There is a stress crack on the back of the neck.
#Ibanez ex series guitars full
Our tech did a full set up and restrung this guitar with new strings. This is a used instrument and does show some signs of slight use, but has been fully tested and functions as expected. Topped off with gold hardware, pearloid triangle inlays and a Cherry Sunburst finish, which perfectly accents the grains in the flame Maple top, this machine is ready for the big time!īonus! Keep this bad boy safe with the included gig bag! Keeping you in tune and ready to dive, riff, rip and roar are the Ibanez low-profile TRS tremolo system licensed by Floyd Rose and the Ibanez tuners, so you can focus on rocking instead of retuning every few minutes. Loaded with Ibanez's American-Designed XH pickups, humbucker in the bridge and neck with a single-coil pickup in the middle, this machine can dial in the perfect tones from clear cleans to full-on blazing metal with the 5-way selector switch and the volume and tone controls. Super fast neck sports a 22 fret Rosewood fretboard with a 12" radius and a 25.5" scale, all of which affords an ease of playability whether you're shredding, riffing, palm muting or switching between pick and finger styles. This 1992 EX370FM features a Basswood body with a flame Maple top, a bolt-on Maple neck with a Rosewood fretboard and loaded with dual humbuckers and a single-coil pickup in the middle, this shred-machine is ready to take on anything that can be throw at it. Introduced in the early 90's, Ibanez's EX Series - short for EXperimental - was brought meant for the player who needed an affordable alternative to the high priced Japanese made models without sacrificing appointments and quality. We care about the instrument we put into your hands! Rest assured your guitar was not just plucked off of a shelf and drop-shipped to you from a warehouse without care. This process takes over an hour for each instrument - from inspection to pictures. We know that details like wood grain and color finishes can vary, so we want you to be able to see, to the best of our ability, exactly what you will be receiving. We then photograph each instrument with high-quality equipment in our on-site photography studio. Each instrument goes through a multi-point inspection, followed by a set-up process by our in-house tech staff. It's a very solid guitar, assuming you don't get a bad one.The guitar pictured is the actual guitar you will receive!Īt The Farm, we take actual pictures of each instrument and make sure they are fully set-up and ready to play before we ship them.
Definitely inspect the RG3 carefully and make sure the neck isn't warped and that the frets are nice and level. The workmanship on these newer budget guitars is honestly really nice and it plays great. I own a model very similar to the RG3 (basically an Indonesian, fixed bridge, basswood RG) and have been extremely impressed with it. If you want a fixed bridge, the RG3 is going to have a simpler setup to work with. Not sure which kind this one is in particular. And some of Ibanez's tremolo systems are definitely liked more than others. Keep in mind too that the EX has a tremolo, which at this point has probably seen a lot of wear and tear. Some of the newer budget RGs already come with a 5-way switch for some cool sounds too, though the RG3 might be a 3-way.
You can always get a push-pull tone pot to get series parallel on your neck humbucker for a single-coil sound, not a very expensive mod. From what I have seen, people see the v7/v8 pickups as an improvement. (And many would argue that manufacturing in the budget lines especially has improved a lot in that time.) Sure, you have a single coil middle, but the pickups look like the INF pickups, which are not very liked if you look around. A non-MIJ budget RG today (which is basically what this was 20 years ago) costs $300 new. So you're looking at a ~20 year old budget model RG made in Korea, for $245.
They presumably were named differently to prevent them from possibly hurting the reputation of the RG name, although some markets already did have some Korean made RG models." The EX (short for "Experimental") models were RG-like guitars produced in Korea instead of Japan as a more affordable alternative. "The Ibanez EX series is a series of electric guitars produced by Hoshino Gakki, first introduced in 1988. Here's what the Ibanez wiki says on the EX series: