Open Box Ibanez RG8 8-String Electric Guitar Level 1 White

Picked this guitar up earlier today and it's an amazing instrument especially for the price. Definitely worth it for me. Only thing wrong with it to me is that the frets slightly go over the fretboard, and may feel weird if you are playing it, but other than that there is nothing wrong with it and I would definitely buy it again.

Superb fit and finish. Frets ends are nicely finished, No finger snagging traversing the neck. The pickups even though ceramics sound great. You might want to consider thicker bass strings. I find the factory ones okay for me but they may be a little light for you.

Had around $650 set aside to pick up a 7 or 8 string guitar about three years ago, so I drove to the each of the five music stores in Atlanta, three of which were Guitar Centers. I played around a dozen different 7s and 8s, some being in the $1150 range (Axion Label), and the absolute cheapest being a used RG8 in white. I was most impressed by the RG8; it had the lowest action, the most rigid neck joint, the cleanest fret edges, and a proper scale length despite its lack of fanned frets. I've since used only the RG8 on song covers that originally were composed on piano, like this cover of Liberi Fatali from Final Fantasy VIII, linked below. Amp sound came from a combination of the Fractal AX8 and Archetype: Gojira. A Schecter Blackjack was used for a couple of the leads, but most everything is the RG8. I've also been pleased with the stock pickup sound and have not opted to change them out. Out of all my guitars, the RG8 is the only one that has maintained its comfort and action height for the last couple years without needing a setup. Aside from the lowest string, which I've tuned as low as Eb, everything stays in tune very well. I have no complaints. The RG design is the best out there.

Just decided to grab an 8 string on a whim and tgis was an inexpensive entry model. Its solidly built. Has great tone but needs a pickup upgrade. Not desperately, but its not gonna be all it can be without an upgrade.

This guitar made me not only hate extended range, but music as a whole for a while. Ibanez as a brand is absolutely phenomenal, and I have been a fanboy of them since the moment I picked up guitar. This guitar delivers virtually nothing I expect from Ibanez - even the gio line. The rg8 series is plagued with shoddy craftsmanship, atrocious fretwork, horrendous out-of-box playability, and they just FEEL disgusting in the hand. An unfinished neck =/= an utterly raw neck. Such has been the case with each of the 6 individual rg8s I have played - when porous, grimy feeling, roughly sanded, horribly profiled necks that seem to fight your fretting hand with a samurai's zeal meet mile-high action that can only be nominally corrected due to atrociously leveled frets, the experience of playing an Ibanez RG8 can be likened moreso to the experience of trying to play a fretted shamisen. If ungodly fit and finish, horrible feel, and the flat plate bridge haven't turned you completely off, the disgustingly poor pickup choice should seal the deal. There are many things that these pickups aren't - but I can confirm that they are without character, flat, unimpressive, and unbalanced. Their response to gain is practically null. I have never enjoyed a tone that has come out of an rg8. tl;dr? run for the hills. or buy the entry level Jackson 8.

It's a great beginner's and mid level 8 string that is reliable and has surprisingly good sounding stock pickups