Ibanez RGD61ALA-MTR

Arrived broken in sealed package

Bridge pickup's upper screw is broken in half. One half is left in the wood, second half got stuck to pickup's magnet. As a result, pickup from one side got stuck way up high and blocks 5th and 6th strings.

Neck pickup upper screw's head is destroyed and screw's hole plate is awfully scratched. Neck pickup can't be lowered.

And by the way, guitar's electronics don't even work.

Frets are scratched, some of them are not polished and in few places they started to rust.

Body is a bit dirty and has some micro scratches from final cleaning on factory (maybe?). Also, it is glossy black, so be prepared that it becomes dirty as soon as you touch it, but it's obvious for all glossy black guitars.

Is it Indonesian Ibanez quality right now? It's not an instrument, it should not have left the factory...

Fretboard's dark wood is nice. Body is black and glossy, which means it becomes dirty the second you touch it.

I had instruments from China, they were much better made than this 1k+ EUR thing. Also I had Amarok-7 that had visual flaws and a an intonation issue on last frets of 7th string, but apart from that, it was playable at least and costs 50% less.

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.