This guitar is pretty awesome. First of all, the finish is really pretty. It’s called frozen ocean and depending on how the light falls on it, it does look like a frozen ocean indeed. The guitar has a nice weight to it but nowhere near too heavy and it’s not uncomfortable to play. The Super Wizard HP neck is a little bit thicker then the Wizard necks on my other Ibanez guitars. It’s noticeable for sure but not annoying in the slightest.
I am quite well known with the Fishman Fluence Modern pickups. These are still the old version so with only two voicings and not the newer ones with three voicings. It’s fine though, I have no reason to switch out the pickups (unless they give me issues like in my RG5121 thanks to idiotic wiring by Ibanez). Sonically they are just fine for me. I get very decent cleans from them (good enough for me at least) and in high gain mode they absolutely rip.
The birds eye maple fretboard is stunning and while not as nice as the birds eye maple found o custom shop guitars it is still beautiful. I also like that this trem arm stays nice and firm in the Lo Pro Edge. The arm on my RG550 always gets a bit wobble after two divebombs. So it’s very nice this one doesn’t have that issue.
On my guitar the binding goes in an upward direction by about 1 to 1,5 millimeters where the neck connects to the body. However, the neck looks like it’s screwed in tightly and correct on the body and the guitar plays absolutely fine, so I think this is just a cosmetic thing. It just looks kind of weird.
All in all I am very happy with this guitar and this is definitely a keeper. I might switch the strings to a 10-46 set as that is what I’m used to but I’ll see. I think I got the last one of the batch that they had in stock but if it ever comes back in stock (because Ibanez often does us lefties dirty) and you are on the fence about getting one of these I can fully recommend it.
