickup: EMG 808 (H)
- Bridge Pickup: EMG 808 (H)
- Bridge: Gibraltar Standard II-8
- Hardware: Black
- Kill Switch: Equipped
- Factory Tuning: (from 1st to 8th) 1D#, 2A#, 3F#, 4C#, 5G#, 6D#, 7A#, 8F

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

Ibanez RGIR28BFE Iron Label Guitar

As the legion of converts to the "made-for-metal" Iron Label series continues to grow, Ibanez continues to tap the seismic underworld for inspiration. Working their famous RG from the "chassis" up, Ibanez speaks to the flash and fury of the frantic shredder with the Ibanez RGIR28BFE.

For the metal lead guitarist that demands an instrument that is responsive and intuitive, Ibanez comes through with an Iron Label model designed to deliver on command. The RGIR28BFE's Mahogany body and EMG 808 pickups are the perfect combination to put out plenty of sonic diversity and power and come with a kill switch for some cool strobe effects that will take your solos into another dimension.

It features a durable and comfortable 27" scale 5-piece Maple/ Walnut Ibanez "Nitro Wizard 8" neck. A rosewood fingerboard and jumbo frets offer effortless fingering throughout the full length of the fingerboard. Designed for stability and sustain, the rock-solid Gibraltar Standard II-8 bridge is ready to handle the most extreme string bends as well as the most aggressive rhythm techniques. And the walnut flat finish allows the natural markings of the wood grain to emerge through for a dramatic, earthy effect. With the purposefully Spartan "made-for-metal" Iron Label, you won't find a feature here that doesn't contribute directly to waking the dead.

Features:

- Mahogany body
- 5-piece maple/ walnut "Nitro Wizard 8" neck
- Rosewood fingerboard
- Jumbo frets
- Walnut flat finish
- Kill switch equipped
- EMG 808 pickups

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