Ibanez JEMJR SP Honest Review Steve Vai Guitar

In Canada's Long & Mcquade, this coloured knob version has been discontinued. Instead of it, the current version does not provide the yellow color and the knobs are the same colour as the pickguard.

R u serious about no frets buzzing? I m intended to buy jrsp.

I had one and it was crap. There was so much wrong with it I could have bought an RG with how much it would cost to put it right. Each to their own though.

$500 or $5000 why does a guitar need a “monkey grip”?

Great review and playing. I used to have a lot of Jems, including the originals with pyramid inlays. They're all gone. I now have a few Jacksons and ESPs. Thinking about this one but I'd have to swap the pickups and add a Floyd later on....if I get it.

This guitar is great for the money. The pickups are the weak part though but for the price they are decent. This guitar is around 500-600€/$ add your fav pickups and maybe a heavier tremolo further down the road and you got yourself a guitar that plays and sounds better than double it's cost. My conspiracy theory is that they are going to stop manufacturing this guitar since it is to cheap.
A reseller told me that they can not order the yellow JEMJR anymore since Ibanez stopped making it =( And at least in my country I see all the colours getting sold out and no new ones coming in.

Do you have a video for setting up the guitar? Thank you for the video.

Damn, Joe! You are an awesome finger picker and what a great review! I'll be picking up a Jr within the next few weeks. 🤘🏻

I just got mine :) Cannot wait!

I got one. I wish I had this guitar when I started to learn. It would have been a shortcut. Really easy to play and worth more than 500$

Thanks for the review. If I may ask, which model would you recommend (in the same type of Ibanez guitar) if I could double my budget.

Dude, you're my favorite guitar reviewer, and I don't even play Ibanez.

It is a great guitar. Swap out the bridge for a gotoh 1996t with Floyd Rose studs. Just makes it a pro instrument at that point.

😋 'Promosm'

They should of done it the desert sun yellow

Best review and brilliant playing and a sexy guitar ❤❤❤❤❤

I have this guitar.
Same color.
I changed the control colors to the same 'slime' green.
👍
I wish the pickups were a brighter pink.

Nice video.

I totally agree. I'm a bit of a Jem-a-holic and own a range of the Japanese and Indonesian models. So, I think I'm in an equally good posiitition to make a direct comparison. I've owned 2 Jem Jrs. I still own one. The other was gifted to my youngest Son and is still giving good service (& taking lots of abuse!). Both the Jrs I have had were the White variant. Same guitar but different (Quantum vs Infinity) pickups. I like the Quantums. Build quality (fit/finish, paint, fretwork etc.) was impeccable on both. I'd actually say better in some critical areas than that on some of my Japanese models. I have heard a few horror stories with the Jrs though, so the QC may be variable and maybe I was just lucky with mine.

Overall, I think they are a fine guitar and an excellent modding platform. The weak point is the Tremolo. Poor quality metals are used and it will be the first thing to give tuning stability issues. It depends on how much of a Trem abuser you are. One thing I did with Jr #1 was to replace the stock (thin, Zinc) Trem block with a fatter Brass block. It increased the sustain by approx. 50%. Way better than my Japanese models, in fact. A cheap upgrade and well worth doing. Softer springs increase the sensitivity of the Trem action too.

The prior owner of my current Jr upgraded the Trem to a Gotoh GE1996T and this is a far, far better Trem. I've only owned this particular Jr for a few months but It has become my daily player. Much to the displeasure of my Jem70V which had been my daily player for almost a decade.

I've been a fan of your Guitar reviews/comparisons for some time. Your JS100 vs JS1000 video is one of my favourites - and, again, is spot on. As I discovered for myself after buying a JS24P and more recently a JS2410. There are minor differences but certainly not enough to justify the large price difference. Keep up the great work on your channel!

550 x (currency conversion) = wowww

Cheap is subjective. Hahhaa... Hopefully I can say it's cheap one day.

500 hundred bucks for a guitar is not cheap