ok i hve had some real heavy runins in the past 2 years with ibanez.

first of ibanez have always managed to get a good side of the market and make darn good gutars for that market shreading metal being one of them. i own sevral ibanez guitars the one in question is a s series 520ex.

nice guitar brilliant for modding especially if you want to scalop the lower 17 - 22 frets amazing peice of kit even if you have it moded for a radius change brilliant.

but has anyone tried to get parts from ibanez or even tried to get support for the product.

fast shreding on these guitars is allot better than trying to do it on a lespaul as i have seen posted around the forum. les paul is nice but as roumer says and is correct there heavy and chunky. i own one of those too. again anouther great guitar not for 200bpm+ shreading though and neither is an ibanez for that speed in shreading. ibanez fall apart at the seams especially the standard one cant coment on the sig series or even the prestige but standard rg and s series are freted very bad in comparison to a dean guitar.

i played a dean for a few years never really owned one my self that i could call my own and i think its time i did looking at the build qualaty of a ibanez at less than 1000 quid. ibanez are forcing people to spend big money to get the quality from what it seems to me but my 520 my 470 and my rg all develop fret problems after a couple of years and when i say fret problems i mean frets come of the fret board and you can see twisted frets assembled from a roll which is mass produced. great when new.

saying that i had an old dxqm ibanez and that is perfect but that was a 2001 model so something has changed in there guitars.

shreaders guitar has to be a dean i am sorry but dean guitars are a metal ruler at the moment especially in my book i have friends using them every 3 days giging and they ust keep going and going and sound great and play soooooo smoth when playing lightning fast.

i think ibanez have lost the edge and are falling out of date with the shreading idea but as for fast finger picking and satch, vai playing they are still right on the ball with the best guitar.

maybe that is what ibanez as a buisiness want i dont know. but i am sick to deth of there pushy attitude in you want the sound you gotta pay big. we are not all famous down here.

never the less ibanez allow that massive modifictaion area. they make sure there is that extra bit of material on there product so you can repair and mod it a bit like kawasaki motorcycles really lol. i cant say dean guitars are the same but then again why the hell would you want to mod a dean anyway there amazing in the first place.

so that is my fortunate and unfortunate experience with ibanez. maybe some guitars are just gonna be bad and others good i think that is sometimes the way it goes.

shreadon
peace

The weigth is the price you pay for that amazing Les Paul sound. I just love the sound they make, I just don't care how heavy it is.

It depends on the style you want to play, really, in my opinion.

for shredding, I would say the Ibanez wins. In my book anyways.