Ibanez Jet King 2 JTK2 2004 - Brown Sunburst

This is an Ibanez Jet King II (JTK2) in the Brown Sunburst (or 'Brownburst') finish. Ibanez's off-set nod to the pawn shop guitar that Jimi Hendrix once played, it's most well-known for being the guitar of choice for Omar Rodríguez-López during The Mars Volta's earliest days.

I purchased this guitar used from Reverb in 2020. It's still in very condition. It's almost 20 years old so, there are some small signs of wear: a scratch on the neck pickup cover, some pick marks on the upper pickguard and on the back, a little surface rash, and a small scratch. There's a small dent on the top of the body and the neck screws have oxidized, but it's otherwise beautiful.

This guitar is a lot of fun to play. It's heavy and has a neck that feels like playing half a baseball bat, but that's part of its charm. It has great natural sustain, and can really roar when you dig in. The neck is clean and plays great, and the pickups sound great with a lot of versatility from individual switches that split the humbuckers. You can get from a full-sounding humbucker to a Fender wide-range humbucker to Strat-type single coil sounds mixing the pickups and splits.

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More about the Ibanez Jet King 2:

The JTK2 is a Jet King series solid body electric guitar model introduced by Ibanez in 2004. It was produced in Indonesia.

The JTK2 was the second model in the Jet King series, which were an homage to the "pawnshop" copy guitars from the 1960s[1] (the type which Ibanez, among others, sold).

The JTK2 features a mahogany body with a split pickguard bolted to a maple neck with a rosewood fingerboard with offset triangle position markers. Components include dual Ibanez humbucking pickups and the Full Tune III fixed bridge. Controls include master volume and tone pots a 3-way pickup selector toggle and a pair of seesaw style rocker switches for coil splitting the pickups. Similar switches were also used on the sixties "pawnshop" guitars, although in those guitars they were most often employed as on-off switches for the pickups instead.

The body shape of the JTK2 is different than its predecessor, the JTK1. It is an asymmetric shape with offset rounded horns which resembles the Fender offset guitars such as the Jazzmaster or the Jaguar. Going forward, this body shape was used for all the other models in the series.