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Here's my new baby, a brand new, mint, unplayed 1999 Ibanez Andy Timmons AT-100SB!
This is one of the original run of about 170 pieces made by the Ibanez Custom Shop back in 1999, and it is similar, yet different, to the current AT-100CL reissue which I think came out in 2009.
Well, let me start by saying that this guitar is truly in NOS, unplayed condition. There are no signs that it was ever even strummed, not even the faintest pickguard scratch, and it even has the original set of - get this - factory fresh guitar strings!
Condition aside, it is truly a bomb of a guitar: great looks, lightweight, the most comfortable neck I've ever played on, perhaps with the exception of a couple of original Charvel San Dimas, and it sounds absolutely superb, clean and with gain, and with great acoustic resonance.
I had been looking for a while for this guitar, and while I did find a couple of original ones in decent shape, when the opportunity came to buy basically a brand new AT-100 from 1999 I just couldn't pass it.
In my opinion the original AT-100 is the best signature guitar Ibanez ever made, and I've had quite a few of their high end signature models, original Jems, Universes etc.
What's also cool is that unless you really know it's a signature model, there are no cheesy name inlays or obvious features, it just looks like a stripped down, performance rock machine with very traditional looks.
Perhaps its best features are the tone, which is incredibly resonant and responsive, for lack of better words, and the neck, a very soft V shape, with heavily rolled fingerboard edges, unfinished, with immaculate fretwork, that feels like the best ever 50s Strat neck.
I took some pics for your viewing pleasure, the color came out wrong, in person it looks more like a true 50s two-tone burst, very classy:
This is one of the original run of about 170 pieces made by the Ibanez Custom Shop back in 1999, and it is similar, yet different, to the current AT-100CL reissue which I think came out in 2009.
Well, let me start by saying that this guitar is truly in NOS, unplayed condition. There are no signs that it was ever even strummed, not even the faintest pickguard scratch, and it even has the original set of - get this - factory fresh guitar strings!
Condition aside, it is truly a bomb of a guitar: great looks, lightweight, the most comfortable neck I've ever played on, perhaps with the exception of a couple of original Charvel San Dimas, and it sounds absolutely superb, clean and with gain, and with great acoustic resonance.
I had been looking for a while for this guitar, and while I did find a couple of original ones in decent shape, when the opportunity came to buy basically a brand new AT-100 from 1999 I just couldn't pass it.
In my opinion the original AT-100 is the best signature guitar Ibanez ever made, and I've had quite a few of their high end signature models, original Jems, Universes etc.
What's also cool is that unless you really know it's a signature model, there are no cheesy name inlays or obvious features, it just looks like a stripped down, performance rock machine with very traditional looks.
Perhaps its best features are the tone, which is incredibly resonant and responsive, for lack of better words, and the neck, a very soft V shape, with heavily rolled fingerboard edges, unfinished, with immaculate fretwork, that feels like the best ever 50s Strat neck.
I took some pics for your viewing pleasure, the color came out wrong, in person it looks more like a true 50s two-tone burst, very classy:
I remember seeing those but never played one. How well does the trem stay in tune?
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