GuitarBizarre

preference is fine, i know the metal guitars aren't for everyone. I've never bagged on Dave for loving his fenders or anything like that, its just you tend to actively discourage people based on your own and you do so by stating your opinion as if its an incontrovertible fact rather than accepting the preferences of other players as valid.

If you had reasonable evidence then that would be fine, but as we've just seen, you were in fact mistaken on the one piece of hard evidence you presented, seeing as the thing you used initially and most prominently (And quite bitterly in fact) to back your opinion of ibanez as a company wasn't ibanez in the slightest.

You were also mistaken on a number of other bits of information I corrected previously, such as the USA custom shop. I'm aware I'm the resident Ibanez freak, and I'm aware I have a dislike of gibson to match (Although backed up by considerable evidence), but I'm more than willing to accept a better guitar for someone is a better guitar, such as in the case of daves love for fenders and matons which I would never play myself. i'm just trying to broaden the scope of this guys search because I know that a lot of traditional guitar companys offer the tone but not the ergonomics, and ibanez have tended to offer both to me.

Now can we check this and leave it at the door? You have almost a latent hostility towards ibanez purely because you aren't enamoured with their guitars, and by proxy towards me for defneding them as a company who are very good at offering specific things to specific people.

I don't come to this forum to engage in arguments about personal preference with someone less informed on the subject at hand than myself, and who is clearly pushing an agenda all their own rather than actually trying to help. We've derailed this thread long enough purely for the sake of me clearing the air of a few pieces of misinformation.

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