Evaluate Your Used Guitar #1

[boleynali]

by the time you set all the switches for your big solo the songs ended.i remember these from back in the day..never impressed me.

[stringbender57]

@boleynali LMAO! My thoughts exactly. I remember these too! The more switches and knobs, the more trouble lurking within! I had a Ibanez Artist in the late 70's. It just had the usual pickup selector and two tvolumes and two tone knobs. It played and sounded as good as any Gibson Les Paul at the time and at half the price. Loved that guitar. Wish I had it back!

[runninonempiy]

So your saying that some goofs are telling you that your eye isn't good enough to check for a straight neck...THOSE GOOFS ARE DICKERED!!

[Digideus]

"Thats the Hum position!" HAHAHAHAAA!

[indianjjy]

those bring good money if in good shape, FWIW...

[davey4557]

@indianjjy

Most of it can be repaired for a few hundred bucks

[Gavin66627]

I think that guitar needs some more switches

[Nelion5189]

P.S.: Look for "1981 Ibanez AR500 Artist" here on YouTube

[Nelion5189]

Looks like a bad case of an Artist AR500 with preamp and active electronics to me. These guitars were famous for their quality and sound when Gibson (Norlin) produced crap. I own a Musician MC500 with the same electronics.

!!!Warning!!! All pictures of Artis guitars I was able to google ware infected with trojans. My virus protection software blocked them

[Davesintexas]

Seems to me that when you shot this video the thinking cap was off.  That replaced those plastics when they had to route out that regular control area in order to place those toggles inside. Who knows that all those switches are..you need a road map. Ive read that the brass nut was placed on those due to a weakened area of the nut falling inward so thats a brace. Or at least thats what I read about one. Someone wanted to sell one to me a few back. Not in that bad of shape but bad.

[davey4557]

@Davesintexas

It's all original electronics :(

[davey4557]

@Davesintexas

and the brass nut thing/zero fret

[zach0520]

My favourite part: "I smell a gooching." You kill me Dave. :)

[sixstringthing1]

I think you've got to change something in the link to get it by, but I haven't figured that out yet. Doesn't make sense!

[sixstringthing1]

Davey: Thanks for your reply, but it must be something other than the $ sign they block, because my comment with $ signs got posted, but a LINK to a web page will never be accepted. PS: Another GREAT Video!

[davey4557]

@sixstringthing1

they block those as well

$got buy because it had no space after it

[davey4557]

@sixstringthing1

I guess $ does get by Hmmmm

[YourFavoriteLesbo]

@sixstringthing1 They don't want people spamming to outside sites which is why they don't allow links. If people feel compelled to share a link with someone, you can do it through private messages. Helps prevent a bunch of spammy useless self whoring, basically.

[randomtwit]

@YourFavoriteLesbo yeah that too :D

[mattallica464]

@sixstringthing1

leave out the dots and the h t and tp parts

[sixstringthing1]

@mattallica464

Thanks! 

[sixstringthing1]

Someone is selling an ar500 for $2500 bucks. search ironton missouri your list dot com

WHY CAN'T I POST LINKS IN COMMENTS? I GET "ERROR TRY AGAIN" WTF?????

[davey4557]

@sixstringthing1

youtube blocks the dollar sign so people don't use it to sell stuff

[randomtwit]

@sixstringthing1 youtube doesnt want people leaving youtube by following links.. trying to make the website more "sticky" its lame but alot of sites try that crap

[sixstringthing1]

@randomtwit OK, thank you! It never made sense, but I see now why they do it. I wonder if there is any way around it? I've tried using spaces, removing the w w w, and nothing has worked yet. Thanks, cheers.

[randomtwit]

@sixstringthing1 I usuallly dont include that stuff

just put in your link like:  newtek dot com slash coolstuff

etc... cheers

[sixstringthing1]

@randomtwit

Thanks!

[sixstringthing1]

Here are good pics of 3 "Artists". I think the AR500 is the one with all the knobs.  Go to the gear page dot com and search. For some reason I can't post links on these comments. wtf?

