Ibanez Guitars: The Ibanez Jem Story

Ibanez JEM

There are a lot of professional music artists who use Ibanez musical equipment and call it the best among the ones that they have used in their career. Ibanez is known worldwide for its professional line of guitars and among them is Ibanez JEM. Ibanez JEM is an electric guitar, which was first produced in the year 1987. This guitar has gained high level of acceptance from guitarists.

Ibanez JEM was designed by Ibanez and the guitar legend, Steve Vai. The Ibanez company asked Steve Vai to tell them of the different features that he likes in the guitar so that they can combine all those features in one guitar. Ibanez JEM is the concept of Steve Vai, which was given its physical form by Ibanez.

This model became his signature. With the passage of time, Ibanez has produced the sub-models of the Ibanez JEM. There are about four sub-models of the Ibanez JEM, which were produced on the anniversary of Ibanez JEM, which included JEM90HAM, JEM2KDNA, JEM20TH and JEM10.

JEM10

The model Ibanez JEM10 was produced in the year 1997 and this model has the letter of authenticity, which is hand signed by Steve Vai. It has an aluminum pickguard and has an engraved vine with the JEM10 serial number. There are only about 825 units of this model throughout the world.

Ibanez JEM10

JEM90HAM

The Ibanez JEM90HAM, which was made for the 90th anniversary of Hoshino was not much different than Ibanez JEM10. There are only 831 units available throughout the world out of which 72 are in US.

Ibanez JEM90 HAM

JEM2KDNA

This model was the most interesting that Steve put his blood to the mixture of the paint, hence the word DNA at the end.

Ibanez JEM2KDNA

JEM20TH

Another anniversary sub-model of Ibanez JEM was JEM20TH, which was completely made of clear plastic with multicolored streaks. This model also has a green LED that lights up inside the body.

Ibanez JEM20TH

The other models of JEM include the JEM7, JEM77, JEM777, JEM555, JEM333 and the Universe 7 string guitar.

Ibanez JEM7V