History of Ibanez Guitars

Ibanez is probably one of the Japanese guitar maker best known. Ibanez guitar company was founded in Nagoya, Japan in 1957 as a subsidiary of Hoshino Gakki, a Japanese musical instrument importer which started Ibanez to create its own models.

1st dstroyer model

Ibanez originally made ​​copies of American designs. Early models include the 2364, a copy of the famous Ampeg Dan Armstrong guitar made ​​of clear plastic. Guitar the 2347 is a duplicate of the 2351 are very similar to the Gibson Les Paul models, and model 2348 is an almost perfect duplicate of the model of non-reverse Gibson Firebird. Copy the successful model variant created by Ibanez guitars so well is almost comparable to the original model, and this makes gibson guitar company Ibanez company to sue for copyright infringement in 1977. But strangely, the lawsuit was not directed at the design agency of Ibanez design similar to Gibson, but devoted to the design of the Ibanez headstock and then resolved in court in 1978. This is spurring companies to introduce ibanes guitar Ibanez's design itself.

Ibanez Rg Series

Some of the design is "the destroyer", the design of this model is similar to the design of Gibson exlporer with additional forms and Ibanez's classic pointed headstock. Model "the artist" uses a more traditional shape with two short cutaways of equal size and changes in the headstock to avoid copyright issues. Model "the rocket roll" a copy of the Gibson Flying V guitars, but Ibanez uses "pointed headstock" and without "scratchplate". While the model of "The Iceman" has a design model of a unique and unusual. Using the model of Gibson Explorer with a "cut-down-left-hand side, a unique notch at the base and large cutaway right hand horn that allows access to the higher frets. In the first model of "the destroyer" is available with two or three humbucking pickups, "the artist" only with two humbucking pickups, and "The Iceman" with two humbuckers or an Ibanez-designed pickup with three coils. Model "The Iceman" and the model of "the artist" is still in Ibanez's lineup until 2008.

The main line of "superstrat" is modeled on Ibanez 'RG'. This guitar was first introduced in 1985 and then put together by "the saber" with the same shape, but with a less pointed horns, and a very thin body, probably the thinnest guitar ever produced. In the late 1980s Ibanez collaborated with talented guitarist Steve Vai who had previously joined Whitesnake, David Lee Roth's solo band, and his own Solo. Steve Vai has lost his favorite custom guitars "Charvel Guitar" stolen. So he needed a new guitar. Steve Vai and Ibanez managed superstrat design with 24 frets, the aforementioned pickup configuration and a grab handle on the body known by Vai as the Monkey Grip. He also designed and ibanez guitar with 7 strings called "The Universe".

Joe.S & Ibanez Js Series

Another artist who has worked with Ibanez and release of historical models including Paul Gilbert PGM signature model, Joe Satriani, with the JS signature, Herman Li and Sam Totman by E-Gen and STM models, as well as Apex Munky signature model.