Ibanez ARZ6UC Artist Prestige, Black Flat Overview
The Ibanez ARZ6UC is an Artist series solid body electric guitar model introduced by Ibanez in mid-2014. It was among the initial offerings in the Prestige Uppercut line which feature English-made Bare Knuckle pickups and are made in Japan by FujiGen.
The ARZ6UC features a single cutaway archtop mahogany body with a maple top mated with a set-in maple and mahogany neck with a smooth heel with a 24-fret ebony fingerboard with binding and no inlays. Components include dual Bare Knuckle Nailbomb humbucking pickups with individual volume controls, a Tight Tune fixed bridge and tailpiece, and Gotoh locking tuners.
- Body type: Solid body
- Body material: Mahogany with maple top
- Neck joint: Set-in with smooth heel
- Bridge: Tight Tune fixed
- Tailpiece: Tight Tune
- Hardware colour: Cosmo black
- Neck type: ARZ Prestige
- Neck material: 3-piece mahogany/maple
- Scale length: 638mm/25.1in
- Fingerboard material: Ebony with binding
- Frets: 24 jumbo (Prestige edge treatment)
- Nut: Graph Tech Black TUSQ XL
- Machine heads: Gotoh SG381 MG-T locking
- Pickup configuration: HH
- Bridge pickup: Bare Knuckle Nailbomb (H) passive/alnico
- Neck pickup: Bare Knuckle Nailbomb (H) passive/alnico
- Controls: 2 volume / 1 tone / 3-way toggle
- String gauge (factory): .010–.046
- Factory tuning: 1D 2A 3F 4C 5B 6D ("D")
