Friday, April 9, 2021

JS?


Someone's selling this Ibanez JS in the after-market.

This is how a JS looks like. Seen here is the JS100.


I tried to clarify & this was the reply.


Let's look at the disturbing details:
  1. Cutaways. These look wrong from the start. From the pic itself, we note that the edges are not rounded off like the JS design.
  2. Neck. Re-look at the first pic & then this one - noticed the seller had swapped necks. The first one features a 24-fret neck with no JS inlay, this one has it. However, if you look at the JS100 closely, for the discontinued 22-fret version, there's a gap between the fretboard & the neck pickup but this one has none. 
  3. Alignment. Bridge pickup is slanted. Volume & tone controls are in a straight line which is not the case as seen in the JS100 above.

Then again folks, let's give credit to the fact that it's a Santriani model, not Satriani. It's as original as it gets so it's $400 to the good. 

EDIT: Thanks to bro Hotaru for pointing out that all necks featured here are 22-fretted, not 24. It must be the chemo meds. I'm leaving the entry as it is.
On the way home today, I asked a friend to take a second look at this guitar. For $400, does the Santriani model actually have a genuine neck at least (consolation, perhaps). He highlighted some misalignments as indicated above (Right - JS100 headstock for comparison). Even the strings do not travel straight to the posts. Hmm...

4 comments:

Hotaru said...

All pictures u post here seems to have 22 fret and js inlay, be it the black or red one. Which pic has 24 fret and which pic has no js inlay that u state in ur point no 2, i dont see any.

subversion.sg said...

Thanks for the pointers, will amend soon 👌

Hotaru said...

Ur welcome. I love all ur posts and always read slowly to understand cos its good info. 😁

May u be healthy soon my friend 👍

subversion.sg said...

Grateful for your well-wishes & prayers - thank you 🙏🏼 I'm still undergoing chemo...