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Lightweight Mahogany Body
This 8-string Ibanez features a lightweight mahogany body with elegant contours and a smooth design, creating an incredibly comfortable instrument with sweet, warm tonal characteristics. As well as appearance, the Ibanez also features a double-cutaway body shape which allows easier access to the higher frets to deliver incredible flexibility across the entire fingerboard.
Wizard III-8 Neck Profile
The Ibanez Iron Label Guitar feature’s their own wizard III-8 neck profile, offering incredible comfort and speed for fast hand manoeuvres. While the 5-piece neck features a naturally smooth feel, the profile provides a thin, contoured shape that lets your hand cup the neck with ease. The jatoba fingerboard enhances the guitar’s tone with extra projection, offering a strong, hard character which adds extra punch and a subtle amount of brightness.
Multi-Scale Versatility
The RGMS8 guitar features a jatoba fingerboard with angled frets which ergonomically coordinate with the way the player's hand pivots as it moves up and down the neck, offering an incredibly quick and comfortable playing experience. The multi-scale construction offers both short scale and long scale in one neck, allowing players to achieve immense tonal possibilities.
Mono-Rail Bridge
The RGMS8 Iron Label features a special mono-rail bridge to improve string sustain and stability. Designed to work with the multi-scale neck, this bridge provides the ultimate string-to-string isolation, allowing each string to vibrate freely without affecting being affected by the others.
The Iron Label Series
The Ibanez Iron Label Series are a meticulously designed and professional quality series of 6, 7 and 8 string electric guitars purposely built for modern metal guitar players. The guitar’s feature only the highest quality parts, such as active EMG or DiMarzio pickups, Ibanez’s own nitro wizard neck, heavy duty hardware and switches. By stripping back the designs to the basics and working from the ground up, Ibanez have built an adept line of heavy metal guitars that cater to your every need and prove to be an outstanding choice for all styles of metal players.
About Ibanez Guitars
Over the past 30 years, Ibanez Guitars have always been at the forefront of developing the right tools for electric guitar players pushing the boundaries of music. For decades, Ibanez designers and luthiers have been the embodiment of this ideology, pushing their skills to the edge of imagination, consistently creating some of the most versatile and unique instruments ever. Although Ibanez guitars have been made since 1908, it wasn't until the late 1980s that they began to form an identity for themselves when artists such as Steve Vai and Frank Zappa began using their instruments. Now with a huge artist clientele across the globe, Ibanez are a leading manufacturer of electric guitars and basses and a first choice for many dedicated musicians.
Specifications
Body & Bridge
- Body: Mahogany
- Bridge: Mono-Rail
- Construction: Bolt-On
- Finish: Black
Neck & Fingerboard
- Neck: 5-Piece Maple/Walnut
- Profile: Wizard III-8 (Multi-Scale)
- Scale Length: 25.5’’ @1st String, 27’’ @7th String
- Fingerboard: Jatoba
- Frets: 24 Jumbo Fanned
- Inlays: White Split Off-Set Dots
Electronics & Hardware
- Bridge Pickup: Array-8 MS Humbucker
- Neck Pickup: Array-8 MS Humbucker
- Controls: Volume, Tone, 3-Way Pickup Selector
- Hardware: Cosmo Black
- String Gauges: .009, .011, .016, .024, .032, .042, .059, .080
- Case Included: No
- Recommended Case: MR500C