Description

• The Artist guitar series by Ibanez has been a rock legend since the 70’s, and after over 25 years, it’s still going strong. The AR520 is a classic series model, with absolutely professional features and an outstanding price-quality relation.
• Finish: Highgloss Black, with gold hardware and abalone bindings overall (body, neck and headstock).
• Body: Okoume, with maple top & back.
• Neck: « AR », maple, 3-piece. Set neck construction – this enables a very good sustain, an easy access to the upper frets, and of course a full, « fat » tone.
• Scale: 24.75″ (like Gibson Les Paul, SG, Explorer etc., i.e. a 2 cm shorter scale than for instance a Stratocaster, resulting in better playability even with thicker string gauges).
• Fretboard: Jatoba, with pearl/abalone block inlays – a very classy looking instrument!
• Frets: 22, medium – with a perfect fretjob, another famous feature of Ibanez instruments.
• Nut: 43 mm.
• Headstock: Ibanez Artist-style. – highgloss black.
• Bridge: Non-tremolo, Ibanez ART-1 bridge and Ibanez Quik Change Classic tailpiece.
• Pickups: 2x Ibanez Super 58 Custom humbuckers (bridge and neck) – for a wide array of classic vintage sounds as well as modern tones.
• Electronics: 2x volume, 2x tone control, 3-way toggle switch, 2x mini-switches for the original Ibanez Tri-Sound switching system (standard humbucking, single coil or parallel humbucking sounds) – combined with the regular pickup selector, 15 different settings are available!
• Excellent quality of selected woods, craftsmanship, handling and sound!