All user reviews of 5/5 for the Ibanez AW100

I purchased this guitar while looking at much more expensive instuments at Bud's in Peterborough Ontario. It was about $400 CDN including case. I later added a Lace soundhole pickup.

This guitar has a very clean sound. In short it rings like a bell. It is well made and lightly braced and demands light strings. I have played many other heavier instruments and found them to be finger breakers. I have made up for it's shallowness by adding a soundhole pickup. I can give the instrument a bass boost using the EQ on the mixer I play it through. The light fingering is something I'd forgotten since my "Strat" Days. A joy to play!!

As above it can be a little shallow in tone. This is more than made up by overall versatility and cleanliness/purity of sound. For whamming away on 3 chord stuff I would have picked a more robust guitar.

The instrument is flawless. Inside the bracing is impeccably glued and no rough edges. This is not an expensive guitar and I am more than pleased with overall quality. The neck is slim but no buzzing on even the high frets. The fret material is however soft and requires dressing more than usual. I will replace frets soon with harder material.

Wow..Good bang for the buck!!! I have really played this guitar to death and it really belies it's delicate nature. Much more robust than first impressions would indicate. Neck stays straight, no tuning/humidity problems.

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Bought online, after playing a few at local store for $290.

Very nice bright sound. Sounds like guitars costing much more.

The sides and back look like layered laminated wood, which, is ok since the sides and back are actually layered and laminated.

Very high quality construction. The Solid spruce top has some minor cosmetic defects, but the sound overcomes any blemish in the wood. In fact a very high grade Engelmen spruce top (no cosmetic defects) and high quality tunners cost more than this guitar. My guess is that all AW100 have cosmetic defects in the top.

This Ibanez guitar is actually made by a Korean company that makes many inexpensive guitars for many different brands. It is the Hyundai of korean guitars (not a bad thing). What I liked about the Ibanez branded version was the sound quality of the Englmen spruce top and higher quality tunners (grover). For the price, this gets a 5 out of 5.

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