Hello everyone !

For trade/sale this extremely rare collector piece. An Ibanez Artfield AFD-45. Less than 100pcs ever made.

it comes with an original Ibanez case which has been completely rebuild to fit this particular guitar in.

Also comes with all the original docs, which are extremely rare, and also its trem bar.

ALL ORIGINAL except the strap lock pins.

TRADES?: YES, but only for some IBANEZ JEM / PIA models. PM if you're interested in tradding.

HISTORY:

The Artfield series (or AFD series) is a line of solid body electric guitars produced by Iida Gakki and sold under the Ibanez brand. The Artfield models were introduced in 1988 and a total of ten models were produced before the series was sunset after 1989. They were offered for sale only in Europe.

"the concept was to incorporate the finest hand-picked woods — bubinga, wenge, maple and mahogany — and design a series of guitars that would use these fine materials to their best advantage. We didn't stop there. Combining the most advanced technology in the guitar industry with meticulous craftsmanship, the ARTFIELD line offers the player an unusually fine series of instruments to satisfy the most discriminating guitarist

The AFD45's body shape is a non-symmetrical, sculpted, offset double-cutaway design with rounded shoulders and a short pointed lower horn with a deep cutaway and a much longer pointed upper horn. The profile shows that the entire body has an arch shape. The overall shape is somewhat reminiscent of the Maxxas series body

The AFD45 has a bubinga body bolted to a mahogany and maple neck with a 30-fret rosewood fingerboard with small dot position markers. The fretboard is beveled past the 24th fret, so only the upper strings are accessible up to the 30th fret. Components include three Ultrasonic single-coil pickups (made by Bill Lawrence) with two set directly adjacent to one another at the bridge and the third set apart at the neck, an HQ synchronized tremolo bridge and Gotoh locking tuning machines.

The AFD40/45 was designed primarily by Iida Gakki's in-house designer, a Mr. Suzuki, in collaboration with Mr. Katoh. It is somewhat visually similar to the shape of the Soundgear series basses with a highly asymmetric sculpted body with a pronounced upper horn and a much smaller lower horn to allow access all the way up to the 30th fret.

The AFD45 features a novel electronics setup with a pair of single-coil pickups mounted adjacent to each other in place of the standard bridge humbucker and a complex control layout including a 6-way rotary control for series and parallel pickup combinations and a mid-boost toggle.

MORE INFORMATION AND SOURCE:

ibanez.fandom.com/wiki/AFD45

ibanez.fandom.com/wiki/Artfield_series