RBM1CA

Details & History

This is a beautiful red Reb Beach model Voyager with gold hardware. This model is from the second production year, 1992. After this year the guitars were built with black hardware instead of gold. Serial number F201139. This is not the Korean Model! It was built in the Fujigen-Gaki Japanese shop where the high end Universe and Jem models are made (as indicated by the "F" in the serial number). After the first 2 years, Ibanez began producing the lesser quality Korean ones with colored headstocks. This guitar has been well cared for, and the body is impeccable! No dings. The gold on the tremolo has a bit of wear and has some minor bubbling like all guitars from this time. The entire guitar plays like butter, the tremolo is super smooth. The guitar was played for about a year, and then hung on my wall after that. Never gigged with it at all. And the frets are not worn down, they're fine and will still be playable for a long, long time.

Mahogany body - no dings, no damage!
All Access Neck Joint (AANJ)
1 piece Maple neck w/Rosewood fretboard (22 frets), thin and fast
5 way pickup selector and coil-tap switch for bridge humbucker (allows you to split to a single coil)
Lo Pro Edge locking tremolo system, arguably the best tremolo system made.
 

{Notice the gold extras on the 1992 model, missing on the earlier version. Ed!}

Details & History

'91 Ibanez RBM1 Voyager

• Mahogany body
• 1 piece Maple neck w/Rosewood fretboard (22 frets), thin and fast
• Double spaced humbucker in bridgeposition
• Single spaced SB1 humbuckers in the neck and middle positions
• 5 way pickup selector and coil-tap switch for bridge humbucker (allows you to split to a single coil)
• Lo Pro Edge locking tremolo system, arguably the best tremolo system made
• Patented all-access neck joint
• Professionally set up with gauge 009-042 strings, very fast action!

This is a beautiful red Reb Beach model Voyager with black hardware. This model is from the first production year, 1991. It was built in the Fujigen-Gaki Japanese shop where the high end Universe and Jem models are made (as indicated by the "F" in the serial number). After the first 2 years, Ibanez began producing the lesser quality Korean ones with gold hardware and coloured headstocks. This guitar has been well cared for, but there are a few of the inevitable dings, but these are just very small.

Details & History

A little about the history of the RBM by Jimi D

The RBM Voyager models were introduced in 1991, I think... The first available models were the RBM1 and RBM2 - the RBM2 was the Koa "signature" guitar, and 150 of them were signed and numbered by Reb... no one's really sure but there's probably less than 500-600 RBM2s around, and some estimates are considerably smaller than that. In 1994, the original Japanese RBM models were replaced by the Korean RBM10 and RBM400 - the RBM10 was a true Korean RG guitar, and suffers from crap pickups and the TRS Trem... The RBM400 is basically an RBM1 with natural finish. They stopped making them after 1995. Reb is now with John Suhr Guitars. The dates here are tentative, but I can confirm them. Jimi D