Anyone help me with Ibanez RG Prestige range?

[wahwah]

At the gig I did with Unchained last night, I broke a string on my Wolfgang (same place as always...just where the string clamps onto the bridge section) and 2 on my Squier, leaving me with a Kramer that I only ever use on Jump as I can't get the hang of the neck. What it's made me realise is I NEED another guitar with a good trem so I went to my local and had a look. I was loathe to try Ibanez as I'd bought an RG 470 a coupla years ago and after one tap on the body, the paintwork started peeling away...I wasn't impressed. However, a range of 'Prestige' RG's was on display all around the £799 ($1000) mark but way beyond what I can afford. There was one tho' that was pure white with a pearloid sratchplate and S70 and S80 pickups instead of the Ibanez/Di Marzio ones on the other Prestige ones. This guitar was only £499 (I can haggle to £400) and was still made in Japan with a Wizard neck etc but I don't get why there's a price difference. If the pickups are like those 'Duncan Designed (which I think are awful), then I'd rather the very powerful Ibanez ones anyway. I loved the neck-fast as fook-and the sound was very powerful. Any of you guys know what the story is with this one being cheaper but still a prestige? The Ibanez website has nothing on it at all but it looks like a white version of the one I've attached. The good thing is, it'll stripe up nicely! [img]images/smilies/icon_lol.gif[/img]

[classalpha]

Hello Chris. I dunno I never heard of them, but they look like a knock off of the Vai Universe. [img]images/smilies/headscratch.gif[/img] I suppose they're just as good as any run of the mill Ibanez... you know thin/flat neck, basswood body the like. [img]images/smilies/afro.gif[/img]

Maybe with some Evolution p/ups it'd be near the same fiddle as the Universe, but without the alder body and ebony fretboard of course. I did find a review page on Harmony Central you may want to check out first though.

http://www.harmony-central.com/Guita...RG1550-01.html

Good luck. [img]images/smilies/icon_jam.gif[/img]

[wahwah]

Thanks man...apreciated. The thing is that for me the neck is everything; I could do stuff on this guitar having just picked it up that would take me some warm-up time on my own guitars. Everything else can be changed or adapted but the neck is where it's at for me. [img]images/smilies/icon_thumb.gif[/img]

[classalpha]

No problemo Chris! I Hope you get the guitar or something similar that suits youse! [img]images/smilies/icon_cool.gif[/img]

I remember playing that Loch Ness Green Jem7 when it first came out. We got a couple at Guitar Center when I worked there. The neck was a darker-toned maple w/pyramid inlays and it felt damn nice. The newer Jems and RG series don't have the same look or feel to the neck as the old Green or Pink Jems though... I wonder why they changed it. [img]images/smilies/headscratch.gif[/img]

[mab8485]

I love the neck on my 89 rg. Id imagine a better player would be able to shred on it [img]images/smilies/icon_jam.gif[/img]

[wahwah]

Well all I gotta do now is sell a Yamaha SY85 and a KorgDT1000 rack tuner to finance it. E-Bay here we come!

[atimmons]

I have a RG 3120X Prestige, and it really rocks!

[wahwah]

Thanks man...this one was a joy to play...and I can stripe it like Eddies first on VH 1! [img]images/smilies/icon_lol.gif[/img]

[Jedi McFly5150]

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...and I can stripe it like Eddies first on VH 1! [img]images/smilies/icon_lol.gif[/img]

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[atimmons]

hehehhe, great image!

[wahwah]

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...and I can stripe it like Eddies first on VH 1! [img]images/smilies/icon_lol.gif[/img]

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Fuck thats awesome. Thanks man! [img]images/smilies/icon_lol.gif[/img][img]images/smilies/icon_thumb.gif[/img]

[Mondy]

Do a better job than you did on the Kramer !!!

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