Searching an Ibanez

[Nagash02]

I'm looking for a black metal guitar. My definition would be super thin neck, which brings me to Ibanez, single pickup (bridge humbucker), fixed bridge.

I found the RG2610E, which has the neck and the single pickup, but it has a trem. Anyone here knows about a guitar that would fit into my description ? It doesn't HAVE to be an Ibanez...

Thnaks !

[ralph]

RR24 with blocked trem

[jackson1]

Jackson Kevin Bond Signature Rhoads. Not Ibanez wizard thin neck, but everything else is spot on (metal, one hum, black, fixed AND adjustable bridge). Did I say metal? Did I say mahogany? Did I say 3-piece neck-thru? Did I say metal?

[Nagash02]

Thanks people, but @ ralph, I don't want a blocked trem, I want NO trem at all. A real fixed bridge. @jackson1, I've been thinking about the Kevin Bond over and over again, these inlays just have a repulsive effect on me. It's just the damn inlays. But thanks to both anyway !

[markD]

I'm looking for a black metal guitar.

@jackson1, I've been thinking about the Kevin Bond over and over again, these inlays just have a repulsive effect on me. It's just the damn inlays.

uh, if you are gonna play black metal wouldn't pentagram inlays be right up your alley???

[jackson1]

...these inlays just have a repulsive effect on me. It's just the damn inlays.

Have you taken your time and read about the symbol? It might change your mind. There is no goat in the center of the Bond Rhoads inlay. And it is not pointing in any particular direction:



From Wiki:
Neopaganism


A typical Neopagan pentagram (circumscribed).


Many Neopagans, especially Wiccans, use the pentagram as a symbol of faith similar to the Christian cross or the Jewish Star of David. It is not, however, a universal symbol for Neopaganism, and is rarely used by Reconstructionists. Its religious symbolism is commonly explained by reference to the neo-Pythagorean understanding that the five vertices of the pentagram represent the four elements with the addition of Spirit as the uppermost point. As a representation of the elements, the pentagram is involved in the Wiccan practice of summoning the elemental spirits of the four directions at the beginning of a ritual.
The outer circle of the circumscribed pentagram is sometimes interpreted as binding the elements together or bringing them into harmony with each other. The Neopagan pentagram is generally displayed with one point up, partly because of the "inverted" goat's head pentagram's association with Satanism; however, within traditional forms of Wicca a pentagram with two points up is associated with the Second Degree Initiation and in this context has no relation to Satanism.[25]
Because of a perceived association with Satanism and also because of negative societal attitudes towards Neopagan religions and the "occult", many United States schools have sought to prevent students from displaying the pentagram on clothing or jewelry.[26][27][28] In public schools, such actions by administrators have been determined to be in violation of students' First Amendment right to free exercise of religion.[29]
The circle around a pentagram (transforming it in to a pentacle) is a symbol of "unity, wholeness, infinity, the goddess, and protection. To earth-centered religions throughout history as well as to many contemporary pagans, it represents the feminine spirit or force, the cosmos or a spiritualism Mother Earth, and a sacred space." The five-pointed star is representative of the four primal elements (earth, air, fire and water,) and traditionally a fifth, called spirit. The circle binds them together to create life. When pointing up, the pentagram can represent spirituality's dominance over the material (pentagram) bound inside the laws of the cosmos (circle). The upside-down facing pentagram, meanwhile, represents the physical world ruling over the spiritual, and has therefore been associated with dark magic. Other sources point to its origin in Chinese five-element philosophy (see feng shui), as the natural balance between fire, water, earth, wood, and metal. This theory states that the direction it is pointing has nothing to do with good or evil, but rather the upside-down facing circle is for banishing. The circle is again for the concept the power within is bound by, this time for the circle of life.[30]

[DonP]

Thanks people, but @ ralph, I don't want a blocked trem, I want NO trem at all. A real fixed bridge. @jackson1, I've been thinking about the Kevin Bond over and over again, these inlays just have a repulsive effect on me. It's just the damn inlays. But thanks to both anyway !

I think we need to take away your metal Man Card

[Devotee]

Just because it's not a sigil of Baphomet doesn't mean its a Pagan symbol. The inlays in question are inverted pentagrams rotated clockwise a bit so that when you hold the guitar standing up they're pointed the right way
I think the second guitarist from Weapon (Canadian Black/Death Metal band) uses a Kevin Bond RR as well.

[j2379]

hello kitty strat, now thats Fn METAL!

[Nagash02]

Pfffffffffffffffffff

I have nothign against pentagrams, I need no schooling about paganism or satanism, I'm pretty well informed about all that. It's just that IMO pentagram inlays look stupid. When I say "Black Metal guitar", it's just speaking about the playability, I won't be playing this with spikes and white make-up anyway. I appreciate the input, but it's not what I'm looking for. A simple guitar, maybe not flashy yellow or so, but nothing too extreme. I'd have taken a BC Rich if I had wanted that...

I'm complicated, I know. Sorry all

[Grim]

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EDIT : Same Run Better price

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[jackson1]

It's just that IMO pentagram inlays look stupid.

If you had written "stupid" the first time around, instead of "repulsive", I sure wouldn't have bothered digging up info about the pentagram. Waste of my time.

[tcwil8]

If you had written "stupid" the first time around, instead of "repulsive", I sure wouldn't have bothered digging up info about the pentagram. Waste of my time.

I found it to be very informative and appreciate the effort. Not a waste IMO.

[toejam]

uh, if you are gonna play black metal wouldn't pentagram inlays be right up your alley???

He didn't say he was going to PLAY black metal. He said he's looking for a black metal guitar. How about one of these, just paint it black?
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[Hellbat]

hello kitty strat, now thats Fn METAL!

You rang?