Product: Ibanez PF300CENT
Price Paid: USD 250
Submitted
03/18/2009
at
01:36pm
by
Tony
Features
:
10
This review is for an Ibanez PF300CENT, which is part of the performance line.
Features are excellent and definitely well designed for live performance. The pickup and amplification system is crystal clear, well-balanced and well-designed. The jack has been drilled into the bottom of the body cavity.
It is solidly built with a quality finish and binding along the neck and top. Also has a cutaway for access to higher frets which many players demand. In short, it has everything a live player could want.
Sound
:
10
Very rich and well balanced, and sounds very full and deep when amplified.
Action, Fit, & Finish
:
10
Frets, nut, neck set up and bridge set up are perfect.
Reliability/Durability
:
No Opinion
Has held up extremely well for over 5 years.
Customer Support
:
No Opinion
Overall Rating
:
10
This guitar is no longer made and it's a shame. I have had this guitar for over 5 years and it gets better and better with age. It's build is very solid and high quality, with binding along the edge of the neck and top. It has a cut out for access to the high frets and a pickup and amplification system that sounds crystal clear and amazing through an acoustic amp (I've got it going through a Genz Benz). This guitar is built for live use and the jack has been placed on the bottom of the body cavity.
Over the years there have proven to be absolutely no design or manufacturing flaws with this guitar - the neck is straight as an arrow, and there is zero bough by the bridge despite years of keeping tune, frets and nut are perfect. This guitar was originally a modestly priced guitar, one of the first wave to come out of Ibanez's plant in China, which is why it is so amazing to report that it has stood the test of time in my collection alongside a Martin, a Takamine and a Gibson. I definitely recommend getting one if you can find one.
