Buy A Used Ibanez

2000 Model. It's a 24-fret Japanese made rocker. 1 Volume and 1 tone. V8 humbucker in the bridge, S1 single coil in the middle, and a V7 humbucker in the neck. These pickups are passive so they have an actual life to them. The body is the Ibanez standard, Basswood. Great sounding wood, very warm, and expressive. The neck is a 4 piece Wizard neck (maple, rosewood, bubinga, and the headstock is a seperate piece of maple.) with the bubinga reinforcement strip in the back. It has a black/grey-metallic sparkle finish with a hint of dark blue. Comes equipped with the original Ibanez Edge tremolo. standard tuners, 25.5 inch scale neck, extremely thin (almost too thin sometimes).

Suits my music style beautifully. I use a boss metal zone sometimes but usually run it straight into my marshall JCM 800 2204 half stack. It's not really noisy. good sound with the neck pickup but the bridge humbucker has got to go. I'm gonna put in my Dimarzio Tone Zone (now there's some pretty fat sounds I can hear already). Can be very versatile with your playing style if you're a good player who can adapt to different guitars. Still wish it had better pickups.

Ibanez also has some excellent beginner guitar packs as well that include everything that you need.