RGD61ALA-MTR : Indonesia QC. All you need to know.

While it sounds great, it's built to a laughable standard. There are old 90's Korean RG370's that feel and play like a J.Custom when put up next to this.

I've had a GIO that was better that was made in China.

Frets needed leveling, the nut was slotted poorly and for 10-46 strings... on a 26.5 scale (why?!).

Side dots glow in the dark, besides the 15th fret that had its dot smashed at the factory, because that's how I got it out of the box.

Guitar came unplayable above the 9th fret. I would have returned, but in my stupidity I didn't get to really test it fully until about two months after receiving it (mostly just didn't have time).

Pickups are Fishman, if you played a guitar with them, you know how it sounds. There's a coil split switch, which is nice, not that usable since the frets were probably installed by a child, uneven, some higher on one side and lower on the other.

The whole thing is also very heavy.

I gave this a chance after getting an AM93 which is also from Indonesia and that one besides the nut was flawless. But with me having some really dodgy experiences in the past with the Premium line which is lipstick on a pig quality, the Axion Label line sealed the fate of all Indonesian Ibanez products for me.

Never again!

They will tell you "it's just as good as the Japanese". No! It isn't! It's worst than the Chinese!

Stay away from this guitar, it's not worth the money, and really not worth paying a tech to fix issues that should have never slipped through QC.

I ended up selling it shortly after paying 300$ to a professional to fix everything that was wrong with it.