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Ibanez Steve Vai Signature PIA3761 Electric Guitar - Onyx Black

Solidbody Electric Guitar, Signature, with Alder Body, Maple/Walnut Neck, Rosewood Fingerboard, 2 Humbucking Pickups, 1 Single-coil Pickup, and Edge Tremolo - Onyx Black
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Designed in collaboration with Steve Vai, the Ibanez Steve Vai PIA3761 is a sonically versatile, high-performance solidbody electric guitar. It features a balanced-sounding alder body — the tonal basis for some of the most enduring pieces of contemporary music. Enjoy super-fast playability, courtesy of a 5-piece PIA neck with Ibanez’s Prestige fret end treatment, while DiMarzio UtoPIA pickups deliver maximum impact and power. An Edge tremolo supplies twisting, bending, and dive-bombing with reliable intonation. The PIA3761 boasts Steve Vai’s trademark appointments, including a redesigned Monkey Grip and eye-catching PIA Blossom fingerboard inlay.

Effortless playability with the fastest-playing neck in the business

One of Ibanez’s fastest necks to date, the 5-piece PIA neck on the Steve Vai PIA3761 is an absolute pleasure to play. This slim and super-comfortable neck lets you pull off lightning-fast runs and arpeggios with ease, but it still gives you the substance you need for grabbing chords when you need to. What’s more, the PIA3761 has received Ibanez's Prestige fret-end treatment. This essentially rounds off the edges of the frets, making the PIA3761's fretboard feel even more fluid. From the first time you put your hands on the PIA3761’s PIA neck, you’ll know you’ve got a guitar that was built with performance in mind.

A trio of DiMarzio UtoPIA pickups gives you massive tonal range

The HSH configuration has been a longtime favorite among tone seekers, and this preference led to the trio of killer UtoPIA pickups loaded in the Steve Vai PIA3761. The neck position humbucker is voiced for warmer, richer tone, while the bridge humbucker is a brilliant lead pickup: vibrant yet snarling with an enhanced midrange output when you push it. In between, you get a high-output single-coil that serves up traditional spank ’n’ sparkle on its own and plays nice with the humbuckers in blade positions two and four. If you’re after maximum tonal tenacity, then the PIA3761 will give your amplifier what you need.

Edge tremolo for precise tuning stability

The Steve Vai PIA3761's Edge tremolo was designed by Ibanez to give you the fast tremolo response and snap you need to pull off sharp bends and flutters. The extreme stability of this knife-edge-style trem's stud lock function is also one of the many reasons it’s a favorite among many of today's top shredders. And thanks to the Lion's Claw tremolo cavity, you can bend notes to radical extremes and back again with incredible precision.

Ibanez Steve Vai PIA3761 Solidbody Electric Guitar Features:

  • Designed in collaboration with Steve Vai for a sonically versatile guitar that performs like a pro
  • Balanced-sounding alder body — the tonal basis for some of the most enduring pieces of contemporary music
  • 5-piece PIA neck with Prestige fret end treatment plays incredibly fast
  • DiMarzio UtoPIA pickups deliver maximum impact and power
  • Edge tremolo supplies twisting, bending, and dive-bombing with reliable intonation
  • Luminlay side dots let you know where you are in the dark
  • Redesigned Monkey Grip handle elicits a yin-yang vibe
  • Eye-catching gold hardware; PIA Blossom inlay

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Tech Specs

  • General
  • Number of Strings 6
  • Left-/Right-handed Right-handed
  • Body
  • Body Type Solidbody
  • Body Shape Steve Vai Signature
  • Body Material Alder
  • Body Finish Gloss Polyurethane
  • Color Onyx Black
  • Neck
  • Neck Material 5-Piece Maple/Walnut
  • Neck Shape PIA
  • Neck Joint Bolt-on
  • Radius 16.9"
  • Fingerboard Material Rosewood
  • Fingerboard Inlay Gold/Abalone PIA Blossom
  • Number of Frets 24, Jumbo Stainless Steel
  • Scale Length 25.5"
  • Nut Width 1.692"
  • Nut Material Locking
  • Hardware
  • Bridge/Tailpiece Edge Locking Tremolo
  • Tuners Gotoh
  • Electronics
  • Neck Pickup DiMarzio UtoPIA Humbucker
  • Middle Pickup DiMarzio UtoPIA Single-coil
  • Bridge Pickup DiMarzio UtoPIA Humbucker
  • Controls 1 x master volume (push/pull high-pass filter), 1 x master tone
  • Switching 5-way blade pickup switch
  • Miscellaneous
  • Strings .009-.042
  • Case/Gig Bag Hardshell Case
  • Manufacturer Part Number: PIA3761XB

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Reviews

Rated 5/5
The Bulldog
Remember in Back To Future II when Marty is riding a Hoverboard over the water and Biff breaks out the Bulldog Hoverboard?…thats the PIA vs the Ibanez premiums
(Yes I have 2 Premiums) awesome guitars!!
But the PIA I feel like I busted out the Bulldog!
Just buy it!…WOW….
Rated 5/5
Best of them all
So I was really unsure about which guitar I wanted but I came across with the jem. I put my order down but was let down that the jem was in a back order status which I didn't know when would I receive it but one of the teach at sweet water told me that they had the pi that someone had to cancel their order due to some money problems which gave me an opportunity to change my order and actually get the pi, fast forward to now I been with my pi for almost 2 years and I don't regret buying it. Best guitar I ever spent money on, I been loving my guitar ever since !! I currently own the Jem jr and the pi but over all my pi is favorite one
Rated 5/5
Just wow...
This was ordered as a back-up/upgrade for a well-loved Sparkle Blue Jem. In a nutshell, they took my favorite guitar and added a few (or more) dashes of amazing. It was playable right out of the box, taking only a few tweaks for preferences.
The main things to me are: It came standard with stainless frets. Utopia pickups are great and provide more punch than Evos. It feels a little more substantial/comfortable to play than the Jem (which also has stainless frets). And it really is a piece of art, to the point of distraction... soothing, mesmerizing distraction.
The only drawbacks are: 1.) the wait on backorder 2.) having to pepper spray others to get it back and 3.) emotional me feels like I'm cheating on my original Jem.
Rated 5/5
Best electric guitar I’ve ever played
This is the best electric guitar I have ever played. Hands down.

If you take stock on what has been done on this guitar you will find that everything ranging from neck feel, width, guitar balance, overall sustain, the trem feel and precision and the multitude of pickup selector options have been thoroughly engineered and revised to what this guitar is. It's a performing predator capable of exploring shades of color that only become possible when you feel inspired by how your instrument feels and sounds.

And it's a darn fine looking guitar as well.

I've played a variety of top shelf electrics. This guitar, from the standpoint of playability and the precision you can command with the neck surpasses every guitar I own, some at multiples of the cost of the Pia.

My first Ibanez. Wow. Very nicely done and absolutely worth the price if you don't want to spend the time and money to do this work yourself through setups and mods, etc.

My only gripe: when the ultra light weight trem bar sits in place there is a very small amount of wiggle which does not affect playing accuracy but is annoying.
Rated 5/5
Its a Jem only better
This has quickly become the only guitar I enjoy playing. Hard to keep out of my hands. serious MOJO. Thank you Mr Via