The new Ibanez 20th anniversary John Scofield JSM20TH guitar is a stunner

By Rob Laing
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The Japan-made semi hollow has quietly surfaced on Ibanez's website

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Ibanez is celebrating 20 years of producing signature models for jazz guitar (opens in new tab) icon John Scofield (opens in new tab) with a special anniversary JSM20TH. And it's a gold and black beauty. 

The guitar follows the 24.75" scale JSM (opens in new tab) blueprint and features a maple semi hollow body with black gloss finish. An African mahogany set neck with a 22-jumbo fret ebony fretboard is bound like the body.

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There's a Gotoh 510BN bridge, Gotoh GE101A tailpiece and Scofield's preference of a half bone and half brass nut found on the JSM100. Machine heads are Gotoh 510s.

The JSM100 model's JSM Special neck and bridge pickups also feature here, as does Schofield's signature on the gold truss rod cover. 

Price is TBC. For more info visit Ibanez (opens in new tab)

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Rob Laing
Rob Laing
Guitars Editor, MusicRadar

I'm the Guitars Editor for MusicRadar, handling news, reviews, features, tuition, advice for the strings side of the site and everything in between. Before MusicRadar I worked on guitar magazines for 15 years, including Editor of Total Guitar. I've currently set aside any pipe dreams of getting anywhere with my own songs and I am enjoying playing covers in function bands.