Ibanez AZ41P1PB-TGB

AZ42P1PB-TGB (Transparent Gray Burst) Ibanez electric guitar, AZ Premium.

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 Premium 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.

Seymour Duncan® Hyperion™ Pickups
Hyperion is a pickup developed in collaboration with Marciela "MJ" Juarez at Seymour Duncan. A girl who has been Employee no.2 as Seymour's right-hand man since 1976. She has made pickups for Eddie Van Halen, Jeff Beck, David Gimour, Slash, Joe Bonamassa, just to name a few.
A pickup with moderate output and Alnico5 magnets. A clear, dynamic pickup with good separation and a clear pick attack. Very good balance between the strings so low tones are clear and high tones warm and full. Pickups are connected on a dyna-MIX 10 switch with an extra w/Alter switch. It gives a lot of useful, credible sounds from everything from humbucker to singlecoil.

The Ibanez T1502 Tremolo
Bridge is a further development of the GOTOH 510, one of the world's most popular non-locking bridges. Ibanez thought "is this the best there is or can it be improved?", and it did. The T1502 is based on the 510 and built by GOTOH, a modern 2 pivot style with lockable studs. The updates include a better, and completely play-free, arm mount (snap in with adjustable pressure. The arm can be replaced with an Ibanez Ultra Lite swingarm).
The T1502 has the same string spacing as the 510 narrow, 10.5mm isf 10.8mm.

Specs:
• AZ Oval C Roasted Maple neck
• 24 frets
• Poplar Burl top /American Basswood body
• Rosewood fretboard w/Mother of Pearl dot inlay
• Jumbo Stainless Steel frets
• Graph Tech® nut
• Seymour Duncan® Hyperion™ (H) neck pickup
• Seymour Duncan® Hyperion™ (H) bridge pickup
• dyna-MIX10 switching system w/Alter Switch
• Gotoh® T1502 tremolo bridge
• Gold hardware
• Gotoh® MG-T locking machine heads
• Luminescent side dot inlay
• Gig bag included
• Recommended case: MR500C

Neck:
• 648mm/25.5? menses.
• Width at saddle: 42mm.
• Width at 24 bands: 57mm.
• Thickness at first band: 20.5mm.
• Thickness at 12 bands: 22.5mm.
• Radius: 305mmR