Details & History
Model: Ibanez JCRG-2 TB (Trans Blue)
Serial # 13044
Neck-Thru Construction
5-piece Maple/Wenge neck with
Hondura Mahogany wings (for the body)
Same neck profile as my RG8670 (17mm J-Custom neck) with an Ebony
fretboard, offset dots and flame maple binding
AAAA Flame maple top with imaginary/faux binding and a matching headstock
Lo-Pro Edge tremolo system with Cosmo White Hardware
Tone Zone/Blue Velvet/Air Norton Pickups
Angled output jack (just like the Jems)
I bought this guitar as a birthday present to myself so I can have something else for guests to drool over on my wall of guitars. I was so impressed with my RG8670 that I wanted a neck-thru version. Unfortunately I couldn’t find a JCRG-4 in a nice color so I settled for the JCRG-2 instead. Still wish this had the Vine of Life inlay but it’s still a nice guitar none the less.
As I got this guitar used, I had to put in quite a lot of work to clean it and make it super playable. I don’t know what happened to this guitar, but practically every metal part on this guitar had rust on it(machine heads, locking nuts, trem, even the sustain block!!). This guitar initially came with a good amount of lacquer on the back of the neck that I had to strip right off and now it plays like a dream. Gotta love how they faded in the finish to the neck.
