Full Description

Unique Body & Limited Edition Finish

This stunning limited edition model from the Steve Vai range features a mahogany body accompanied by a maple neck and rosewood fingerboard, offering high-quality tonewoods with an eye-catching grain. A signature 'monkey grip' is incorporated into the guitar's design and adds to its unique appearance. The JEM Junior is given a finish inspired by the desert sun yellow finish of Steve Via's JEM777 30th Anniversary model.

Angled Headstock & Wizard III Neck

The use of Ibanez's own Wizard III neck provides an extremely playable performance optimised for lead guitarists. The thin nature of the neck helps perform swift and nimble guitar runs seamlessly whilst retaining enough substance to ensure a thick and full resonance when playing rhythm patterns and chords. The angled headstock not only provides a stylish appearance, but also offers better string pressure. By increasing the pressure on the strings, it helps them stay in the nut slots and decreases loss of string vibration between the nut and the tuners, offering better sustain and smooth playability.

Infinity HSH Pickups

Steve Via’s limited-edition JEM Junior is equipped with classic Infinity pickups, which the original JEM junior featured before being replaced by a set of Quantum pickups. In the bridge position is an Infinity 2 Humbucker, offering rich, driving leads with an enhanced midrange and excellent dynamics. An Infinity 1 Humbucker is set in the neck position and deliver a versatile, responsive tonality, providing articulate rhythm sections which retain clarity and offer extra tightness when overdriven. Set in the middle is the infinity Single 1 single-coil, designed to work with the humbuckers in split mode and enhance the tone with classic characteristics.

Steve Vai

Steve Vai is an American guitarist, composer, singer, and songwriter primarily known for his collaboration with Frank Zappa. A three time Grammy award winner and fifteen-time nominee, Vai started his impressive career at a young age and is considered as a 'highly individualistic player.' Vai has worked with Ibanez for many years since the launch of the JEM guitar, which he co-designed.

About Ibanez

Over the past 30 years, Ibanez Guitars have always been at the forefront of developing the right tools for electric guitar players pushing the boundaries of music. For decades, Ibanez designers and luthiers have been the embodiment of this ideology, pushing their skills to the edge of imagination, consistently creating some of the most versatile and unique instruments ever. Although Ibanez guitars have been made since 1908, it wasn't until the late 1980s that they began to form an identity for themselves when artists such as Steve Vai and Frank Zappa began using their instruments. Now with a huge artist clientele across the globe, Ibanez are a leading manufacturer of electric guitars and basses and a first choice for many dedicated musicians.

Specification

Body & Bridge

• Body: Mahogany
• Bridge: Standard Double Locking Tremolo
• Construction: Bolt-On
• Finish: Yellow

Neck & Fingerboard

• Neck: Maple
• Profile: Wizard III
• Scale: 25.5''
• Fingerboard: Rosewood
• Radius: 400mmR
• Frets: 24 Jumbo
• Inlays: Tree Of Life
• Nut: Locking
• Nut Width: 43mm

Electronics & Hardware

• Bridge Pickup: Infinity 2 Humbucker (Passive/Ceramic)
• Middle Pickup: Infinity Single 1 Single-Coil (Passive/Ceramic)
• Neck Pickup: Infinity 1 Humbucker (Passive/Ceramic)
• Controls: Master Volume, Master Tone, 5-Way Selector
• Machine Heads: Die-Cast
• Control Knobs: Hat
• Pickguard: 3-Ply Black/White/Black
• Hardware: Cosmo Black
• String Gauges: .009/.011/.016/.024/.032/.042
• Case Included: No