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The Ibanez Artcore Custom AS103 is a semi-acoustic electric guitar that features an all-flame Maple body, 2 Ibanez Custom 58 humbucking pickups, and the new fine-tuner equipped Quik Change Ultra tailpiece, which offers easier string changes. Ibanez stunned the music industry when the first Artcores were unveiled and the appearance of the Artcore Customs in 2005 seems to have had the same effect. No one would have blinked an eye if Ibanez had placed a price tag of over 2 grand on these beautiful boxes. But the Artcore Customs are less than half that. Now with a semi-acoustic model for players who want more sustain and feedback resistance to play at higher volumes, Ibanez presents a fully comprehensive series. Artcore Custom received 2 nominations by music industry retailers for the 2006 Music and Sound Awards, Electric Guitar of the Year and Product of Year. Case included.
Maybe the most traditional of the Artcores. The true full-hollow AK eschews the brighter sound of maple tops and metal bridges used in most of Artcores. In their place are a spruce top and all-wood bridge for the warmer, traditional sound favored in small group and jazz trio formats. Why make full and semi-acoustic guitars? They’ve never been as popular as the more common solid-bodies. They take more time to build. They take more time to set-up and inspect. So why has Ibanez remained fully committed over four decades to making full and semi-acoustic guitars? Because making jazz guitars - like playing jazz - is more about love than money. And Ibanez loves jazz and they love making jazz guitars. And you know, if you’ve ever played a "jazz box," that nothing else sounds or plays like one.
The AS is a semi-acoustic guitar built to tackle just about any genre of music you throw at it. The pickups are mounted into a sustain block for increased sustain and feedback elimination. The Quik Change III bridge makes it easy to change strings without a lot of time involved.
AMF is the newest model in the Artcore series. With AMF, Ibanez aims to bring the tones and looks of traditional hollow body guitars into more modern musical realms.The AMF body is flat-top and slender with semi-hollow construction, offering a bit more solid rock feel, yet warmer tone than a solid electric guitar.
The AF is the most traditional of the Artcore series. The traditional full-hollow construction means there are no sound blocks in the body.
Producing ricAMF is the newest model in the Artcore series. With AMF, Ibanez aims to bring the tones and looks of traditional hollow body guitars into more modern musical realms. and complex tones, the AF is the guitar for the purist in all of us.