Winners Ibanez JEM Junior Steve Vai, White

Experience boundless Passion and Warfare with the Ibanez JEM Junior Steve Vai. Meticulously crafted to the exacting standards of the legendary guitar player, Steve Vai, this guitar is a masterpiece of design and performance. Embrace Vai's iconic aesthetic touches, including the ergonomic 'monkey grip' body handle and dazzling 'tree of life' fretboard inlay.

Vai's original JEM played a pivotal role in popularizing the locking tremolo system in the 1980s, and the JEM Junior continues the tradition with its double-locking trem bridge, allowing you to dive-bomb with precision and enjoy rock-solid tuning.

In this striking white JEMJR model, you'll find an upgraded Ibanez Quantum HSH pickup set that delivers a versatile sonic palette. From liquid lead licks to powerful powerchord punches, these pickups complement the supple Jatoba fretboard, providing a detailed, high-end response with a rich midrange.

The JEM Jr's Wizard III maple neck is purpose-built for speed and designed with virtuosos like Vai and Joe Satriani in mind. Together, these features create a guitar that's built to ignite your playing with lightning-fast capabilities. No Real Illusions here – the JEM Junior is a truly Flex-Able guitar that captivates your ears and eyes alike.

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.

Quantum Pickups

Steve Vai’s Signature guitar features a set of Quantum pickups in a HSH configuration, providing a wide range of tonal possibilities to suit different musical styles. In the neck and bridge positions are Quantum humbuckers, with both offering full, clean tones while the bridge has a higher output and an excellent dynamic response. The middle pickup is a Quantum single coil, providing warm tones with a strong punch and a clean treble response.

Steve Vai

Steve Vai is an American guitarist, composer, singer, 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 Guitars

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.

Specifications

Body & Bridge

• Product Code: JEMJR-WH
• Body: Mahogany
• Bridge: Double Locking Tremolo
• Construction: Bolt-On
• Finish: White

Neck & Fingerboard

• Neck: Maple
• Profile: Wizard III
• Scale Length: 25.5’’
• Fingerboard: Jatoba
• Radius: 400mm
• Frets: 24 Jumbo
• Inlays: Tree-of-Life
• Nut: Locking
• Nut Width: 43mm

Electronics & Hardware

• Bridge Pickup: Quantum Humbucker (Passive/Ceramic)
• Middle Pickup: Quantum Single-Coil (Passive/Alnico)
• Neck Pickup: Quantum Humbucker (Passive/Ceramic)
• Controls: Volume, Tone, 5-Way Pickup Selector
• Hardware: Cosmo Black
• Case Included: No