Ibanez Artcore AF95 Electric Guitar  

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.