Tuesday, February 18, 2014

Ibanez: Ghost weapons



I was expecting this to happen- the Ibanez 'weapons' models (seen here T-B: Falchion/ Glaive/ Halberd) have been discontinued for 2014. The only remaining member is the Xiphos whose availability is restricted to regional distributions. Also, Mick Thompson has the Glaive under his name & hopefully it would live on in that line of production. With no firm ambassadors & very limited options, this trio of guitars was destined for the archives. Kinda sad because I see this as the manufacturer's avenue in dealing with extroverted outlines but there's simply no extended marketing for this. I believe many of us prefer to tread the BC Rich path when it comes to such designs. Treasure yours if you have them :-)

2 comments:

Ijau D. Koceng said...

even the IC/XP/DT wasn't listed this year

and yeah ART, ARZ and DN too

subversion.sg said...

iceman- yes, still in production but regional exclusive. ditto destroyer & xiphos