Ibanez Artcore AF95 Electric Guitar  

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Big-body tone and luxury appointments for a phenomenally small price.

The Ibanez Artcore AF95 Electric Guitar is a true full-hollow body guitar (no soundblock) with an ACH1 humbucker at the neck and an ACH2 at the bridge. Ibanez combines all that with an arched flamed maple top to give you smooth, hefty tone. Bound rosewood fretboard with 22 large frets, bound top, and bound f-holes provide lush looks accented by the sunburst pickguard that matches the body and mother-of-pearl/abalone block inlays. Flamed maple back and sides, set mahogany neck, and gold hardware.

Features

  • Full-hollow body
  • Flamed maple top, back, and sides
  • Set mahogany neck
  • Bound rosewood fretboard
  • 22 large frets
  • Bound top and F-holes
  • ACH1 humbucker at the neck
  • ACH2 humbucker at the bridge
  • Mother-of-pearl/abalone block inlays
  • Gold hardware

If you're serious about tone and not yet rich, this is your axe of choice. Put it in the cart.

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Great except the bridge

| Review By: Richard-f8nV9 | 1 month, 3 weeks ago

0 people out of 0 found this review helpful

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This is a standard 2-humbucking pickup hollowbody guitar. It would be better if it was 25 1/2" scale, but at this price you can't have everything. I would have also liked to see a jack plate - but most guitars don't have one...easy enough to install.

Quality:

The quality of the wood work is EXCELLENT. I was surprisingly happy with the sound of the pickups - I had expected to replace then, but decided there was no need. The tuners are O.K., not great, but O.K. I don't like the white perloid color anyway. Eventually I'll change them to Gotoh or grovers. The one problem with this guitar is the bridge - it rattled horribly. The screw thru hole sizes & threading didn't match the screws. I found the same problem when I played an AF75 at a local music store. I replaced it with a $35 Gotoh bridge from StewMac. Sounds fine now. I may try a wood bridge in the future, just to see what that sounds like.

Value:

This is a great value. Only the Ibanez AG95 and AF95 are comparable in that price range.

Overall:

I'm extremely happy with this guitar. The all maple body is slightly brighter than most hollowbodys, but that's a good thing.  I've always felt that most hollowbodys are way too bassy. This guitar captures that 'George Benson' or 'Norman Brown' sound perfectly. Great for jazzy funk and light jazz, yet still has that rich resonant jazz hollowbody sound.

 

This is also an EXTREMELY beautiful guitar without being too flamboyant.

 

With a replacement bridge, tuners & a jack plate it's good to go...I may try some GFS P-90s just to see what they sound like, but I'm very happy with the sound as is.

 

I'm very happy with this guitar.

Do you own the product?:
Yes
Have you used the product?:
Yes
Musical Experience:
40+ years
Style of music you play:
Jazz, Rock, Classical
Where you live:
Connecticut

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I'm A Believer

| Review By: Freddie Clark | 4 months, 1 week ago

2 people out of 2 found this review helpful

Features:

Considering what you are probably looking for in a hollow body you can find in the AF95. The pickups, the tuners, the knobs that you love Ibanez for, the pickguard, the bridge, the tail piece, and the ability to load the guitar with round or flat wound strings comes to mind in the features department.

Quality:

Often this is a relative topic but considering the price it truly is a nice guitar. It well exceeds the needs of most guitarists of all levels.

Value:

It's definitely a value no doubt about it. I have read many of the reviews about this guitar, some that are really misleading in my opinion. I'm talking about people saying how hard it is to set the guitar up to people talking about gold platting peeling. I have not seen that to be the case, I'm very hard on guitars and it's still going strong after using it on a recording project. And lets be honest you shouldn't expect a guitar of this price range to live up to the standards of a more expensive instrument but in many ways this one does.

Overall:

I just produced the new Karen Elyse - Matters Of The Heart CD and I use this guitar on many of the tracks. There is a snipet video of on youtube of one of the takes, I could say a lot of things but seeing the guitar in action speaks volumes.

 

I've endoresed a lot of guitars over my more than 30 years of professional play, with everyone from Brian McKnight to Brian Auger and I haven't purchased a guitar for 20 years and I bought this one which pretty much says it all.

 

If you are looking a quality instrument and you don't want to spend $4,000 or more I strongly suggest that you pick up a Artcore AF95. Very nice instrument

Do you own the product?:
Yes
Have you used the product?:
Yes
Musical Experience:
Expert/Professional Musician-Producer
Style of music you play:
All Genres
Where you live:
Santa Monica, CA

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Just Ok!

| Review By: Costeu59 | 10 months, 6 days ago

2 people out of 3 found this review helpful

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I bought this guitar from a local music store after reading all the comments about it. .

 

Very average guitar. The action has to be set up high to achieve reasonable playability. Fret buzz is very obvious in the 8 to10th fret. The upper registers are hard to play. Using heavier gauge strings and adjusting the truss rod does not help much. The gold plating on the tail piece started peeling off after two weeks

 

Beautifull guitar with near perfect finish. Great Jazz tone (used with a Roland Cube 30x). Well made for the price.

Do you own the product?:
Yes
Have you used the product?:
Yes
Musical Experience:
15 years
Style of music you play:
jazz, rock, worship
Where you live:
Calgary

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China Made

| Review By: Ickie-PQUhc | 1 year, 5 months ago

3 people out of 4 found this review helpful

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First Off I have been playing for 45 years and have owned a music store. I am also a guitar tech. I did many days of research on this Artcore Model AF95PV-TK-12-01 and nowhere did anything I read said it was made in China. Well it is. When I received it the pick guard was really far off and I had to re-set it. Next the tail piece/string holder was off by a whole screw hole. This caused the bridge to move down as soon as I started to play it, causing the intonation to go haywire. I had to remove and fill the holes with epoxy and re-drill/mount the tail piece. Next I had to adjust the truss rod, it was way too tight thus causing the guitar to play hard. Now ... the fret board is almost flat not hardly an arch, and this is for beginners, lol. On the Ibanez website I did look at the profile and it showed a nice arch. The frets are Chinese and are not polished and thus play ruff. I had to change strings 3 times to find what is the best and I found Martin Acoustic Ex Light, 10's sound the best either plugged in or not. This gives the guitar that warm sound I was looking for. If it wasn't for Musician's Friend giving me an excellent XMAS deal I would have returned it. I paid $279.99 for the guitar and the hard shell case. But now I am letting the cat out on this guitar, it is Made In China.
Do you own the product?:
Yes
Have you used the product?:
No
Musical Experience:
Retired Pro
Style of music you play:
Metal/Rock/Jazz/Blues
Where you live:
St. Petersburg, Fl.

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surprisingly good - and surprising

| Review By: Anonymous User | 2 years, 1 week ago

2 people out of 2 found this review helpful

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I went looking for a semi or full hollow body because a wanted deeper, smoother tones than I got from my Strat. After playing everything at Guitar Center a couple of times I ended up with one of these, because it delivered what I was looking for. And I could have bought something far more expensive. The funny thing is, once I had it home and played it regularly, I kept drifting into the not smooth end of things, especially after restringing with heavier nickel flat wounds. Don't get me wrong; this thing will deliver all the smooth jazz sounds you want. But it can make you rock. It just delivers, period. I can't remember when I last got this much guitar for the money, and I am not young. So, do not overlook this guitar when you are looking over guitars.
Do you own the product?:
Yes
Have you used the product?:
No
Musical Experience:
unspecified
Style of music you play:
jazz, blues, lounge, rock
Where you live:
left coast

Did you find this review helpful? yes no827324

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