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You must have found out that I have a strong focus on one particular guitar brand: Ibanez. I am very proud to call some fine Ibanez instruments my own and would like to share my love for these guitars with all fellow Ibanez lovers worldwide. Through the years of surfing the web, always looking for other fans and information, I have met many great people and collected a load of important links. I decided to assemble them here to give you guys a couple of more sites to enjoy after you're done with mine :-) |
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Beyond Ibanez | Ibanez Websites | Ibanez Friends and Collectors | Endorsers
Sometimes it's important to look beyond the end of one's nose. Here are some (non-Ibanez) links to German luthiers.
Tausch Guitars Rainer Tausch Probably the finest handmade custom guitars south of the Danube. Period. Created by Rainer Tausch of Illertissen/Germany.
teuffelguitars Uli Teuffel The symbiosis of concept, design and top craftsmanship: Ulrich Teuffel of Holzschwang/Germany with his highly acclaimed award-winning instruments birdfish, niwa and tesla. Out of this world.
Siggi Braun - Fine Young Guitars Siggi Braun Another highly skilled and very friendly guitar maker, located in Göppingen/Germany, offering either semi-custom guitars featuring his trademark shape, or full-custom designs in his custom shop. From Siggi Braun, you can expect wonderful wood work, fine finishes and superb service. :-)
Frank Hartung Guitars Frank Hartung Frank Hartung of Langewiesen in Thuringia presented his fresh and new line of guitars at the 2004 Frankfurt music fair for the first time - under the label FORGE Guitars. This has been changed to his last name in 2009. It's good to see that even today, in the age of the two or three big brands ruling the market, new guitar manufacturing companies emerge with a vision and a total devotion to the instrument itself. Keep up the good work!
Häussel/Coiltec Pickups Harry Häussel He's the "German Pickup Guru", offering custom handwound pickups, and also CNC routing services e.g. for fretboards and inlays. Harry's workshop is located in Burladingen/Germany.
Nik Huber Guitars Nik Huber Looking for a great alternative for PRS and other boutique stuff? Go check out Nik's guitars! Comin' atcha straight outta Rodgau/Germany.
Staufer Guitars André Waldenmaier Luthier André Waldenmaier of Munich is one of Germany's most credited repairmen, especially for very delicate work on vintage equipment. He once re-vamped a quite "puzzled" Les Paul (that has been smashed into 1000 pieces) and made it sound even better than when it was intact. :-) Go figure.
Axstar by Ibanez Site USA The 1985/1986 Axstar by Ibanez series of guitars and basses are one of the long forgotten gems of high-quality yet experimental guitars designed by Ibanez. Note many of these models are Japanese made but not from Fujigen. Anyway, check out Nathan's site, he also has catalog scans. Blue Horizon ? Scans and pictures from Ibanez catalogs. Bunker Guitars USA Dave Bunker explains the PBC Tension Free Neck which appeared on Mid-90's Ibanez USRG guitars. Captain Ibanez AU Cameron Berthold a.k.a. "Captain Ibanez" from Sydney, Australia is one of the most renowned Ibanez experts from the Ibanez Collectors Forum and has started a Wiki page about Ibanez guitars, including a load of catalog scans. Also available as ibanezwiki.com
Cottam Guitars UK This UK-based shop is carrying Ibanez spare parts that are sometimes difficult to get through the official distributor paths.
Early Ibanez ? Steve put up this page bout early large size Ibanez effect pedals like the "Flying Pan" from the 1970s. Eddie Kolesar Guitar Co. USA Another manufacturer of custom guitars and replacement parts, currently specializing in RG, JEM and UV body styles. The pictures give a great first impression!
Fede Designs USA Formerly known as Herc Fede Custom Shop. A great swirl artist who became famous through Jemsite and Glen's custom swirled guitars. He also makes Custom JPM and JS3 replicas.
Fujigen Inc. JP At the Fujigen Gakki plant, the Japanese-made Ibanez models are manufactured. But they also make guitars for other brands and companies.
