Saturday, February 4, 2012

Ibanez: AFJ81

The AFJ81 is new this year. It's a simple guitar, the more I look at it, the more attracted I am to this instrument. Wonderful. 

Ibanez's Artcore J-series are supposedly meant for jazz applications; the reason why the bridges on all 3 models in this group are non-metal units. This is to enhance the smooth top end- remember, it's jazz, angular treble shouldn't mar the genre's aesthetics. However, jazz cats everywhere are doing fine with metal bridges so this consideration is really the manufacturer's swing at differentiating the instruments from their peers.