One Of Just 200 Joe Satriani Crystal Planet Guitars.
2000 Ibanez (Japan) Joe Satriani Y2K Crystal Planet Guitar (JS2K-PLT).
This 'Millenium' Limited Edition Joe Satriani Crystal Planet guitar weighs 10.50 lbs. One-piece 12 3/4 inch wide, 1 5/8 inch deep 'see-thru' acylic body, contoured on top and back. One-piece maple neck with a nut width of just under 1 11/16 inches, a scale length of 25 1/2 inches and a very fast thin profile. 'Slab' rosewood fretboard with 22 original medium-thin frets with silver dot position markers including nine inlaid abalone 'planets' on the twelfth fret. Silver colored acrylic veneer on 'futuristic-shaped' headstock with silk-screened "Ibanez" in white and "JS Series" in gold. Locking nut assembly and single-bar string retainer. On the back of the headstock is the limitation number "032-200" stamped in black. Individual Gotoh 'Rotomatic' tuners with octagonal metal buttons. Four-bolt neck plate with serial number "007097" in the center. Two DiMarzio uncovered humbuckers with outputs of 8.55k and 9.82k. Two controls (one volume, one tone) both with pull-push split-coil operation and a three-way pickup selector switch. Clear plastic barrel-shape "Speed" control knobs. Ibanez Floyd Rose Edge tailpiece assembly with six individual locking saddles and vibrato unit. This guitar is in mint, unplayed (9.50) condition. Complete with the original Ibanez 'acrylic' certificate of authenticity with serial number "032/200" etched in black, original hang-tag, instruction manual and various adjustment tools. Housed in the original Ibanez three-latch, rectangular black hardshell case with black leather ends and purple plush lining (9.25).
"Also for the Millenium, Ibanez created its limited-edition JS2K-PLT JS Series Crystal Planet, a tribute to guitar great Joe Satriani. For this guitar, even the pickup bobbins and wire insulation were see-thru. Estimates differ on how many of these were made. Sources at Hoshino say slightly fewer than 100 were made, but other knowledgeable sources put the total nearer 200; pick yer poison. Celluloid, Bakelite, and Lucite all had their shots at providing guitarists with an alternative to wood, though most were motivated more by manufacturing and/or sonic concerns than any scarcity of natural materials. However, there were more serious developments waiting in the wings and these were more directed at the fundamental problems." (Vintage Guitar Magazine, May 2005, p.60).
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way cooler than my 4 vintage guitars
i have a vintage 1988 epiphone/gibson lawsuit spotlight in the non locking trem version... got the non locking trem because the locking trems were horrible from what i herd. i also have a late 90's or early 200's unknown muscle car orange fender mexican strat with a orange pickguard and orange pacman style killswitch button. my third vintage is a 1978 ibanez pf 200 lawsuit black with a huge tune o matic ibanez style bridge with so much sustain its insane. last is a ibanez sa10 in a rare custom baby blue finish that was sanded and then hand painted in a crimson red a golden yellow and gold skulls and royal paint decals were added. i even have a ibanez team j craft js1000 but its not vintage and a js20s. even with these impressive guitars, i could never get my hands on a js guitar over 2500. this is so cool and if i ever get the money im going to get a chromeboy or a crystal planet js. its hard to find to find a js with the origonal chrome backplates because all the ones going for sale on ebay except for one is fake.