[PRSguy94]

The Electronics are stock on that guitar. The two mini-switch positions are Singlecoil, Humbucker in series, and humbucker in parallel. The third mini-switch is an EQ bypass. I'm not sure on what all the knobbies do but that's the fun part!

[sixstringthing1]

It looks like it is an Ibanez Artist AR500.

[turnercarl]

one more thing when your look down the camera lens up close . can you do the shinning type thing hears dave.

[eproductions2008]

Uh oh, Dave's on a new set. Time to blow shit up.

[BIGBABYZIP]

A 1980 ON FEE-BAY Item number: 260928547422 SAME THING



[ziggassedup]

It looks to me like someone had a brain storm idea and I'm not sure why...interesting.

[JamesRRM]

haha i love the little clips you put on the end sometimes. greetings from nottingham, england

[Laburnus]

Yep all these knobs and switches were a part of short series they put out. The more things extra the higher the serie/value . Usually there were coil-split/out of phase dings. The most pricey ones had eq knobs. Just like this one.

[Laburnus]

I bet that this axe will land on ebay in about 2-3 weeks for about 2 000 $ or better.

[Laburnus]

I bet that this axe will land on ebay in about 2-3 weeks for about 2 000 $ or better.

[MrStefanSociety]

Hey! The rub and tugs open but I dont like the way it looks xD!!! I nearly passed out from laughter!

[MaximillianRed]

oh for the love of it all thats too many knobs and switches

[dmedicFF]

wow that's a massive bridge on that guitar...

[ms3bani]

the guitar is ultra gooched...

[valkiris]

I wonder if that's the same warehouse they shot Total Recall at (the remake). It was all chinatown-ish. I know because I was in it, hehe.

[davey4557]

@valkiris

I's a new set same shit different pile

[valkiris]

That's a lot of frickin' knobs and buttons!! LOL

[TVLTNT]

These early made in Japan Ibanez Artist guitars were and still are incredile made guitars.

I have 2 of these and yes the half bone and half brass nut was standard for these guitars in the late 70's to early 80's models that were still made in japan. Just awesome top quality woods were used and other real materials such as Mother of Pearl and Abolone, Ebony fingerboards. Plus just excellent pickups and electronics of the time period on these Artist models.

[BIGBABYZIP]

@TVLTNT YES! A REAL GUITAR. JAPAN MAKES STRATS BETTER THEN FENDER.

[Agripa78]

Haahahaah fuck with every switch in a matter or 3 sec

[VMATT500C]

Cool.

[moucon]

Hey - you didn't have to mock-up the street where that guitar was made - we all know Ibanez are Oriental ;-) That axe has some true "road wear" - it's seen the inside of more than a couple 80's clubs. Now I miss my mullet.

[mattallica464]

My 1979 st-100 has the same nut and switch

[unibrow9]

you using that little Orange amp on your bench or what??

[ClassicT1]

The guitar looks all original; Ibanez Artist AR500 for sure. Switching is as follows (top to bottom)-

Gold knobs- Large Master Volume Master Tone Gain

Black Knobs- Bass Mids Treble

Treble side switches are for something called "Tri-Sound" on each pickup and the bass side switches control turn the EQ on/off.

The brass and bone combination nut, not quite a zero fret, was standard in the late 70's /early 80's.

[torontoTWANG]

go home Jake, it's Chinatown!

[vernonbigsby]

great screwdriver plectrum you got there dave, goochtastic!

[69schil]

O.K, so try this Dave...

Urinate in a bong, trim some pubic hair from your balls / ass, put the hair in the bowl

and take a long deep toke....mmmmmmmmmmmm lovely !

To enhance the experience you can take a huff on your jenk afterwards...

If you need any more help, just let me know...

[HughJaz69]

first......love ibanez

[schneibgamer1]

@HughJaz69 shouldn't you watch the entire video before commenting?

[HughJaz69]

@schneibgamer1 i own an rga