The MRG8 is an RG series solid body electric guitar model introduced by Ibanez in 2008. It was made in Japan by FujiGen as part of the high end J Custom line. It was a spot model which was sold exclusively by musical instrument retailer Kurosawa Gakki in Japan.
The MRG8 features a flamed maple top on a chambered mahogany body bolted to a maple and walnut Super Wizard neck with a 24-fret dark rosewood fingerboard with flame maple binding and abalone dot position markers. Components include DiMarzio pickups mounted in a white pearloid pickguard with a pair of humbuckers flanking a single-coil, an Edge Zero double locking tremolo bridge with a removable ZPS3 tuning stabilizer and Gotoh tuning machines.
The MRG9 and MRG10 were released concurrently. The MRG8 was offered only in 2008 with a total of 48 examples produced.
