From his Ibanez PIA all the way to his radical five-neck Hydra, Steve Vai is a man of many electric guitars – but the instrument he considers to be a “family heirloom” isn’t actually one ...

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Ibanez JSM100 (Image credit: Ibanez). This John Scofield dual humbucker signature semi featuring a figured Anigre top, back and sides is used by Vai for a single song called Little Pretty (from his ...

Steve Vai's 2011 Ibanez JEM, aka "Sofia", as used on the Experience Hendrix shows. (Image credit: Julien's Auctions) “It was basically stock. Through the years I changed out the neck and pickups ...

Through the years with Ibanez (the electric guitar brand Vai has endorsed for decades) we’ve made some crazy multi-neck guitars. But I never really felt like I had hit the mark that I wanted to ...

Vai turned the plans for the Hydra over to engineers at Ibanez, the company that has made his guitars for decades. The Ibanez engineers added some features, like synthesized guitar and hold functions.

Korn – now endorsed by Steve Vai. The seven string guitar has existed in many iterations over the years, though finally had its first mainstream electric production model as the Ibanez UV7 in 1990.

Once Ibanez got it, they started carving away at it.” Vai began his music career as a transcriptionist for Zappa during the late 1970s before joining his band from 1980 to 1983.