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Published on 04/15/03 at 15:00This was a gift, and I belive it was purchased at a Daddy's Junky Music store for around $500.
When I was a relatively new player, and taking lessons this was probably the worst possible guitar in the world for me. The floating bridge makes the guitar lose tuning a lot, the excellent hardware was being neglected because I didn't really know how to use it, and so it stayed in the corner of my room for four years. Now that I am a much for experienced player, and am able to write my own music and play well, this is a fantastic guitar. It was designed for metal, but the three pickups deliver excellent tone for soloing, especially blues. Its a nice shape, and size. It's pretty light, and I have had no problems with it since. It is an excellent guitar for my Death Metal band.
I am digusted with floating bridges. They are worthless pieces of crap, just get a wammy bar for pete's sake. Anyway, this bridge on the Ibanez is terribly unstable and causes the guitar to lose tuning very quickly. If you just want to rest your hand on the bridge (like with an ordinary Strat or Tele) than it cause the strings to go out of tune and change pitch. One day my guitar teacher guru told me about how the guitar can be opened up in the back. Find a piece of wood that fits the bridges size and stick it in between the bridge and the guitar. It works very well, and I have no other complaints about the RG270 DX.
It is built very solid, nothing is ever a problem. Every piece of hardware on this is excellent. This is a quality guitar.
Excellent guitar all around, and if you hate floating bridges you can fix it and enjoy the guitar.
This review was originally published on http://www.musicgearreview.com
When I was a relatively new player, and taking lessons this was probably the worst possible guitar in the world for me. The floating bridge makes the guitar lose tuning a lot, the excellent hardware was being neglected because I didn't really know how to use it, and so it stayed in the corner of my room for four years. Now that I am a much for experienced player, and am able to write my own music and play well, this is a fantastic guitar. It was designed for metal, but the three pickups deliver excellent tone for soloing, especially blues. Its a nice shape, and size. It's pretty light, and I have had no problems with it since. It is an excellent guitar for my Death Metal band.
I am digusted with floating bridges. They are worthless pieces of crap, just get a wammy bar for pete's sake. Anyway, this bridge on the Ibanez is terribly unstable and causes the guitar to lose tuning very quickly. If you just want to rest your hand on the bridge (like with an ordinary Strat or Tele) than it cause the strings to go out of tune and change pitch. One day my guitar teacher guru told me about how the guitar can be opened up in the back. Find a piece of wood that fits the bridges size and stick it in between the bridge and the guitar. It works very well, and I have no other complaints about the RG270 DX.
It is built very solid, nothing is ever a problem. Every piece of hardware on this is excellent. This is a quality guitar.
Excellent guitar all around, and if you hate floating bridges you can fix it and enjoy the guitar.
This review was originally published on http://www.musicgearreview.com