Ibanez AZ41B1-BKF

AZ41B1-BKF (Black Flat) Ibanez electric guitar, AZ Iron Label.

AZ - Players Player Project -
AZ is the result of several years of testing, with many of the world's best guitarists as test pilots, with the goal of producing the ultimate players player guitar. In other words, an extremely good-sounding, easy-to-play and stable instrument that you should be able to play basically all styles of music with. Roasted/baked maple necks to make them stable no matter how much you tour around the planet and wherever you play. Stainless steel frets to make them almost indestructible and feel smooth and well-polished no matter how much you play. A perfectly functioning bridge with an arm mount that doesn't loosen no matter how much you tear and pull on it. And all this with ?TON? written on the forehead, No specs in the world mean anything if it doesn't sound fantastically good, and this does, it sounds better than fantastic.

The AZ neck is a modern neck with what Ibanez calls an oval C profile. A 1-piece neck in roasted/baked maple. The wood is roasted in a vacuum oven which drives out all the liquid and resin from the wood, making it extremely stable if almost completely insensitive to weather and humidity.
Sound-wise, it makes the wood behave like old and dry wood, more resonant, sustaining and tonal.
This is the same roasted technology that has been on the market for a few years now (which differs from the S-TECH roasting that the Prestige versions have).
The guitar sings in a completely different way than the corresponding untreated wood and is several times more stable. The neck is finally treated with oil which gives the guitar a well-recorded wooden feel, forget about rocky varnish to stick to.

Neck profile
Ibanez calls the neck AZ oval C, which describes it quite accurately.
C with a little more shoulders would also fit well. It is noticeably thicker than how Ibanez usually has its necks, but for that reason not fat or bulky. 20.5mm at the first fret and 22.5 at the 12th fret. It feels modern and accessible at the same time as it feels traditional and familiar. The fretboard radius is a perfect compromise to be perfect for both chords and solo playing. The transition between the fretboard and the neck is softly rounded called ?rolled fretboard edges? which gives a very smooth and recorded feel.

The body
The body is designed to be comfortable and without sharp edges so that you can both stand or sit and play for hours on end. The rounding of the edges is softer on the back than on the front. The neck meets the body with Ibanez's new Super All Access Neck Joint, which is a further development of their well-proven All Access Neck Joint.
SAANJ makes the entire neck extremely accessible without having to twist too much wood and starting to negatively affect the tone.

DiMarzio Fusion Edge™ Pickups
The pickups are connected to a dyna-MIX 10 switch with an additional wAlter switch. It gives a lot of usable, believable, sounds from everything from humbucker to singlecoil.

Specs:
• AZ Oval C Roasted Maple neck
• 24 frets
• American Basswood body
• Ebony fretboard.
• Jumbo Stainless Steel frets
• Graph Tech® nut
• DiMarzio Fusion Edge (H) neck pickup
• DiMarzio Fusion Edge (H) bridge pickup
• dyna-MIX10 switching system w/Alter Switch
• F106 fixed bridge.
• Black hardware.
• Gotoh® MG-T locking machine heads
• Recommended bag: IGB540BK
• Recommended case: M300C

Neck:
• 648mm/25.5? scale length.
• Width at nut: 42mm.
• Width at 24th fret: 57mm.
• Thickness at first fret: 20.5mm.
• Thickness at 12 frets: 22.5mm.
• Radius: 305mmR