NOW WITH VIDEO! A student lent me this 80's Ibanez Roadstar II for the week...

Mark Wein

Mark Wein

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He bought it new and never played it. It's a complete time capsule. I'm a little surprised at how good it sounds so I'm going to put fresh strings on it and shoot some video tomorrow....
 
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I had a Roadstar II with that trem unit on it. Felt lovely but as the pivot was one long edge as it wore away the tuning stability became a nightmare so I eventually blocked it off. The guitar sounded great but I sold it on when I needed to thin the herd a bit. I'd have it back if I ever came across it again.
 
Gorgon90 said:
I had a Roadstar II with that trem unit on it. Felt lovely but as the pivot was one long edge as it wore away the tuning stability became a nightmare so I eventually blocked it off. The guitar sounded great but I sold it on when I needed to thin the herd a bit. I'd have it back if I ever came across it again.
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I only had time to play it through my clean sounds yesterday and I was surprised at how good it worked for jazzier and funkier guitar playing.
 
A friend of mine had one of those when we were in high school. He never really learned how to play but I used to love playing it. I recall the trem bridge was huge and felt weird under my right hand… but otherwise I loved that guitar.

edit: it was some sort off Floyd type bridge, much chunkier than the one in Mark’s pic
 
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One of my students brought this PRISTINE Ibanez Roadstar II rs240 into his lesson - he bought it new in 1985, and it's pretty much been in the case ever since. He told me that when I put new strings on it this week, it was the guitar's second string change ever.

 
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