I've never seen it selling for a better price. If that's you and you want what is arguably the best bang for the buck price where a metal guitar is concerned, you want this Ibanez. I don't play metal these days, but I do recognize there are plenty of metal guitar players out there. If there was any guitar that easily holds the title of "precision metal machine", this RG is it. You get the double-locking tremolo system. For 6-string guitar, HH PU, there is no pickguard material between the neck.
Our review guitar was finished in a decidedly ’80s iridescent yellow, but it’s also offered in iridescent pink, just in case you need to really assert. You will notice that the Ibanez RG pickguards shown below are very similar. You get the 15.75" fingerboard radius on a maple fingerboard. The RG1XXV’s body is shaped from American basswood and weighs in at a comfortable 7.85 pounds, which fits the RG series’ reputation for being lightweight. This RG on the other hand has every feature those old guitars did for less than half the cost and you still get all the goodies. I remember seeing guitars like this in the '80s and early '90s made by Ibanez that sold for high dollars, with a few even edging into 4-figure territory. That alone makes this guitar such a steal because you are absolutely getting more than your money's worth. The above is an Ibanez RG Series RG450MB in yellow, and the first thing to know about it is that a guitar like this back in the '80s would have easily sold for more than double its current listed price.
Unless noted below these models also have a basswood body, maple fretboard, a double locking tremolo bridge and. All of these models share several basic traits: RG-style body and pickguard-mounted pickups in a humbucker/ single-coil/ humbucker configuration. Not my kind of guitar, but it has a few things other guitar players would really like. The RG550 model name has been applied to several distinct RG series guitar models.