1996 Ibanez GB100

**Max405** · 04-17-2016, 10:27 AM

Mike, outstanding NGD. I agree the shade of your guitar is second to none. What a beauty.
Have fun buddy.
Joe D

**BigMikeinNJ** · 04-17-2016, 12:14 PM

Well I tuned her up this morning. Like buying cuban cigars I like to give any guitar that has just traveled internationally (and domestically) a good day to rest and acclimate. So tuned this sweetheart up and test the action and then plugged it into the FUCHS ODS. Boy it's Sunday morning so I didn't play that loud or for that much but I can see it's possibilities. Boy can I ever...

I also put it in the my Mom's recliner for another cheesecake photo. LOL I need the bright afternoon sun beaming in on her to get her to shine.

**johnnyjazz** · 04-27-2016, 09:40 AM

Nice guitar, mine was bought in 01, played it a couple of times but has been in its case for 12 years.
I think the pick up switch nob on yours has been changed and you also have one of the lighter headstock veneers. 1996 Ibanez GB100-p1000072-jpg

I also think your bridge might be the wrong way around.

**Bebop Tom** · 04-27-2016, 11:30 AM

I hope you adjusted the bridge.

**Max405** · 04-27-2016, 01:26 PM

Boy that's a gorgeous guitar. My goodness.
JD

**johnnyjazz** · 04-27-2016, 01:45 PM

Originally Posted by Joe DeNisco

Boy that's a gorgeous guitar. My goodness.
JD

Thank you very much. Yes she has a nice flame, I prefer a larger body. One more pic to show the arch. John. 1996 Ibanez GB100-p1000071-jpg

**BigMikeinNJ** · 04-28-2016, 09:24 AM

Well it's nice to see my guitar back on the front page without me boosting it. As for the comments about the bridge being upside down, at an angle and the headstock veneer being "light" - well it's how I got the guitar sent to me. The bridge angle, that's a "trick" us older cats use when playing a guitar with a wooden bridge (and not a TOM). As for the veneer being "light", I don't have any to compare it to and catching the full beauty of the veneer inside or outside has been challenging. It's like when I showed the Reverb ad for the GB10 I found the day after I paid for the GB100, it's all camera, what light source you're working with and computer screens playing tricks on the eyes.A bunch of cats thought the GB10 looked orange... (rolls eyes). I love it and today I have all my legal stuff done, been to see the banker and lawyer and am just waiting for wheels to turn. So I might actually get a chance to play some without this other "stuff" on my mind. In the Red Zone and hoping to do an end around on the last big plays. Will be really nice being legally single and free. Maybe some of you can relate.

Big

**Max405** · 04-30-2016, 08:11 AM

Big mike,
i am glad life is going good for you.
I am dying to hear more about the GB. Now that things are stabile for me too, I wished you still lived in NJ!
then I'd have to come down and see for myself..
tell us more big mike.

Joe D

**BigMikeinNJ** · 04-30-2016, 10:31 AM

Nothing stoping you from coming to River Forest, heck I have a couple nicely furnished guest rooms.
Been getting myself in MORE trouble. LOL. Been on a acoustic (non arch top) spree. Most especially B.C. Rich acoustics. Most of you guys know B.C. Rich as that company that makes the weird shaped solid bodies the poodle headed metal bands use. Few know that Bernardo Caesar Rico Sr. started making acoustics, yeah back in the 60s he was making Martin influenced dreads, mostly with the stash of still legal Brazilian Rosewood he had. I first bought a later 70s BC Rich BW100, it's solid Indian Rosewood (killer too) and solid spruce top. THEN I found another great one, it was priced very well for what it is so got it too, Both are enroute. The B-38 is from the Summer of Love (1968) and really very nice. I think the BW100 will be my porch guitar... The fun never stops, I gotta find spots in closets for all these babies. LOL !!

Big

BW100

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Below some shots of the late 60s BC Rich (senior) B-38

**Max405** · 04-30-2016, 11:27 AM

I never knew that Mike. That's cool. The Brazilian is amazing. Looks like cocobolo.
Wow.
Have fun big friend.
Joe D

**BigMikeinNJ** · 04-30-2016, 11:49 AM

I just learned about the BC Rich acoustics myself a few weeks ago, was on eBay looking for an older Alvarez Mairi solid Jacaranda and the BC Rich popped up on the "what other buyers are looking at" and then looked more and hit Reverb and found a few. Usually the B-38s sell for around 5k, the BW-100s are not easy to find at all. Ibanez, BC Rich and Tama had some very high end dreads commissioned at Matsumoto in the late 70s. Eventually Ibanez called theirs the Artwoods, they're pretty sweet. Here's a video of a guy playing the heck out of a Tama TG120.

And here's a cat playing a BC Rich B-38

**citizenk74** · 04-30-2016, 03:40 PM

Big Mike, that is some spectacular rosewood. Those pieces are Exhibit A in the absurdity of the guitar industry vis-a-vis purely black ebony. It is criminal, IMHO, that so much ebony has been left to rot on the forest floor, with the additional effect of over-harvesting this threatened species (rant over).
Beautiful guitars, Mike. Play them in good health!

**Cunamara** · 04-30-2016, 04:10 PM

Congratulations, Mike! Hey, shouldn't that be BigMikeinIL now?

I've had my GB10nt for 30 years and have a soft spot for these. What a beauty!

And congratulations on the new home in River Forest. Nice place- I grew up in Elmhurst not too far from there, have a good college buddy who is from RF and still lives near there. Gladness that things are better for you than they were in NJ!

**BigMikeinNJ** · 05-01-2016, 11:09 AM

i learned a lot in the last 48 hours about BC Rich acoustics.
sidetrack: for a while in the 70s Tama of drum fame also built guitars, in the late 70s they put out the TG range of acoustics. Ibanez teamed up with them, and Bernie Rico Jr. Also (junior and senior had a disagreement) got in and had a batch built wusing their unique headstock shape and inlays. All solid wood guitars. Then after a good run Tama decided to get out of guitar making all together.

heres the spec sheet for Tamas, Ibanez started using someone else, likely Fujigen or Makusmoto and did laminated version from then on. BC Rich (junior) went on the make this poodle boy guitars

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**videorov** · 02-26-2017, 09:39 PM

Yes I like those GB-100 too. See lots of them in Japan but not here. The new 40th GB Flame Top is coming any day but its $4000

and I don't think they have the deep color flame like this.
Maybe someday I will find one of these deep Flame GB-100 too.
Like to hear it on Youtube sometime.