Ibanez AS73 Artcore Hollow Body, Trans Cherry Red Overview
The Ibanez AF75FM Artcore features linden body, bound laurel fretboard, block inlays, medium frets, ART-1 bridge, Classic Elite pickups and chrome hardware.
The Ibanez AS is a semi-acoustic guitar built to tackle just about any genre of music you throw at it. The pickups are mounted into a sustain block for increased sustain and feedback elimination.
Ibanez introduced Artcore in 2002 and has been the hollow-body guitar of choice for musicians for the last 10 years. The Artcore's combination of quality workmanship and affordability has created legions of fans from diverse genres as blues, country, rock and jazz. Musicians can find the purity of an old school style jazz-box to a hybrid semi-hollow rocker. Artcore is highly respected for its tone, sustain and the way they hold their tuning and how the series continues to push the boundaries of guitar building.
- Neck Type: AS Artcore/Nyatoh/Set-in neck
- Top/Back/Sides: Linden
- Fretboard: Bound Laurel fretboard/Acrylic block inlay
- Fret: Medium frets
- Number of Frets: 22
- Bridge: ART-1 bridge
- String Space: 10.4mm
- Tailpiece: Quik Change III
- Neck Pickup: Classic Elite (H) neck pickupPassive/Ceramic
- Bridge Pickup: Classic Elite (H) bridge pickupPassive/Ceramic
- Factory Tuning: 1E,2B,3G,4D,5A,6E
- String Gauge: .010/.013/.017/.030/.042/.052
- Nut: Plastic
- Hardware Colour: Chrome
