1982 Ibanez AM50 Artist MIJ

Summary: This 1982 Ibanez AM50 features a compact, semi-hollow, double cutaway body design with an arched, laminated maple top with ƒ holes and ivory binding on maple back and sides with a maple center block mated to a set-in maple neck with a 22-fret rosewood fingerboard with ivory binding and pearloid dot position markers. Humbucking pickups mounted in plastic pickup rings with chrome covers and individual volume and tone controls, a Tune-o-matic style Gibraltar II bridge with a Quik Change II tailpiece, a bone nut, and Ping machine heads.

Body: Laminated maple top with ƒ holes and ivory binding, maple back and sides in Sunburst finish.

Neck: Maple with a Rosewood fingerboard, 24.75” scale length, 1.69” nut width, 22 frets, pearloid dot inlays.

Pickups/Hardware: Super 58 pickups humbucking pickups, individual volume and tone controls, a Tune-o-matic style Gibraltar II bridge with a Quik Change II tailpiece, a bone nut, and replacement Ping tuners.


Cosmetics: This guitar is in great shape. It has light surface scratches and small indentations on the body. The back of the neck is clean, and the frets show minimal wear. The back has light buckle rash. Overall, this guitar plays very well and sounds fantastic.

Playability: Our in-house guitar tech has inspected, setup, and restrung this instrument with a new set of strings. The neck is straight, the truss rod is fully functional, and the action has been setup low and comfortable. The frets are in great shape with no major grooves or divots from use and it plays beautifully up and down the fretboard with no dead spots or choking out.

Weight: 7.2 lbs.

Case: This guitar ships in the original hard-shell case, professionally packaged, and fully insured.