The ICB500 is an ICB series (Iceman Bass) solid body electric bass model introduced by Ibanez in 1994. It was produced in Japan by FujiGen as part of the Standard line, but production moved to Korea in 1995.
The ICB500 features a mahogany body with decorative real pearl binding mated to a set-in laminated maple neck with a 22-fret bound rosewood fingerboard with abalone dot position markers and black side dots. Components include a pair of IBZ-DX4 passive pickups, a Accu-cast B-IV fixed bridge with 19mm string spacing, a plastic nut, Ibanez die-cast tuning machines and cosmo black hardware.
Only 200 or less were made for the Japanese market as a test run to see if they wanted to release the iceman guitars in bass form. These were not featured in the Ibanez catalog and may have been sold to test the waters before a full scale re-introduction was implemented.
The ICB300 is a similar model with basswood body missing the pearloid binding, bolted neck, different control knobs, pickup selector switch and wider.
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