Rare Ibanez SC500N classical electric nylon string guitar.
Made in the Fuji-gen plant in Japan in 1997.
Guitar Info:
Your guitar was made at the
Fuji-gen Plant, Japan
in 1997
Production Number: 53613
– Specs –
Body: Mahogany
Top: Spruce (Bound)
Neck: Mahogany
Fretboard: Rosewood
Number of Frets: 22
Bridge: Mahogany
Inlays: Abalone
Pickup: In Bridge Piezo
String Type: Nylon
This guitar is in excellent conditions.
All electronics work and is completely playable.
There are few minimal cosmetic finish chips here and there that can be found on the body otherwise the guitar could be considered excellent/mint conditions.
Can be plugged into any smp, pedal, DAW, etc. configuration the same as an electric guitar.
The neck is great, very comfortable feeling.
Low action and easy access to the upper notes.
The body is quite thin, which gives it an incredible feel and low weight.
Features a piezo bridge pickup which requires a 9v battery (easy swap battery compartment on the back).
On the left side of the bridge there is a small piece of black adesive tape.
Comes with an hard case and a spare new battery box inside if you would like to change the used one in the back.
Recently, Polyphia guitarist Tim Henson got the chance to sit down with Revolver magazine to discuss his career, as well as other topics.
Among other things, Henson also looked back on his signature Ibanez nylon-string guitar that got into the spotlight.
However, as it turns out, Ibanez initially wasn’t really keen on doing this model.
Asked about his favorite guitar, Tim recalled getting ahold of an old obscure Ibanez model and how it inspired him to team up with the company for his signature guitar. He recalled:
“I was in Europe, in 2019, in a pawn shop and saw an Ibanez nylon electric guitar and I picked it up.
I thought, What the fuck is this thing? I texted Ibanez and they told me it was a discontinued, commercially unsuccessful model from 1998.
I bought it from the pawn shop and took it home.”
“And the inspiration was… A lot of times in rap, they’ll sample old classical guitar.
This way I can make my own samples and use them in beats or send them to producers.
I started making loops with it and was just like, ‘This is insane.’”
“So, I called Ibanez and said, ‘Hey, I want a signature of this.‘ And they’re like, ‘Well, you know, it really didn’t do well in 1998…‘ I was just like, ‘What the fuck!‘ So, we made ‘Playing God‘ and I sent it to them, and told them, ‘If you don’t make this guitar, some other brand will — and you’re going to lose out on a lot of fucking money.‘ Then they were like, ‘Oh shit, yeah let’s do it.‘”
The Ibanez model that Tim is talking about is the SC500N.
In the last photo of this auction you can see Tim playing this.
This one was heavily inspired by Ibanez’s S-style body for solid-body electric guitars. It’s a somewhat obscure piece and it was produced between 1997 and 2000
Built between 1997-1999.
These guitars are a hybrid between an electric and nylon string guitar.
Made with a solid body so there’s no feedback that is common with acoustics.
SC500N is based off the Ibanez “S Series” guitars which can be seen with their similar thin bodies.
Features a mahogany body with a bound spruce top bolted to a 25.1″ scale mahogany neck with a 22-fret rosewood fingerboard with binding and dot inlays. Other notable components include a rosewood bridge with under saddle piezo pickup.