Product: Ibanez AW20CE
Price Paid: UNKNOWN
Submitted
05/26/2009
at
06:54am
by
diberg1
Features
:
7
Solid top, maple back and sides. Built in electronics
Sound
:
No Opinion
Has great sound with new strings. Replaced saddle with Tusc.
Action, Fit, & Finish
:
No Opinion
Purchased used on E-Bay. Great guitar for the money. Honey finish.
Reliability/Durability
:
No Opinion
Have had no problems. Sounds great plugged in.
Customer Support
:
No Opinion
No dealings with Ibanez
Overall Rating
:
No Opinion
Would definitely replace with another.
Product: Ibanez AW20CE
Price Paid: USD 325
Submitted
12/18/2008
at
02:44am
by
Craig Foster
Email: dirtbagboy at gmail<dot>com
Features
:
8
I didnt see a review for this particular model just its lower version (aw20) which does not have a cutaway- or electronics like this model does.
guitar is in a nice Glossed Honey sunburst (looks pretty nice for low price). Solid sitka spruce top,rosewood fretboard,mahogany neck, maple sides and back.
havent seen many of these around, especially now that ibanez moved on to other models
Sound
:
8
Nice and loud thanks to the full wood body, the guitar will slowly sound a bit better over time thanks to the spruce top (mine has grown on me). Its a more of a cheaper martin sound, with nice low tones, the high pitched notes dont come through too bad though it has a nice resonance throughout. At first i didnt like it because my tatses we consumed by a REALLY cheap dingy dean acoustic, but i came to realize that this wood guitar was 10X better.
It really likes fresh strings to make it hit those higher notes, sometiemes its loud full sound will drown out those high notes if your strings are too shot.
I would put this one up against lower seagulls/takamines and maybe even lower martins. HOWEVER !!! Make sure you go play it first, a friend of mine had a guitar almost identical and it just didnt have the same full sound as mine (most all wood guitar models have duds out there)
Action, Fit, & Finish
:
9
The guitar is actually pleasing to the eyes, everything was in order, the tuners arent bad, pretty smooth.. but once again not the same quality as a higher seagull/martin and such (but then again its about half as much money)
The guitar is comfortable to play, the action is pretty good and was really nice right from factory, I have gone to the local guitar store to have it set up/cleaned/taken care of though.
Reliability/Durability
:
9
Ive had it about 3 years now with no problems, no wear on finish or chips and ive actually probally put it through more than i should have with bad temperatue (boardwalks, beaches, snowy weather :( its my knock around acoustic guitar) But its been faithful thus far.
If your using its electronics for gigging though, watch out! eats those 9 volts up.
Customer Support
:
No Opinion
Honestly never had to try their support so i couldent give you any advice here.
Overall Rating
:
8
Overall really a good guitar for the price, if i were doing a Money to quality ratio i would give it a ten. But since im trying to be unbiased in comparision to some other guitars i give it a total of 8.
Im pretty sure you can snag these models for about 200$ maybe even cheaper now now, if you can find one that is, ive only seen its cheaper counter part with no electronics/cutaway. I guess you could use this as a base reference for the new artwood(aw) models though.
