Absoulutly marvelous, already have a strat and les paul, looking for something blusey yet rocking, you found it, you cant sit and play this one.

the tremelo is killer, knobs are great the neck is killer but the p\u sel in a silly spot.

super playable just all out funn, im all wound up just talking about it.

this guitar will last a long time dont worry bout that. the tunners are just perfect, awsome.

it is right on, worth every penny. (period)

who knows

sheer beauty i got the ocean blue and its bad as hell

avtive muscian

rock blues, blues rock, rock'n'roll

I have been playing a '62 Epiphone Olympic Special for many years, and have been looking for something with a fuller tone to add to my sound. I decided to take a chance on the Artcore, and boy does this baby deliver! I can plug it straight into my Gibson GA-6 without any effects and the sounds I can get continue to amaze me. The bridge pickup is crisp and really cuts through the mix, while the neck pickup rolls out a lush, fat tone with incredible bass, making it a wonderful blues box. Plug this into a Marshall stack, crank up the gain, and it flat out rocks like a Les Paul. It's really a sound chameleon. This guitar has major mojo!

I rated this down a bit due to the already famous P/U selector switch. As previously noted, it's stuck in an unfortunate location underneath the trem bar, (but I usually swing it over the bridge anyway) and the switch knob keeps coming loose, so I'll probably replace this with a Gibson switch. This aside, the trem bar works like it should, as long as you treat it with the subtlety it's due, and the Gibsonesque speed knobs are a nice touch.

The fit and finish on the body itself is just incredible. The mirror like shine really shows off the body curves, and the binding is top notch. Ibanez chose to put most of the real quality in the guitar body itself, as it should. Let's be honest, most of us end up modifying our guitars to suit our particular tastes and needs, so the harware can be a little on the cheap side if it means making the instrument more affordable to the masses.

A full hollowbody with dual humbuckers and a vintage tremolo for under $500.00? Are you kidding? This is one of the best buys out there! Sure it's not perfect, but in over 30 years of playing, I've never found a guitar that is. But there are a lot of very nice ones out there, and this one is a gem. The sounds and features are worth far more than the price tag would suggest.

So far, I haven't had to deal with the company, so I can't opine either way.

Love at first sight! I was absentmindedly perusing through other guitars when this one jumped out and bit me. No matter what else I looked at, it just kept coming back. I think part of it was the shape, and part of it was that green. No one really kows what color this is supposed to be. Ibanez calls it turquoise, my wife calls it jadite, others call it pistachio, but pair it up with the vintage-look cream accents, and it turns heads wherever it goes.

Active Musician

Blues/Rock, Chritian Contemporary, Folk, Celtic

From Classical to all out Punk

The pickups and just the finish was amazing

The sound was great but for the smaller good luck trying to play this

Just came perfect

worth every penny

Just fine

The curves and the finish just turns you on

Bassest for a band

classic rock , old punk

it has a nice clean but blues sound to it.

the bigsby style tremlo is nice.better than those stupidfender strat tremlo units.

yeah havent had problems yet.

it is the best guitar that you can buy for under $500

dont know but there in koria so i bet it aint good. since i speak english.

its perfect.

serious hobbyist

rock and blues

This guitar sounds great, especially considering it's price. Playing it out of my vox ad60vtx i can get any sound i can imagine. Very warm and full sounding on the neck PU and sharp and crisp on the bridge. My band mates, one of which has a collection of guitars from gretsch and gibson, constantly are complimenting the tone of this guitar. A buddy of mine comes to borrow my guitar to play instead of his "better" aka more expensive SG

i love everything about this guitar, the electronics are good. the tremelo is fantastic and it feels great to play.

after initial set up and adjustment to my liking it has been perfect, checked the intonation after over a year of daily usage and numerous string changes and had to make almost no adjustment, solid guitar.

the body looks amazing and i love the color. no issues with the electronics and it has even held up to some pretty serious drops without any damage. I play this guitar everyday and it still looks as good as the day i bought it.

huge value, can't ask for a better looking, better sounding guitar.

haven't had to deal with ibanez at all, can't say

I think this guitar is beautiful, it has the classic look, but is thin enough and light enough to be played comfortably. the neck feels great and i get tons of compliments about it at shows.

active musician

rock, funk, jazz

The Ibanez is a serious contender in the Gibson 335/355 league. Easily blowing away the Epiphone Dot (its major rival) in every column, it is the sound of the Ibanez that is most bewitching. Rich, earthy blues tone at one end, and sharp, Bernard Butler-esque attack at the other.

For the money, the Ibanez cannot be beaten - no way. Example: compare this to the Epiphone Dot - it comes with a rather incredible vintage-style tremelo that, even under wild use, keeps the guitar in tune. The Epiphone seems way less of a grandson of the Gibson 335 with no standard tremelo. Beautiful finish, the use of great wood, and speedy knobs.

The tremelo is the main feature of the Ibanez, and man how it keeps in tune. Uncanny. Extremely easy to use, like the old Gretsch.

Considering the low price, the quality is exceptionally decent. Like it has been said, the company put the care and effort into the body and the tremelo to produce an amazingly inexpensive guitar for what you get.

No doubt about it, for the money this is pure value - this appears to be a universal comment

Those guitarists looking to find a new alternative to shelling out thousands on a vintage 355 (or a bit less on a 335) will be drooling when this is in their hands. It is just so much better to look at and play than the Epiphone Dot. The finish is immaculate - and you certainly do not have to be a rockibilly dude to think this is sexy.

Active Musician

alternative/indie rock