Steve Vai is a virtuoso guitarist, visionary composer, and consummate producer who sculpts musical sound with infinite creativity and technical mastery. Vai's signature instruments include the Ibanez JEM guitar, which he designed in 1985 with first-of-its-kind features including the floating tremolo and the monkey grip. The JEM is now one of the longest-running, most successful signature series guitars in history, and for over a decade its sister model-the RG-is second in worldwide sales only to the Fender Stratocaster.
"After almost 35 years of the JEM, although the JEM is still in production and will perhaps be for many years to come, we felt it was time to introduce a new signature guitar that is somewhat of an evolution of the JEM, The PIA. Ibanez and myself could not be more pleased with the way this fine instrument has turned out." - Steve Vai.
Specifications:
- Body Material: Alder
- Body Finish: Gloss
- Neck Type: PIA
- Fretboard Material: Rosewood
- Fretboard Radius: 430mmR
- Scale Length: 648mm/25.5"
- No. of Frets: 24
- Fretboard Inlays: PIA Blossom
- Pickup(s): DiMarzio® UtoPIA™ (H) Passive/Ceramic - Neck, DiMarzio® UtoPIA™ (S) Passive/Alnico - Middle, DiMarzio® UtoPIA™ (H) Passive/Ceramic - Bridge
- Strings: D'Addario® EXL120 .009-.042
- Tuning Machines: Gotoh®
- Hardware Finish: Gold
- Case: Hardshell
