Description

Ibanez JS10th “Chromeboy” is a signature guitar for Joe Satriani. Joseph Satriani is an American instrumental rock guitarist and multi-instrumentalist. Early in his career, Satriani worked as a guitar instructor. Many of his former students achieving fame, such as Steve Vai, Larry LaLonde, Rick Hunolt, Kirk Hammett, Andy Timmons, Charlie Hunter, Kevin Cadogan, and Alex Skolnick. Click here to read more about Joe Satriani.

The Ibanez JS10th, also named Chromeboy, is a very special guitar because it celebrated 10 years of collaboration with Joe Satriani. For this occasion, Ibanez realised his second attempt to manufacture chrome guitars, after the JS2. You can read on the back plate “In commemoration of the 10 year association and collaboration between Joe Satriani and Ibanez Guitars.”

Of course Joe has been using personal chrome guitars for many years. The famous ones were named “Chromeboy”, “Pearly“ and “Refrator”, but manufacturing chrome guitars for his fans was a major step.

507 chrome models were produced all over the world. Joe himself owns the #370. A funny fact is that a #508 actually exists, one JS10th had some quality issues, so Ibanez made another one but forgot to serialise the replacement. Its body is made of a very special material, luthite, that is a lightweight synthetic substitute for wood.

This guitar is like a JS1000 from 1998, with a maple neck and rosewood fingerboard, 6105 frets, DiMarzio PAF Pro and FRED pickups with hi-pass filter and split and abalone dots. The only visual differences with the JS1000 of the period (apart from the hardware and chrome finish), are the Edge tremolo and the jack input. It was inlaid near the strap button for the S1000 models and for the JS10th it is a little bit further on the side. That’s pretty rare for the JS series. Only a few have this feature, like the JSBDG, because it comes back from the 540 Radius series, before the very first JS1 model.

This signature model is produced in Japan.

JOE SATRIANI
Joseph Satriani is an American instrumental rock guitarist and multi-instrumentalist. Early in his career, Satriani worked as a guitar instructor. Many of his former students achieving fame, such as Steve Vai, Larry LaLonde, Rick Hunolt, Kirk Hammett, Andy Timmons, Charlie Hunter, Kevin Cadogan, and Alex Skolnick. He is a 15-time Grammy Award nominee and has sold over 10 million albums, making him the biggest-selling instrumental rock guitarist of all time. In 1988, Satriani was recruited by Mick Jagger as lead guitarist for his first solo tour. Satriani founded the multi-guitarist traveling experience called G3, which has seen him share stages with Vai, Eric Johnson, Yngwie Malmsteen, Robert Fripp, among others. Starting in 2009, Satriani traversed the globe again as a member of Chickenfoot. The all-star band (which also includes singer Sammy Hagar, former Van Halen bassist Michael Anthony and Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith) has issued two albums, their debut and 2011’s follow-up, “Chickenfoot III”.

ABOUT IBANEZ:
Ibanez is a Japanese guitar brand owned by Hoshino Gakki. Based in Nagoya, Aichi, Japan, Hoshino Gakki were one of the first Japanese musical instrument companies to gain a significant foothold in import guitar sales in the United States and Europe, as well as the first brand of guitars to mass-produce the seven-string guitar and eight-string guitar. Ibanez manufactures effects, accessories, amps, and instruments in Japan, China, Indonesia and in the USA (at a Los Angeles-based custom shop). www.ibanez.com