Ibanez ART100 Review – Quality on a Budget?
March 2nd, 2010 at 21:13In the 1970’s, Ibanez got into serious legal trouble with their copy of a Gibson Les Paul. Probably the biggest reason Gibson got upset with Ibanez is that by many accounts the Ibanez copy was, at the time, a far better instrument than the real thing!
With the ART100, Ibanez proves that they can still make a killer single cutaway guitar at a great price. Let’s take a look at the details.
The ART100 is a set neck guitar with mahogany body and neck. It has a 22 fret rosewood fingerboard and a tune-o-matic style bridge and tailpiece. Pickups are an Ibanez Artcore 1-S for the neck and an Artcore 2-S for the bridge.
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With a street price of around $300, there’s just not much to love about the Ibanez ART100. Like most Ibanez guitars, the action is as playable as you want. The feel is definitely different from the Wizard-neck equipped guitars, but not in an inferior way. Just different.
We chose the Heritage Cherry finish and were very pleased with it. We found no discernible flaws in the finish. The guitar has no inlays with the exception of a custom inlay on the 12th fret. A classy look, in our opinion, especially for a $300 guitar.
Regarding the sounds, the strengths are certainly the distorted and overdriven tones, though the clean sounds are certainly passable.
The stock pickups do a fine job, but if you want some different sounds, you could always swap out the stock pickups for some replacements.
We wish the guitar had come with a case, but what do you want for $300? Overall, it’s a fine budget guitar that doesn’t sound or play like a budget guitar. We highly recommend it.
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