Gitarrenelektronik.de DE Helmuth Lemme is a well-known guitar electronics wizard in Germany and offers a great modification for 1970s Ibanez Les Paul Recording copies with low-impedance pickups. Hartman's Iceman Pages USA Lots of specialized information about the guitar series that became famous through Paul Stanley of KISS - the Ibanez Iceman.
Heartfield Central USA Details about Fender Heartfield guitars, built by Ibanez (Fujigen-Gakki factory, to be more precise) in the early 90s. Collectors Richard Karsmakers, Paul S. Abrams and the people from the forum assembled a load of valuable information about these rare birds and many pictures of the different models.
Hoshino Gakki Co. LTD JP The website of Ibanez's mother company. With history, company profiles and an editorial by the president Yoshihiro Hoshino.
Ibanez Int. The official international Ibanez site. Note how the site design and the guitar lineups differ for various countries...
Ibanez AM ? A comprehensive site dedicated to the Ibanez AM series of semiacoustic electric guitars. Great work, Sven! Ibanez Artfield NL John Muijen's blog-like fan site is about the elusive 1988-1989 Ibanez Artfield series. Many AFD owners contribute to this site, including the most famous Artfield addict Patrick Sedoc from The Netherlands.
Ibanez Collectors' World USA Discussion, appreciation and identification about old and new Ibanez guitars in one of the largest Ibanez-related forums on the web. Ibanez Forum USA The official Ibanez discussion forum, hosted by Ibanez employees. The number one source for up-to-date information.
Ibanez Japan JP The official Japanese Ibanez site, featuring many interesting models unavailable in USA or Europe.
Ibanez Lover's Gallery ? A very nice Ibanez catalog scan collection from the 80's can be found here, thanks to Craig. Ibanez Prestige Int. New for 2006, the Ibanez Prestige line of guitars gets its own feature website, very nicely done with beautiful pictures, promo videos and endorser interviews.
Ibanez Register UK Jerry put up this great site with a comprehensive user-submitted gallery; including pictures of all USA Custom Graphic guitars. Some of my guitars are featured there, too. Check it out!
Ibanez Talk ? Yet another very nice and comprehensive discussion forum about Ibanez guitars. Ibanez Vintage Page (1) USA No longer maintained, but still very valuable page about vintage Ibanez guitars, provided by former employee Jim Donahue.
Ibanez Vintage Page (2) CH/NL Hasy Neuenschwander and Harry Kruisselbrink, wo private collectors from Switzerland and The Netherlands show numerous lawsuit instruments from the 60s and 70s and many interesting catalog scans. This site has become a great resource for information about the vintage Ibanez era.
Ibanez Rules!! USA Rich Harris is a guitar broker in Sewell/New Jersey and specializes in high end Ibanez guitars. He is a very nice guy, a real Ibanez maniac/expert and calls an insane collection his own, including the whole JS line with all different graphics, the limited editions and an original JS2CH! You make us drool, dude!
Ibanez Wiki USA "Captain Ibanez" is one of the most renowned Ibanez experts from the Ibanez Collectors Forum and has started a Wiki page about Ibanez guitars, including a load of catalog scans. Also available as captainibanez.com
Ibanez.de DE The official German Ibanez site, hosted by the import company Meinl. Click your way through to find cool catalog scans going back to the 1970s!
Ibanez.ru Catalogs RU The Russian Ibanez site is also hosting an exhaustive Ibanez catalog scan collection - a lot of work went into that, Ibanez fans will gladly appreciate it.
Ibanez87.it IT Ibanez fan Nuno from Italy shows his amazaing late 80's Ibanez collection, a lot of scans (catalogs, magazine covers, advertisements, booklets) and features interesting interviews with Rich Lasner (former Hoshino USA employee and guitar designer) and Ibanez endorser Larry Mitchell. Ibanez-guitar.com ? An unofficial site with a couple of pictures and history information. They offer a guitar-related newsletter too. But I have the impression as if this site is not well maintained...
Ishibashi Music JP This Japanese music shop has some very nice and exclusive Ibanez models. They used to have an international buyers section, but it hasn't been updated in a century, so you have to dig through Japanese hieroglyphs. :-)
J-Custom Fan JP A great fan site in Japanese language about Ibanez J-Custom, Prestige and Signature series guitars. Many many photographs, feature listst and also catalog scans. JEM7BSB.com ? A site dealing with the Ibanez JEM7BSB model. You can join the 7BSB webring there if you have one of these guitars.
