Ibanez SML721-MAM

SML721-MAM (Midnight Arctic Ocean Matte) Electric Guitar, Multi-scale. S Axe Design Lab.

Multi Scale is what it sounds like, simply that each string has a different scale / gauge, longer on the low / thick strings and shorter on the high / thin ones.

Ibanez was the first to build Multi Scale, Fanned Frets, or whatever you want to call this amazing invention, on instruments that are not custom ordered boutique instruments (but a price tag after that).
With multi scale, you get an instrument that feels and plays completely balanced across the entire register, the ultimate compromise between two conflicting goals.

The Multi Scale also has the advantage of being extremely comfortable and ergonomic to play, it's simply great for the hands. They follow the natural angle of the hand depending on where on the neck you play. The break-in time, the time to get used to playing with it, is zero. The hands adapt instantly without any problems whatsoever. The eyes take a little longer to get used to it, maybe 15 minutes or so.

Instead of opting for a traditional angled bridge, Ibanez has used a technique they have successfully used on their basses for many years called mono-rail bridge. In simple terms, this means that each string is a stable, stables that are completely separated from each other. This provides optimal isolation of each string and the strings can vibrate without affecting and inhibiting each other.

Specs:
- Wizard 5pc Maple/Walnut neck.
- 648mm/25,5‘ at 6th string, 635mm/25’ at 1st string.
- Nyatoh body.
- Rosewood fretboard w/White Step off-set dot inlay.
- Luminescent side dit inlay.
- Jumbo Stainless Steel frets.
- Mono-rail bridge.
- Q58 (H) neck pickup.
- Q58 (H) bridge pickup.
- dyna-MIX10 switcing system w/Alter switch.
- Gold hardware.
- Gotoh® MG-T Locking machine heads.
Matching case: M300C.
Fitting bag: IGB540BK.

Neck:
- Scale : 648mm/25.5‘ - 635mm/25’.
- Width 43mm at nut.
- Width 58mm at 24F.
- Thickness 19mm at 1F.
- Thickness 21mm at 12F.
- Radius : 400mmR.