I currently own a dean razorback v, the type that is black with silver bevels. I replaced the nut and saddles with titanium parts from Hantug. plus I changed the pickups to blackouts
You're a lucky, *_lucky_* metal dude then aren't you? I've got an Ibanez Destroyer, with the pickups swapped out for EMGs and one of the Ibanez RGD baritones. Two basses too, but that's not what we're talking about here... Pointy guitars rule. --S
Stickie Dmin damn right, pointy guitars are the best part of being a metal guitarist. if you're willing to spend the money and have a guitar with a floyd, I highly suggest getting the full floyd rose set from hantug. The titanium will give you great sustain and clean tones without killing the low end
I suppose the guitar that I'm thinking of isn't weird enough to be on this list, but the Ibanez RG 'Extreme Shredding Machine'. I remember it being on sale on the website years ago as a limited offer or something, because they only made so many, but the guitar quickly disappeared off the website because even 'extreme' shredders were thinking "wait ... what? ... WHY THE FUCK WOULD I NEED 30 FRETS?!". It also had a cut-away into it's body so big that the first humbucker pickup had been removed and replaced with a built-in "pickup simulator" to make room for the cut-away. Does anyone else remember that thing they made, or am I just crazy?
Wow, I didn't know about the Washburn EC36, but I have to admit that it looks sick with that crackle finish. After looking it up on google images I'm wondering whether that is the most frets ever seen on a commercially produced electric guitar or not? I know that there are some 40 fret basses out there, but I think a 40 fret guitar would just be unplayable at the higher end of the fretboard. Was there any guitar company that went higher than 36 frets?
I found a Ibanez XING 2010 on craiglist a few years ago, picked it up for $100. Pretty cool, tones of sustain because of the custom bridge (big chunk of metal) and ebony fretboard was nice. Didnt have the midi thing for it, but pretty cool as a regular guitar. I left it at my place when I moved out and since havent been able to get it back.
You know what?!? YOU KNOW WHAT?!? I am going to publicly declare this: I. LOVE. MY. IBANEZ. RGKP6. Okay?!? I mean, yes, it's a weird guitar, it's a very weird guitar, it's not my #1, but it's COOL. It's not just for Musers, either...maybe MOSTLY for Musers, but, y'know...Actually, don't let the design fool you--you can do a lot with it, beyond making Bellamy noises. :D
In 2015 people only complained about the Gibson guitars because they "innovated" all the models, there is a lot of new and weird stuff in 2017 Gibson lineup but not everything so nobody seems to care.
Man made materials for fretboards, robotic tuners, crazy looking guitars with built in effects, reintroducing the zero fret, PCB mounted components. All innovations that leave everyone complaining they just want les Paul traditionals
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I had the honor of working with Robert Hecker from Redd Kross. He had a prototype Ibanez signature model with his name on the headstock. He declined the endorsement making it a one-of-a-kind model. Maybe not weird enough for this list but very unique!
I own a '91 RBM-1 Voyager and that thing is a monster. I got it used for $400 about 15 years ago and got done restoring it earlier this year. Absolutely love it!
I've got a 1979 Ibanez Iceman with the Butterfly pickups (huge winding single coil) and a Bigsby Palm Pedal. Why? The Butterfly pickups came from the pedal-steel universe, and man are they hot!
and the Ibanez 540p II power, the unofficial Alex Skolnik model. i have three of those bad girls. you can see one of them on my black horse rising vids or testaments "the ballad" vid.
Funny I found this and skipped right to the DNA guitar as I'm in the process of making a 7 string iceman clone stained entirely with my own blood. Clear coated, of course, for sanitary reasons :D
I had the privilege to see Tim skold of at then time "mdfmk" Fame play the "Gr-707"🎸 from Roland. It was Fucking badass! it was their last show at the Fillmore in San Francisco.
the blood wasn't Vai's idea... Ibanez approached him on it. He's quoted saying he thought the idea was "macabre" but went along with it. There's an interview where he talks all about it.
I thought that Ibanez Phoenix guitar that Robert Sarzo used in a Hurricane video was one of the weirdest and coolest guitars I have seen. A notch below the Vai heart guitar. What about that one? What do you think? It is wild.
The list should include the Satriani Silver Surfer, that one was out there. But the weirdest of all, though never released, had to be the Devo guitar, body shaped and painted to look like a potato
before i even watched the video, the first thing that came to my mind with weird ibanez guitars was 'reb beach' ...and btw, he also had a red signature (explorer type) which was amazing but unfortunately he sold it during his downward times (drugs era), a lucky guy from europe has it now, i believe there was only 3 of those red guitars... the graphics on those reb beach explorers also looks amazing, reminds me of the john petrucci signature ibanez days
The Ibanez with the Kork KAOS PAD is really fun to play around with. And awesome for the money. Joey Jordison( iam german may be wrong spelled) has his blood in his sig. sticks printings as well....Thats dedication.
Another weird one, imo, is the 540pii's. They looked ridiculous, but damn, i want one, as they scream Mosrite to me so hard, and for me, any guitar that screams Mosrite makes me happy.
Sheesh... I thought you were going to feature production models and you finish it off with a one-off. Might as well as thrown in the Paul Gilbert Iba-phone.
honestly the weirdest thing I personally think ibanez has released is the SRC6. Yes, one could argue that Fender beat them to the punch decades ago with the Bass VI... but while both use the same tuning and scale, I feel both were aiming for VERY different executions, and the Ibanez version is all kinds of weird. I want one.
I wonder why he left the 76-lb., all-brass Artist Model 2622 that Ibanez built for the NAMM show in the late 70s off this list? Since Vai's heart-shaped triplenecks were obviously custom builds and not production instruments, I should think that would have a place here! People who are curious can check it out here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-oPCZkPXV3UU.html
I've got a Ibanez Voyager or RBM-1! :)I've been playing this guitar for over 20 years now. The only thing i've replaced the Floyd Rose because it broke down.
