Steve Vai is a virtuoso guitarist, visionary composer, and consummate producer who sculpts musical sound with infinite creativity and technical mastery. At age 12, he started taking guitar lessons from Joe Satriani. At 18, he began his professional musical career transcribing for, and then playing with, the legendary Frank Zappa. More than three decades, 15-million in album sales, and three GRAMMY Awards later, Vai has proven himself, in his own right, one of music's true originals.
Vai's signature instrument, the Ibanez JEM guitar, was originally designed in 1985 with first-of-its-kind features including the floating tremolo and the monkey grip. The JEM is now one of the longest running, most successful signature series guitars in history.
The basswood body is finished in an eye-catching blue floral pattern that elegantly matches the Steve's signature Tree of Life inlay on the fretboard. The headstock is also matched with the floral pattern and the the pickup covers, knobs and pickup switch cap are all designed in a matching blue as well.
The Wizard 5pc Maple/Walnut neck is only 18mm at the 1st fret, built for speed and technically adept players, this neck will happily accommodate the more fleet-fingered guitarist. The fretboard is made from Maple and features a blue Tree of Life Inlay. The Wizard neck is paired with a Edge-Zero II tremolo bridge for great tuning stability.
Equipped with two DiMarzio® Gravity Storm™ humbucking pickups in the neck and bridge positions and a DiMarzio® Evolution® single coil in the middle, you can achieve a wide variety of tones using the 5-way selector switch. These pickups will give you the output needed to gain heavy styles of music, without loosing the nuance needed for more delicate playing.
Features
- Body: American Basswood
- Neck: Wizard 5pc Maple/Walnut w/KTS™ TITANIUM rods
- Fretboard: Maple w/Tree of Life inlay
- Jumbo frets
- Edge-Zero II tremolo bridge
- Neck pickup: DiMarzio® Gravity Storm™ (H) (Passive/Alnico)
- Middle pickup: DiMarzio® Evolution® (S) (Passive/Alnico)
- Bridge pickup: DiMarzio® Gravity Storm™ (H) (Passive/Alnico)
- Cosmo black hardware