Ibanez Artcore AS53 Semi-hollowbody Electric Guitar - Sunburst Red Flat Reviews
Tonal versatility. These two words represent the primary reason why the Ibanez Artcore AS53 is so popular among guitarists here at Sweetwater. This instrument's robust feature set includes a sapele body comes equipped with a pair of Infinity R humbucking pickups, 3-way switching, and master volume and tone controls. The AS53 offers ear-pleasing warmth with a punchy attack that sounds great through a cranked amplifier. The scaled-down semi-hollowbody shape is perfect for solidbody players who need a semi-hollow tone without all the bulk of traditional semi-hollow designs. You also get top-notch hardware for excellent playability, solid intonation, and superb tuning stability. If you’re looking for a new workhorse guitar, the Ibanez Artcore AS53 is ready to oblige.
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Gorgeous Guitar with a Great Sound Across Blues and Rock
For this price point, you get a **** solid guitar with quality construction. It sounds great out the box and it's gorgeous. Sweetwater was GREAT!!!! Like I can't believe how close to right everything went. Does anything ever go so right. The price on the guitar…GREAT! The fact that this beautiful guitar came with a two-year warranty….55-point inspection (and the thing showed up tuned and ready to play). I would call that GREAT!! I ordered the one day delivery, and though skeptical, it showed up (meeting all conditions outlined above). This happened so fast that I had gotten an e-mail (or two), a phone call, and a follow-up by the time the guitar showed up. Zach (my engineer), I didn't even have the chance to say thank you, but please know that I thank you.
Perhaps there will be a few that would tell you to look elsewhere for a fancier-smancier hardware with a fret that you can slide across like velvet butter and swap out the pick-ups for this ultra-cool, only tried in the best setup. Something that you bought at a steal for a few hundred because it's worth a thousand, when it's done right. Spend a few hundred or some combination of trime and money and then you realize you have a used guitar that you spent twice as much on. Some of us are tinkeres and like that sort of thing. Even so, you wouldn't have the 55 point inspection or the two-year warranty….NOT SO GREAT.
If you are looking for a great guitar that will let you do everything you need for practice and playing with the guys (all I do), looks and sounds great (I don't metal or really hard rock, so I can't speak to feedback when using high gain/overdrive). This is a GREAT deal. If you are on the fence I can tell you there is no reason. I took the low threshold plunge to buy this instrument and I can't tell you just how happy I am that I did. I will be buying from Sweetwater again, and I would advise anyone in the market for a quality instrument to do the same.
Ibanez artcore guitar am73b made in china in 2005
This guitar plays really well I've owned it for a year now change strings on it twice it maintains its intonation and is a nice guitar for the price especially for blues or acoustic rock guitar always sounds in tune Cleo Dumas guitar player
