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This a another guitar I got today from a friend that gets some of the coolest gear~ Ibanez roadstarII

The attention to detail on these are fabulous: recessed rear cover, foiled logo, tuners, push/push tone control, basswood body, rosewood w/small pearloid dot markers and tone to the bone.

Never quite warmed up to the Roadstar series, but the Artists from that era are absolute killers. Ibanez was putting out some awesome stuff around then!!!

I love most old Ibanez stuff! My friend used to have a late 70’s Ibanez Studio, set neck super 70’s I think awesome guitar. I have another friend who has a Ibanez LesPaul copy late 70’s it’s a killer also.
Those roadtars were 80’s axes right? Seen a few and thought about buying ,,but the ones I seem to come across always seem to be beat! That is a cool looking guitar for sure. So how dose she play?

It plays like new and this one was built 4-12-1986, All original and I dont think any screw on it had been turned. When I got a call from my buddy BK~ I knew it was going to be cool.
I went over to play it (funny thing is, BK is a car salesman and deals vintage gear from his office at the car lot). Got there, picked it up and the strings were dead and it still sounded good, I restrung it there and took it home.
It has the boomerang strap buttons, Super 70 bucker and duotone push/push pot.
With this engaged I can get that EVH "Best of both worlds tone".

Very few left unmolested, but they are more bang for the buck than anything right now.

My science teacher at school had one of those - was a nice guitar from what I remember.

I myself owned a Roadster series bass with a maple neck that was just gorgeous - should have never sold it. The guy who bought it collected those basses and said it was the nicest one he'd ever played (doh!)

Let's see if this works. I have an '82 Roadstar II that I got in Feb of '83. Is one of the best guitars I ever owned and the one I have owned the longest. A true road warrior.

My first "real" guitar that my mom bought for me at Rockley Music in Lakewood, CO in February 1983. I used it as my main axe until 1992, when I switched to Stratocasters. I had it re-fretted and a new brass plug receptacle made in 1990 at Axe Haven in Denver. The original pickguard broke from so much use and abuse. I traded the original case to a bandmate for a "repro tweed" case (colored Con-Tact paper made to look like tweed) in 1988. I still have that as well.





Body



Neckplate



Headstock



Original receipt.

Direct page URL to my site page:

http://www.roscoeiron.com/guitars/82ibanez.html

- WOT

Alright! worldoftone, That is an interesting story and history of a really cool guitar, I wish there were more of these stories posted here!

That should be a given topic, Instruments and there owners stories.

Maybe I will post another soon, thanks for the replies!

My '82 Artist is actually the oldest guitar I have, and the one I've had the longest -- bought it used in about '89 so it's been with me twenty years. It's kinda beat up and hasn't been my main axe in a long time, but it's easily one of the best playing and sounding guitars I've had the pleasure of fondling, and it's never too far in the back in case the Gibsons and Fenders can't cut it.



Since that pic I've been putting NOS brightwork on it since the originals are so far gone, and got an original set of Super 58's with repro pickup rings for it too.

That guitar with the Super 58's is "PAF clip #3" on the link below:

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Oh yeah, Every Artist I have played has been great. I also had three Destroyers at one time, an '81 DT-50, '84 DT-155 and '82 DT-400. The DT 400 had the "best" tone compared to a Gibson or Hamer from the time period, but was also the nicest quality originally. The DT-50 was aggressive and the most original out of the three. The DT-155 was cool in it's own right with the triple-pickup combo.



I sold them all a couple of years ago to make some room in this place for all of my Fenders HA HA HA

- WOT