Ibanez TC420

Black finish with white pearl pickguard and chrome hardware. two chrome covered hummers and a double action tremelo bridge. tinted maple neck w/rosewood board. 22 frets. cool ass retro body style almost exactly like a jazzmaster. decent tuners, but they will be replaced soon by locking tuners.

I wanted one of these ever since I saw one 4 years ago in a store because they look awesome. When I found out that one of my favorite guitarists (Noodles from the Offspring) is a big fan of these guitars, I wanted one even more. Finally got one about 2 months ago, I snagged one from the AMS scratch and dent list. I wasn't expecting to find it since they'd been discontinued and was expecting it to be kinda funky looking (being scratch and dent) but apparently it was just new old stock that had been sitting around for a couple years because it looked brand new. Anyway, onto the sound. I was disappointed at the output of the pickups. I was expecting a little more punch but oh well. I'll switch 'em out for some dimarzios pretty soon and that should make it much better. However, if you turn the tone knob all the way down it gets a groovy stoner rock tone the reminds me of Fu Manchu.

This was the part I was worried about when I bought the guitar. I knew it had a tremelo on it and I don't dig them too much so I was hoping I could fix it to not have it be a problem. I was able to do just that. The original set up of the bridge was double action (pull-push) and that sucks for rhythm because it's damn near impossible to palm mute one a bridge like that. Plus, it came with *cringe* 9's on it and when I put a set of DR 11's on it pulled the bridge way up. To solve this I simply took it to Guitar Center and had two more springs put on it and tightened the claw a bit. now the back of the bridge sits flush with the body of the guitar. this makes it much easier to play heavy palm muted stuff on this guitar.

My experience with Ibanez guitars is that they can take a beating and still sound great. I have another Ibanez electric (hot rodded GAX70) and it's been beat all to hell for the last three years and still tears ass. I expect this guitar to last a long time.

never dealt directly with Ibanez. I do all the work on my guitars myself or take them to a tech if I can't figure it out.

Good looking, solid guitar. right now it's mainly a practice ax, but I'll probably put it into stage rotation as soon as I replace those pickups. I'm very impressed with Ibanez guitars. For the price and quality, they're unbeatable.

Made in Korea, basswood body I believe. Volume, tone control, 3-way pickup switch. H/H pickup configuration. Stock pickups I think are Super 59s. Floyd-roselike bridge. Rosewood neck, medium frets. Body style is a cross between a Fender jaguar/mustang/strat. I got mini in a really pretty mettallic blue/green color. Nothing sticks out in features, just your standard for an electric guitar so I'll give it an 8.

Well, seriously, when I first bought this guitar, I admittingly purchased it because of it's beautiful looks. Damm, when I first saw it hanging there in the guitar store, I couldn't believe my eyes. It was the perfect cross of all the guitars that I like (jaguar, strat). Plus, i like the two humbucker configuration which was something that I was lacking at the time (my only other guitar is a single-coiled Fender Jaguar). Anyways, I immediately plugged it into a Mesa-boogie amp and tested it out. The sound was nice. Very nice humbucker sound. I didn't get to really test it out too well, but for a price of $250, I couldn't resist. Anyways, upon taking it home and testing it some more, I didn't quite like the sound. I guess it was initially because I wasn't too used to the humbucking sound, which is more fuller, bassier than a single-coil. But still, I knew it was a little more than that. Somehow, it sounded a little flat, dull, muddy, and just too tame from what I thought a humbucking guitar would sound like. The clean sound was actually a little too muddy for my taste, and with distortion, it didn't give that crunch that I wanted from a humbucker. Ah well I thought, it looks damm nice though. So for the next couple months I played my Jaguar more often than this guitar. However, when the time presented itself, I decided to swap out the stock pickups for some Seymour duncans. I put a 59 in the neck, and a JB in the bridge. I also put in a push/pull tone knob so I could split the JB. Well when I took it home and plugged it in, WOW! what a huge difference good pickups makes. This is my first time dealing with swapping out pickups, and I must say, it was WELL worth it. Huge difference in sound. First off, the sound is much brighter to my tastes. Not single-coil bright, but a nice, middy, evenly balanced, and full responsive bright for the bridge pickup. And for the neck, beautiful vintage tone. I especially like using both pickups while the JB is split. It give a really cool dry, sound good for rough, ska-like tones. Anyways, just this modification made a huge difference. And with distortion, I found harmonics jumping out all over the place, and sustain and tone that just didn't exist with the stock pickups. Needless to say, it didn't sound tame to me anymore, but had so much more drive to it. Geez, this is starting to sound like a review for pickups or something. Anyways, before the mod, i'd give it a 7 but after, a good 10 for your humbucking tones.

Factory setup was good. Absolutely flawless and beautiful finish. Decent hardware and wiring.

