I Enjoy my Ibanez artcore AF75 and it was cheap and is a really nice instrument.
Here/s the catch, out of the box they need a good set up.
I leveled and polished frets, set into, and nut height, and now its a tight rig.
The rig in the pic is like less the trem.
You will get buzzes out of the bridge which is the common problem/issue on these. Trick is after set up to use clear nail polish on the adjustment bolts in the box after set up is finished. Or use the wooden bridge that was supplied in many of these.
Beauty of these rigs is strings effect the playability and tome so much, you can set these up with thick flat wounds and go for a jazz tone, or I run EB 10's and go for a more electric feel.
This is a rig that has potential for very little invenstment
Edit, you also have to watch that the plastic fretboard inlays are not coming loose. Very common but an easy fix.
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