I still love the Ibanez RGs.
I ordered an offset Duo-Sonic at the back end of last month and the dealer thought it might take three or four days to come in. Over the course of the last five weeks, they haven't received a single Fender guitar or accessory. There's a new EU restriction in place on the import of rosewood - it was announced mid-2016 and brought into effect in February this year. From the sound of it, Fender haven't got their act together to confirm their CITES license so can't import anything with a rosewood board to Europe. They have kept shipping them though - so everything is getting seized by Customs - including non-rosewood guitars / accessories in the same packages.
Other companies seem to be in the same situation - so there are tens of thousands of guitars held at the UK border with no suggestion of when they might ever be released.
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Wednesday, 28 June 2017 11:49 (six years ago) link
I've just seen that Fender will now manufacture most of their guitars with pau ferro rather than rosewood - so goodness knows when they might be ready.
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Wednesday, 28 June 2017 11:53 (six years ago) link
Of course, having finished typing, i got a call that it had arrived.
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Wednesday, 28 June 2017 12:13 (six years ago) link
Yeah, the CITES thing is global. The stores that were sending used Japanese Fender and Gibson copies to the American market got stuck for quite a while unable to ship.
― El Tuomasbot (milo z), Wednesday, 28 June 2017 15:49 (six years ago) link
Love the RG series and this marketing copy: "Three decades of metal have forged this high-performance machine"
― calstars, Wednesday, 28 June 2017 16:04 (six years ago) link
http://www.musiciansfriend.com/guitars/ibanez-rg-prestige-series-rg652kfx-electric-guitar
― calstars, Wednesday, 28 June 2017 16:09 (six years ago) link