This is the funny part. Well the biggest reason that I didn't play this guitar as much when I first got it was because of an incident I had with my girlfriend (now-ex) that involved this guitar. During a argument with my girlfriend, she got all crazy and stuff and grabbed this guitar (which was sitting on its guitar stand) and slammed it into the ground, stepped on it, and the went on kicking my fender jaguar. sucks doesn't it?? Afterward, I inspected this guitar and noticed no noticable damage, that is until i played it. I noticed, to my horror that the rosewood fretboard, from the nut all the way to the 3rd fret, was separated from the alder(i think) neck. Strange cause it was really only slammed from its guitar stand onto a padded, carpeted floor. Not dropped from a two story building or anything. Maybe it was just that, or maybe the guitar wasn't built too properly. Who knows?

Well, I took it back after a long delay, and with a little good convincing and some good lying (hehe, the warranty doesn't cover damages that are done purposely to the guitar) I got it fixed with no charge. You can't even tell the demise that this guitar has been through now.

After getting it fixed, I got those pickups put in it, and this is probably my main guitar now. That is maybe until I get my Jaguar fixed. That guitar has some serious adjustments needed on it. My only gripe now is the bridge. Its way too flimsy and NEEDS to be blocked. I just need to get off me ass and take it into a tech to get that done. I seriously don't know why the bridge is like that. When you bend a string, you effectively detune all your strings at the same time cause of that wierd floyd-rose assembly. But it's cool, you can do divebombs and stuff. Also, because of this problem, this guitar has serious problems staying in tune. Pretty annoying. But hell that can all be fixed. I also want to get a nice graphite nut put into it to replace the existing one. It's cool though. I love this guitar, and I consider it my poormans PRS. I'm determined to make it a kick-ass guitar playing wise, cause looks-wise, it kicks-ass! I imagine once I get all the kinks worked out, this guitar will be and easy 10.

I believe this is a 1997, made in Korea. It has 22 medium frets on a maple neck with a rosewood fingerboard. The neck is sort of Strat-like. The body is solid basswood and is sort of like a Fender Jaguar, or Tornado (or whatever that new one is called). It's a double cutaway and is slightly offset. The pick guard is white pealroid. This model has two Super 58 pickups which are chrome covered. They are selectable by a three way switch. The finish is metallic red. It had a Strat-like floating tremelo. Tuners are somewhat cheap, but functional. Mine came with a hard case and a hex wrench.

I like the sound of this guitar. I play metal and the likes and it suits me fine. It doesn't look like a metal guitar, but it works fine with the rights amps and effects. I used it through a Sovtek Mig 60 and a little Crate practice amp. It sounds pretty full. The stock pickups are pretty good although the bridge pick up feeds back horribly at high gain settings. I use a Tube Screamer, Cry Baby, Big Muff and Boss delay, flange and chorus and they all sound pretty good through this guitar. I am very happy with this guitar. I did replace the bridge pickup with a Gibson Tony Iommi pickup today haha and it made a huge difference (see reviews of that pickup). Feed back was gone. Using both neck and bridge pickups together sounds great. You can hear more of a difference rather than when using two Super 58s. Back to the subject, as is, I will rated the sound on original configuration.

Well, I lowered the bridge so that it doesn't move anymore. I lowered the mounting posts and tightened the springs. In turn I had to adjust the action etc. But it was pretty nicely setup when I got it. The finish is a real eye catcher. The bright metallic red and the pearloid pickguard with chrome is flashy, but not tacky. I fell in love with the looks of this guitar the minute I saw it. One of the saddles had a ding in it that caused my strings to snap a lot, but I took it back and they gave me a new saddle. There was a small crease that can be seen at certain angles where the two pieces of wood are glued together, but it doesn't concern me that much. Pickup selector switch is a bit noisy. Chrome knobs a nice touch. I like them a lot.

This thing seems pretty tough. I've had it for 4 years and it has yet to fail me. When I opened it today to install the new pickup, all of the solder joints looked secure. Hardware is good. The finish is great. Beautiful and well done. I'm careful with my gear, but it's hit corners of desks and such and i finally got my first ding in it this year and boy was I pissed. I'd replace the strap buttons with locks, but I would do that on any guitar just to be safe. The hardware is still just as shiney as ever. I actually have a TC630 as a backup/second guitar. I love me some Talmans.

The warrenty is one year. I hear that Ibanez customer supports is bad. If their web page is any indication, I'm not surprised. My warrenty is over so I'd take it somewhere else anyway.

