Ibanez Guitar Identification

Help on guitar identification?

I have an Ibanez strat with a floyd rose. It says “Ibanez Roadstar II series” on the headstock. It is a creamy white with a black pickguard, and it has a 5-way switch and a volume/control knob. There is an open-coil humbucker at the bridge, and two slanted single coils above it which say, “Select-designed by EMG”(these might be custom). It was bought secondhand for $299. Any help on specifically which model this is?

P.S. it has chrome hardware and 22 frets (dots), if that helps.

Hello there,

Like the headstock says, you have a Ibanez Roadstar II. The Roadstar II followed the Roadstar. The Roadstar II was made in the late 80s. It has a 22 fret neck with a 25 1/2 inch scale (typical of Fender and Ibanez). The humbucker in the bridge may be original. The EMG Selects are not. Those have been added. They are passive single coil pickups EMG made for various guitar makers, or were made by the guitar makers using the EMG design and specifications ( I was never sure which).

I have not seen a Roadstar II for a while. They were pretty decent playing guitars back in the 80s. The Roadstar series later became the RG (Roadstar Guitar) series. That is one of Ibanez better lines of standard production guitars.

Later,

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