1999 Ibanez RG7CST

Condition

This one's in incredibly good shape, considering that both myself and the prior owner actually played it - of the four or so I've seen, this is possibly the cleanest. There's not even much in the way of polishing swirls on this one - in fact, in all but direct sunlight or a camera flash, the top looks like a mirror, and even the control cavity covers on the back are scratch-free.

As far as marks, there's only a handful. There's a matchhead-sized white dot in the clear with a point about an inch or so away that the prior owner tells me was from when a trem bar was dropped on it. It cracks, but does not go through, the clear. Also, there's what appears to be a ding in the finish slightly above the trem cavity that was touched up with something black and then cleared over - I'm guessing this was noticed and corrected at the factory before they cleared the body. I tried to get it to show up in a photo but couldn't - once again, it's about the size of a match head. Also visible in the imperfections pic is a slight indent slightly behind the first two marks I mentioned. I'm not sure what caused this, as it was there when I purchased it myself, but the clear is intact and it's probably a hair over 2mm long. Additionally, there is a small amount of light, light pimpling visible on the bass side of the trem that I was unable to get clearly in a picture. At a glance from two feet back, there's about three dots visible; a closer inspection shows about as many more. I'll keep trying to get them on film and update if/when I do.

I still want to give this a fretboard clean, but I'm waiting until I do a restring. Aside from that and the above mentioned imperfections, well, I've seen new guitars in worse shape than this. Fretwork is clean, and takes a LOW action (I've got it maybe 2.5mm on the B at the moment, but I've had it down to 1.5-ish. I just can't get under the strings to bend when they're that low). Call it a solid 9 out of 10.