I've been playing about 5 years now. I had a Squire Strat and was in the market for something new. I was going to get a Standard Strat, but this caught my eye and I was hooked. I had seen an ad in Guitar World but the picture didn't do this justice. Like I said earlier, I also own a TC630 with three lipstick pickups which I may get around to reviewing. I really like the feel of this guitar. I don't have the best guitar playing fingers, but the neck is a good size for my hands. I like the different look it has. Sort of like the guitars I mentioned, but with a touch more class. The only thing I would ask for is a true fixed bridge, not a tremelo. Overall, I love this guitar. If it was lost or stolen I would cry. They don't make these anymore. I'm pretty sure this specific one (TC420, metallic red) was only made for a year. I would definately try to find another one. Change that bridge pickup and you are golden.

I think this is a 98 model with 22 frets. It's a laminated top that was korean made. There's a three-way selector switch with a H/H pickup configuration. The pickups are ibanez made super 58's with passive electronics. Maple neck, basswood body, and rosewood fret board. The body style looks kind of like a fender jag. The bridge has a floating vibrato system with a string thru block on it that i don't really use. I wanted something with a tune-o-matic bridge or a stop tailpeice but the price was right and I got everything I wanted except that. Came with a cable and the case and a few tools. The neck is thin with medium frets.

I play punk and hard demented stuff like limp bizkit and korn. So far, this guitar has done everything I've asked it to do. It's sounded clean and jazzy in church to down and dirty when i'm playin with my band. This thing is simply amazing. I've been playing guitar for four years and the only thing i've heard that sounds better than this guitar is a les paul. I play through a vintage rat distortion pedal and a crate gfx212 amp. The sound in the neck position is a clean sound that i could use for jazz if i ever got into that. I've had no problems yet with the sounds. I love the bridge pickup. This guitar has shown me that it can sing like an angel or scream like a demon.

I had some problems with this guitar at first. But once i got it set up to play, it's been the best guitar i've ever purchased. The nut was messed up and i had to have a new one installed. But other than those problems, it's been great. I have it set up with a really low action so i can pull down chords quick and easy. THe finish is flawless. It's a finely crafted instrument.

I used to have a fender jazzmaster which i used as my main guitar with a fender strat and an ibanez artist as my backups. I picked this up with the notion of replacing the strat, But it soon became my main guitar. The hardware has been built to last. I've banged it up on a few occasions and where the strat would have been trashed, this guitar has come back for more. I do a lot of thrashing and it has never fallen off once. The finish has withstood all i've put it through so far and i've probably played thirty or forty gigs with it. I can depned on this thing like i would depend on an oak tree in a storm. It's solid and it's not going to break. I have used it as my only guitar. I've only broken strings on a few occasions and that's the only live probalems i've had with it.

I've never had to deal with ibanez. But they seem like just another big corporation. I get it fixed at my local music store and at my tech's house. It's still under the warranty but i wouldn't send it in unless osmething drastic happend to it. The warratny is for a year.

I've been playin for four years and i've owned a fender strat, a jazz master, and an ibanez artist. This guitar has put them all on the shelf. There is really nothing i've wished i've asked before i bought this guitar. I've gotten much more than what i wanted out of this guitar. If this guitar were stolen or lost i would definetley buy it again and probably track down the guy who stole it and smash my fender strat over his head. I love the shape, the sound, the thin neck, pretty much everything about it. Although, i do hate the bridge. I wish it was a stable one instead of the floating one that came with it. I'm probably gonna get it blocked off. My favorite feature is the thin neck radius which makes this guitar an ease to play. I don't know what the other guys that reviewed this guitar were talkin about cause this is one excellent guitar. Ibanez has outdone themselves once again. I'm getting a seven string soon, but i'll probably still use this as my main guitar.

Very cheap bolt on, I'm guessing plywood body. Trem, 3-way switch, I think the p/u's were humbuckers but they fedback an awful lot. Pretty descent grover tuners. Way too thin of a neck

Horrible, I've never owned a guitar that fedback this badly. Played it through a number of amps, it always sounded bad. Not much of a sound difference between neck and bridge p/u. I play rock and alternative and I'm still puzzled by what kind of music this guitar is good for.

This was about the worst factory set up I've ever seen. I spent about 2-3 hours setting this thing up so it was playable (and I've set up a lot of guitars). Finish was black with a white pick guard, finish was very thin and cheap. I had to block the trem/bridge to keep it in tune. Swtching p/u's with selector switch was a noisy process.

I got rid of this guitar after 6 months, I would never take it on stage unless we were going to be doing tribute to the Shaggs. I would trust Bill Clinton more than I would trust this guitar.

Didn't own it long enough to find out, I bought it because I saw Westerberg playing one, obviously his was a custom job because there is no way e would ahve taken this guitar on stage.

I'm sure there are worse guitars out there other than this one, I've yet to find it. Don't be sucked into buying one of these because you see one of your favorite bands playing one in a video, the guitars in videos aren't plugged in. I also know for a fact that the lage act bands that do play these live are also playing custom jobs and not shelf models. If you can't tell I hated this guitar, the only good thing about it is the palce I bought it from gave me a good trade in dollar towards another guitar