Ibanez Wiki
Ibanez Wiki
Advertisement
1974 Artist 2616-NT
2616 Natural (more images) Red copyright sprite

The 2616 is an Artist series hollow body electric guitar model introduced by Ibanez for 1973. It was produced in Japan. It's visually similar to Gibson's ES-175 model.

The 2616 features a single florentine cutaway hollow body design with an arched curly maple top with ƒ holes and pearloid binding on curly maple back and sides mated to a set-in one-piece hard laminated maple neck with an open-book headstock design and a 22-fret rosewood fingerboard with binding and fancy pearloid position markers with black side dots. Components include a pair of gold Super 70 humbucking pickup's, a Tune-o-matic bridge with a T-bar trapeze tailpiece, a bone nut, a black pickguard, top hat knobs and gold plated smooth tuner individual machines heads.

The 2616 was discontinued after 1977.

Specifications[]

Related content: Artist series | Models-icon
Specifications for 2616
Model name: 2616
Year(s) offered: 1973-1977
Sold in: Europe / USA
Made in: Japan
Price: MSRP: DM 855 "1974" / DM 1,070 "1976"
Finish(es): Cherry Sunburst (CS) / Natural (NT)
Body
Body type:
Hollow body
Body size:
41"
Dimensions:
  Length: 508mm / 20"
  Width: 16"
  Depth: 3⅜"
Top:
  Material: Arched curly maple
  Finish: laminated
  Binding: pearloid
Back/sides:
  Material: Curly maple
  Strip inlay: fancy trimm
  Finish: laminated
Neck joint:
Set-in
Bridge:
Tune-o-matic (10.4mm string spacing)
Tailpiece:
T-bar trapeze
Pickguard:
Black
Knob style:
Top hat (black w/ silver top)
Hardware color:
Gold
Neck
Neck material:
1-piece maple hard laminated
Scale length:
628mm/ 24¾"
Fingerboard material:
Rosewood w/ binding
Fingerboard inlays:
Fancy pearloid position markers w/ black side dots
Frets:
20 / medium nickel silver
Nut:
Bone (43.5mm)
Machine heads:
Smoot-Tuner (gold individual)
Electronics/ Strings
Pickup configuration:
HH
Bridge pickup:
Super 70 bridge (H)
Neck pickup:
Super 70 neck (H)
Controls:
Two volumes / two tones / 3-way toggle pickup selector
Output jack:
¼" stereo box (side mounted)
Factory tuning:
1E,2B,3G,4D,5A,6E (E Std.)

Images[]

Available finishes
Ibanez 2616-CS
Cherry Sunburst
Additional details
Ibanez 2616-CS rear
Cherry Sunburst (rear)
Ibanez 2616-NT rear
Natural (rear)

Sources[]

Advertisement