One of a Kind Ibanez USA Custom Shop

This was ordered from an Ibanez dealer, assembled in the USA Custom Shop. It was somebody's dream guitar, and it MIGHT be the only one like it in the world.

RG body with rounded horns
22 fret Wizard neck
Rosewood fingerboard w/ cats eye inlays
Original Edge trem and Top lock
IBZUSA C2 x2 and F2 DiMarzio pickups
Purple Sparkle finish with THICK clear coat
1990 Japanese serial number and US neck plate

On the back of the neck, there is a "H&S" stamp. It led me to the following information:

With their newfound experience, Ibanez USA set it's sights on loftier goals. They would soon open their "Custom Shop" to customers worldwide. As before, the bodies for these guitars came from Hoshino in Japan. Customers would order their guitar from Ibanez dealers, and Ibanez USA's "custom shop" would build it to their specification. This time however, the bodies came from Japan with only the bridge Humbucker body route. H&S would route each body per order, which allowed any pickup configuration with the use of DiMarzio pickups of your choice. Various neck options were available to customers, including choice of fretboard wood, inlays, neck binding and an optional reversed headstock.
In addition H&S would make available some spectacular graphics and finishes on their guitars. Three artists were used to paint the guitars: Dan Lawrence, Pamelina H. and Pedro Cruz, with perhaps one additional artist.
These folks contributed to create the entire graphic series models of Ibanez guitars, a production feat that is perhaps unmatched today.

Goin' to California
By early 1990, H&S eventually moved it's production out of Bensalem, PA. They headed west, taking their moving vans and equipment all the way across the States to their destination in California. In conjunction with the relocation, it was decided that H&S would be split into two separate locations. One shop was to be used exclusively for Ibanez endorsed artists, the other to product the "USA Custom" Ibanez guitars for the public who ordered them. The endorser shop was established on Case Ave. in North Hollywood. The customer H&S Custom Shop opened it's doors about 10 blocks north.

That's what we have here. Top shelf Ibanez- and maybe the only one like it!

The neck has some dings and scratches, but no cracks. The body is 99% clean with a couple of tiny spots on the back of the both horns. They didn't show up in the picture. I can try again if you need to see.

I had a luthier reset the trem posts, as they were leaning. No other alterations have been made.

Ships with trem bar and hard shell case.