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They also often suffer from 'binding rot', especially at the cutaways. Luckily this one had all its binding intact and in relatively good condition. The locking tuners are another nice feature.
One thing I really like about these old guitars is that they all had unique hardware. Of course it makes it difficult to get replacements, but guitar manufacturers nearly all use generic parts nowadays. Like the Yamaha SG1820 - TonePros, Grover, Seymour Duncan - all quality stuff, but the old SGs with Yamaha's own hardware were much more interesting.
There's a little thumbwheel on the tuner shaft to tighten, next to the button.
My ultimate vintage Ibanez would be this, though, a 2680. There's also the 2681 'tree of life' Bob Weir model, with the vine inlay. Super cool guitars, I've only come across one in the flesh and should've bought it! Unfortunately a lot of these suffer from the dreaded binding rot, they have very thick binding in the cutaways due to the carved tops.
A friend of mine swapped me a Rush programme for that poster. I can't remember why he wanted it so much, perhaps because there was a picture of Rik Emmett with his Artist doubleneck.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/yqceg4hxlm1a35i/Casio_noflash1.jpg?raw=1
J.J. Cale used a PG-380, which is essentially the same guitar with a Floyd-like trem, although he put a HB in the neck position:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/5ahom8vgosvus5n/J.J._CALE.jpg?raw=1
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Did you do the carving yourself?
I stripped the extremely thick finish off until the stain looked like shading and then left it.
This is how they looked new:
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I've got the Antorias take on the Ibanez Artist , with the love or hate headstock .
I stumbled across the amazing quality of MIJ guitars of yesteryear by chance when I was getting back into playing guitar and a friend had a Burny Les Paul for sale at a reasonable price. He said it plays well and sounds amazing so I went for it. It was a early 90's Burny Les Paul Joe Perry signature copy, black flame top with a white pick guard. I sold this to fund another guitar.
Over the last 10 years I've built up a nice collection of these guitars from 70's, 80's and 90's. I'll share them over the week or so.
Guitar 1 - Burny LG75-GR "Slash" model from early 90's. I purchased this from eBay Japan and got it sent to the UK in 2001 I think?! Beautiful flame top, rosewood fingerboard and in great condition. I'm about to upgrade the pups and capacitors which I've been thinking about for a while.
:Edited with images
Pretty sure it was Japanese.
https://i.imgur.com/2JIG3f1.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/0McM77E.jpg
84 jv Jazz, owned from new, but now passed on to my son. I tried every jv Jazz on Denmark St. This was easily the best. Next to the bass it is a copy of.
https://i.imgur.com/dTMArCt.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/fRUwwH2.jpg