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Help Identify This Ibanez Bass
- Thread starter Steve Heine
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Tap tested only so far. Trying to figure out what to do with it still
fwiw I've never seen an Ibanez with a spokewheel truss rod. It's not impossible the truss rod was replaced, but that would have been a pretty involved job. It would have been easier to reshape and paint the headstock.
If it plays well and sounds good, then it's a good instrument. Rock it and don't worry about where it came from.
If it plays well and sounds good, then it's a good instrument. Rock it and don't worry about where it came from.
devnulljp
Supporting Member
Only Ibanez headstock I know shaped like that is the BTB series. But the logo is wrong and the necks have always been 5+ piece.
That is definitely a Jolana Superstar body and pickups and definitely not a Superstar neck. The wrinkle in the “a” in Ibanez make me think that’s a waterslide decal someone added. It make be that it’s a different model Jolana neck and that’s why the paint matches.
This bass was offered on Polish eBay in 2016 as a Czech-made Jolana Superstar, with the amendment "has reworked a headstock and the inscription "Ibanez" varnished, as well as new tuning pegs" (Yandex translation).
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THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!! Cannot believe you found the actual bass.
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Thats really weird, its like a jazz body with a BTB neck? And some back-plate iv never seen. I have a strange feeling that its not a Ibanez. Dose it have a SN? or any other identifications. Its also weird how the back of the headstock looks like its been covered with something. Idk, looks off to me.
