Keywords: 1977 Ibanez Custom Agent - Wes Styles-field.jpg 1977 Ibanez Custom Agent - Wes Styles-field <br/> Original was Wes Styles standing in a field with his 1977 Ibanez Custom Agent References Custom Agent No 2405 / No 2405 Guitar 41 Full Length 17 1/2 × 12 1/2 Width IBANEZ-Humbucking Rosewood Fingerboard Mother-of-Pearl Position Bult-In Neck Gold SMOOTH-Tuner Machine Head Brown Sunburst Finish Premier Guitar Vintage Guitar magazine Vintage Guitar In the mid ™70s it was building affordable high-quality clones of and the wrath of Gibson ™s lawyers After the dust settled on the legal side Ibanez quickly hatched a gaggle of amazing guitar designs Behind much of this success was Jeff Hasselberger whose designs and marketing prowess helped propel the perception of the Ibanez brand in just a few short years <br/> Prown One of the transitional guitars was the 2405 which had a quasi-Les Paul shape and mandolin headstock Another of your designs / Hasselberger I think the 2405 Custom Agent was one of the first designs I did for Ibanez It was around ™73 and it ™s one of my many embarrassments It was inspired by a ratty Les Paul with a mandolin-style headstock repair that came into the retail store where I worked in the late ™60s I thought it looked interesting and it stuck in my head When it came time to start thinking about originals we started with our frame of reference Les Pauls and Strats I went a little overboard with it using banjo inlays in the fingerboard a tailpiece-looking inlay in the body and the curlicue pickguard It was eventually more successful than I thought it would ever be cite web Ibanez Custom Agent 2405 http //www arnesibanez com/49943730 photographs arnesibanez com See also www arnesibanez com/49943736 Custom Agent 1973-1975 http //www arnesibanez com/49943737 Custom Agent 1975-1978 http //www arnesibanez com/49943726 Variations http //www arnesibanez com/49943719 Different headstock inlay http //www arnesibanez com/49943724 Custom Agent Bolt On 1973/74 http //www arnesibanez com/49943703 Custom Agent 2675 Wes Styles-field- 70s Les Paul JPG 2012-05-29 10 13 original file Wes Styles-field- 70s Les Paul JPG Klausandstuff derivative work Clusternote File 1977 Ibanez Custom Agent - Wes Styles-field jpg 1977 Ibanez Custom Agent - Wes Styles-field jpg File Wes Styles-field- 70s Les Paul JPG Wes Styles-field- 70s Les Paul JPG clipped rotated adjusted color etc Clusternote Wes Styles-field- 70s Les Paul JPG This page was generated by <nowiki> Derivative work template for subst<nowiki> </nowiki> at 20150516063124 Cc-zero Original upload log own </nowiki>Klausandstuff<nowiki> </nowiki> Ibanez Custom Agent Les Paul descendants 1977 instrument productions Taken with Nikon D90 Ibanez Jeff Hasselberger |