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The AR700 is an Artist series solid body electric guitar model introduced by Ibanez in 1998.
The AR700 features a double cutaway mahogany Artist body with an arched maple top with binding mated to a set-in maple neck with a 22-fret rosewood fingerboard with binding and abalone dot position markers. Components include a pair of Ibanez humbucking pickups with gold covers and individual volume and tone controls, a Tune-o-matic style Gibraltar II bridge with a Quik Change II tailpiece, a bone nut.
The European catalog lists the pickups as Ibanez V7 & V8 while the US catalog has them as Super 58s.
The AR2000 is a related Prestige model with a flamed maple top.
American country music artist Coy Bowles owns an AR700 which he purchased as a young man. He uses the guitar, which he calls "Ibee" (pronounced EYE-bee), as his primary slide guitar on stage.[1]
The AR700 was discontinued after only a single year of production.
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- ↑ Ibanez Artist "Ibee", Coy Bowles (artist website), accessed 2023-11-14
- ↑ 1998 USA price list (p. 3)
- AR700 product page, Ibanez USA, archived May 1998
- 1998 Europe catalog (p. 26)
- 1998 USA catalog (pp. 20–21)
