Ibanez SA260FM-TGB

Electric Guitar

Body: Mahogany
Top: Flamed maple, with white binding
One-piece neck: Maple
Fretboard: Jatoba, with binding
22 Medium frets
Scale: 648 mm
Nut width: 42 mm
Pickups: 2 Resolution single coils and 1 Quantum humbuckers
5-way switch
1 volume and 1 tone knob
T102 tremolo
Colour: Transparent Grey Burst

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Item number 430447

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Colour Black

Body Mahogany

Top Maple

Neck Maple

Fretboard Jatoba

Frets 22

Scale 648 mm

Pickups HSS

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Good starter guitar

MyNicknameMustBeAtLeastFiveCharactersLong 16.11.2021

There is not much you can say about SA260FM. It is typical low-end Ibanez electric guitar.

It is nicely finished, with good, bright sound from the wood (which is a bit of surprise, as the back is mahogany).
The single coil pickups are good, with proper bite and sparkle. Humbucker is rather muddy.

After some tweaking with setup, this is very affordable entry-level guitar. It’s “Made in China”, but it is still Ibanez, so the quality is there.

The worst part of it is the tremolo bridge. Better than on previous iterations of this model, but still built with low quality materials.

Just for test I replaced the tremolo with Gotoh 510 (37 mm block) and swapped the pickups for spare HSS set of Kinmans.
Oh my, I know I raised the price by 250 Euro, but this guitar started to play.

SUMMARY
Good choice for the first guitar. Very versatile. Ibanez. Leaves lot of space for further customization (if wanted). Needs some initial set-up and intonation.

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Niall M 26.12.2018

i bought this primarily for practice and gigs, so everything really. This guitar isn't too expensive, but it's solid and has a big array of sounds, hence it fits the bill - an all-rounder. For perspective, i have an 80's USA strat which i treat like an ornament.

beautifully finished, ergonomically perfect (for me), and many diverse sounds from this guitar - the new resolution single coils are very good, as is the new tremolo, worth bypassing the older sa series for this newer stuff imo. jatoba feels fine, lets see how it holds up after a few years of use; it actually feels smother than rosewood?

for what i paid this is great value, highly recommend to an intermediate player, and delivered in the blink of an eye, thanks Thomann.

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Better than I expected it to be

Oldboy_gr1 22.04.2021

I bought it because I needed a versatile guitar to cover a variety of genres with my cover band.

I was not disappointed. This guitar can cover almost everything with pristine cleans and smooth bluesy tones with the single coils and powerful distorted sound with the humbucker. I would like it to have a little less hot humbucker but it is not bad.

The flamed maple top looks amazing and the quality is better than what I would expect from its price point.

Seems to be holding tune very well even if you play with the tremolo.

I just had to do a quick adjustment of its setup to lower the action. The intonation was perfectly setup.

I am completely satisfied with the guitar.

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disappointment

ta.1088 16.02.2022

will get out of tune every single time you use the Whammy Bar

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