Tod & Krys

A December product announcement is not an Ibanez thing but this seems to be an exception. What's the hurry, we wonder. 

New this month are the pair of guitars for the Polyphia guys. This here is the TOD10, a new one for Tim Henson. Gone are the DiMarzio (Fluence replacements) pickups & alter / dyna MIX9 switching system. Also, it's an HH config this time. Fretboard is ebony with a cheeky tree of death inlay. What you don't see - push-pull voicing switch (tone knob).

The Scott LePage iteration has Fluence pickups on board as well but these are pickguard mounted. Ebony fretboard here has block markers which I find more appealing. Nope, the dynaMIX9 switch is not retained, that's a voicing toggle switch. The Krys features an ash body, Tod is a basswood.

These guitars are not radical changes for Ibanez to deal with. So costs are presumably kept in check when it comes to construction. The Fluence pickups are the major changes. Prices might just be about the same as the previous iterations but factoring in inflation & GST hikes, by the time these get here in 2023, it would cross into the $2K bracket.

Hello December 👋

Pics: Ibanez