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Question: What do you think about Ibanez Artcore series guitars!?
I'm looking into buying a hollow body guitar and after searching on the internet the Ibanez range seems promising!. Has anyone had experience with these kind of guitars!? Any help would be greatly appreciated!.Www@QuestionHome@Com


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I spent quite a bit of time looking for a decent hollow-body in the $300-$500 price range!. I ended up getting an artcore AF75D!.

In my opinion there really isn't a better hollow body that even comes close to the AF or AG series, in terms of bang for your buck!.

Epiphone has a few models in this price range, but I thought they all felt kind of weak, and cheap feeling!. Ibanez really has the market cornered for inexpensive hollow bodies!.

Just for the sake of completeness, I'll point out that if you want to spend between $500-1000, Gretsch (the kings of hollow bodies, imo) has a line of low-end guitars called Electromatics!. I strongly considered one of these, but to be honest, they didn't seem much better than the less expensive Ibanez'es!. Gretsch doesn't really stand out unless you get their mid-to-high end guitars (roughly $2000+)!.

So in short, my experience is that in the $300-500 price range, an artcore AF or AG is your best bet, BY FAR!. Even in the $500-1000 range, I didn't feel there was anything better!. So unless you plan to spend over $1000, an Artcore is the way to go!.

**Edit** By the way!.!.!. I don't know if this will necessarily be the case for you, but the one I got was set up terribly! The bridge was completely misaligned, the action was waaaay too high, the intonation was way off, etc!. But i just set it up myself and it played wonderfully!. If you don't know how to set up a guitar, just take it to a luthier or guitar shop and they'll set it up for you for about $30-50 or so!. It's worth it (unless you get really lucky and it's set up good from the factory)Www@QuestionHome@Com

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