Jemsite USA The ultimate source of information about Ibanez JEM, Universe and USA Custom guitars. A MUST SEE! Owned and operated by Glen C. Cianciully since the dawn of time. I mean, 1997. ;-) Update 2008: Change in ownership of the site, but still fully functional, including the forum.
The forum started out as a small addition to the site but grew exponentially. Lots of great people can be found there, including Ibaez employees who tune in from time to time, but also Ibanez experts and the likes.
JPM Site ? This page is about John Petrucci's former signature series Ibanez JPM.
JS Site IT Pino from Italy collected lots of information about Joe Satriani's signature guitars Ibanez JS.
Kisekae Electric Guitars JP A superbly programmed Flash application; it is a virtual guitar modeling system including a JEM and an RG kit. It's so much fun, you could spend hours and hours! Just give it a try!
Kosaku's World USA Kosaku Nakamura has the most extensive and most amazing Ibanez collection ever seen on the web - over 300 instruments!!! Can you believe it? But he also has many non-Ibanez guitars. I wonder in what size of a hangar he keeps all those great axes... Mr-Ibanez.com USA Orval Engling is a renowned Ibanez expert who was also involved in the production of the book "Ibanez - The Untold Story" because of his extensive collection of rare and beautiful vintage Ibanez guitars. His website is in the process of a re-launch and we can look forward to many cool pictures. Musik Meinl DE This is the German Ibanez distributor's site, that now also offers catalog scans, maintenance hints and other interesting information about Ibanez guitars and products. mymaxxas.de DE This is a personal Maxxas appreciation website in German language by Michael Schaper, featuring beautiful photographs of a MX3BH along with a historical and also personal information text. Definitely worth a visit! Pamelina USA She is one of the artists who painted the 1990-ish Ibanez USA Custom Graphic series guitars.
RG20th.com USA In 2007 Ibanez releases the 20th Anniversary RG550 model - here is the user registry!
Smooth's 2355 Site ?? A great fan site dedicated to the early 1970 jazz box model No. 2355 (a copy of the famous Gibson ES-175).
Starfield Unofficial Website UK Starfield was another cool sub-brand of Hoshino/Ibanez, here explained and shown in a history and a gallery by Andrew from the UK. Very interesting!
Universal Jems USA Brian used to offer Jem and Universe related custom work, he is now specializing in electric guitar hardware and pickup sales.
Vintage Ibanez Museum DE Among other stuff, the vintage guitar collection of this German fan named Pingo Schlüter was exhibited at a Museum in Schwerin/Germany in 2003, in cooperation with the German Ibanez distributor and a guitar magazine. On his personal site, there's also a showcase for his instruments.
Andreas D.
(www.ibanator.com)DE I met Andreas in the musiker-board.de forum and found another real Ibanez Maniac in him. He decided to sell off his complete collection of fine RGs (RG550DY, RG550XXM-RF, RG2020SOL) and also his JEM77FP 15th Anniversary to raise funds for a JEMVAI2KDNA. Good luck, keep it up and rock on! Bytebold DE Although I don't know his real name, I really need to mention Bytebold's magnificent JEM collection here. Franz Bachleitner AT Another guitar lover and collector: Franz from Austria. He also has an interesting collection, it used to include a rare Ibanez 540PII "Power-II" (unofficial Alex Skolnick signature model) which is now sold.
Graeme Nicholson USA The Nikosan site is Graeme's online hideaway. He likes Japanese women, Halloween movies and Ibanez guitars. Among others, he has four beautiful JEMs (VWH, DBK, FP, DY customized) and a rare 1987 540P "Power".
Holger Hansmann DE Holger is a big Dream Theater fan and loves to play his Ibanez Saber Prestige.
