Description

The Ibanez JSART2 is the second JS guitar customised by Joe Satriani himself. The first was released last year in 2015 for the 25th anniversary of the association and collaboration between Ibanez and Joe Satriani : the JS25ART. Joe went again to the Los Angeles custom shop, last time was for painting black bodies, now the white is his base material.

According to Joe, 76 bodies have been painted at the end, but only 35 are currenty sold in the US, the other will be distributed to the rest of the world. The starting price seems to be $7999Au in Australia, 5999$ in the US, between 5999-6999€ in Europe and around 5799£ in the UK. However, numbers 46, 49, 50, 51, 59, 74 are missing, more likely reserved to Joe himself.

The features stay pretty close to the JS25ART, but stole new features from the recent Prestige model the JS2450. The body is basswood like the majority of JS guitars, but here the neck is a 3 pieces neck with maple and bubinga, and a rosewood fingerboard. That’s the second time they made this wood assiciation between body and neck, the first being the JS24P. Pearly dots will fit the neck nicely, going along with the body white base.

On the electronics side, the JSART2 has two DiMarzio pickups, without surprise a Mo’Joe for the bridge and a Satch Track on the neck. They are chromed, no-common feature in the Ibanez JS history, indeed the chrome was only reserved for the JS2PRM and JS90HAM until the JS2450 came out.

This guitar has a push/pull system on both the Volume and a high-pass filter and a coil tap on the Tone pot as the other high-end Ibanez JS. The chrome hardware isn’t a surprise, along with the Ultralite Tremolo Arm, included with the Edge bridge.

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”. Click here for more Joe Satriani guitars.

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