I bought this second hand guitar for 300 euros (332 US dolars) around 2007. I have only seen one exactly the same (with the rosewood neck and DiMarzio V7/S1/V8 pickups) on the internet. Its serial number is F304150 (year 1993; factory: FujiGen Gakki, Nagano).
Is it a RG 550, RG 560, RG570, or a Roadstar RG 550? Why are there so few? If you had to sell it, how much would you ask for?
Best regards from Barcelona, Spain.
It's impossible to identify from a single photo, but we can rule out a few of the options you threw out. An RG560 and RG570 would not have pickguards and the RG560 would have a single coil pickup at the neck.
Most RG550s would have a maple fretboard. There were some made with rosewood boards, but mostly that practice stopped around '91. That said, Ibanez has always made a few exceptions over the years.
Another possibility is that this could be either an RG570 to which someone has attached a pickguard (a pic of the rear would tell the story) or an RG550 with a neck from another model. It could also be something like an RG450 in a non-stock color or that's been refinished.
If you can share some more, high quality photos, we might be able to tell you more.
Hello. I just added the new pictures, :-)
The neck joint gives this one away as an RG450. An RG550 would have a tilt joint or All Access Neck Joint.