Jimi D. CA Jimi from Ottawa has many nice instruments, enjoys giving personal histories of his guitars and knows a lot about each model's lineage. For this reason, his site is very similar to mine and worth many visits. He used to have a couple of great Ibanez guitars, but his guitar throughput is very high and every single one is sold. Instead, he is currently specializing in Music Man guitars.
Joachim Seemann DE An engineer and guitar collector from Munich. Guitar-Joe, as his friends call him, has amassed a great collection of over 70 instruments!
Kessier Hsu TW Kessier from Taiwan plays with the band SERAPHIM and calls an overwhelming Ibanez J-Custom collection his own. He also put a lot of time and effort into assembling a massive gallery of Ibanez guitar pictures from all over the www. It's even more comprehensive than the official sites, because it also goes back to the past and out-of-production models. Magnus Olsson SE Magnus from Sweden is a fantastic guitarist, he is endorsed by Ibanez and also DiMarzio. He has an awesome collection of beautiful Ibanez guitars and huge photographic skills on top of that - check it out! Marcus Reichert DE My best e-mail friend Marcus has a fascinating guitar collection, featuring a couple of very nice and collectable Ibanez rarities. Unbelievable, he has three super-rare Artfield models under his belt. Once his page is finally completely finished (it's in a constant "under construction mode"), it may be showing his exclusive amplification gear.
Olaf Berhorst DE Olli from Backyard Music is half dealer and half collector, and he's definitely an Ibanez maniac - specializing in late 1970s and 1980s Ibanez guitars, but he is also attracted to JEMs and RGs.
Patrick Voes BE This is Patrick from Belgium. He has numerous nice Ibanez JEMs and other models. What a gallery!
Patrik Walzer CH Patrik of Bern/Switzerland is the guitarist of the band Lingua Nera. He is the proud owner of 11 (eleven!) high-end Ibanez guitars including four super-rare models: UV77MC, JEM2KDNA, JEM90HAM and JS10TH. Currently he seems to be spezializing in 540P "Power" models. I'm really envious and looking forward to further updates to his home page.
Richard Horner USA The homepage of Richard Horner has been completely revamped, check it out! He has sold his Ibanez USA Custom Graphic Angels Depart guitar but still has the unbelievable amassment of five super-rare Ibanez USA Custom American Master guitars. Simply amazing.
Ron van der Park NL On his website, Ron from the Netherlands features a couple of very nice Ibanez guitars including a beautiful UV77MC and a UV7BK with scallopped neck. Ron is a big scallop fan anyway :-)
Wolfgang Meinert DE Wolfgang is the lead guitarist of the band X-Large and proudly uses (among others) a nice PGM300, a limited edition RG503BEMS, a classy Proline PL-1770 and a cool JPM100P2 guitar.
Zlatko Perica CH Zlatko is proud to be the first Ibanez endorser in Switzerland who was pictured in the European Ibanez catalog. His Ibanez collection is also a must-see.
Name Website I have CD(s) I heard live I got autograph Andy Timmons (USA) www.andytimmons.com BP CD Dave Uhrich (USA) www.daveuhrich.com BP CD Dave Weiner (USA) www.daveweiner.com BP George Benson (USA) www.georgebenson.com Jennifer Batten (USA)
Now endorsing Washburnwww.jenniferbatten.com HS BP CD Joe Satriani (USA) www.satriani.com BP CD Jon Finn (USA) www.jonfinn.com BP Kessier Hsu (Taiwan) http://www.seraphim-metal.com/KH/ Larry Mitchell (USA) www.larrymitchell.com Magnus Olsson (Sweden) www.magnusolsson.com Olaf Jackwert (Germany) www.jackwert.de 
CD Pat Metheny (USA) www.patmethenygroup.com Patrick Rondat (France) www.rondat.com Paul Gilbert (USA) www.paulgilbert.com Ralf Sommerfeld (Germany) www.summerfield.de CD Rob Balducci (USA) www.robbalducci.com Rudi Buttas (Germany) www.rudys-journey.de Steve Vai (USA) www.vai.com HS BP Tom Riepl (Germany) www.tom-riepl.de Zlatko Perica (Switzerland) www.zperica.com HS = backside of guitar headstock BP = tremolo backplate CD = CD cover or inlay
