Guitar Story
Guitar Story
In 2021, Hoshino Gakki Co., Ltd. controlled the Ibanez name. Its 5 lines on record were built at FujiGen, Korean builders for Ibanez (unverified), Chinese contractors for Ibanez GIO (unverified) and Ibanez Indonesian Premium facility (operator unverified) (Japan, South Korea, China and Indonesia).[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8]
A Ibanez guitar from 2021 belongs to whichever era was running on its product line that year. An era is a stretch when the company that controlled the name and the plant that built the line both stayed the same. If you know the line, the table below tells you which version of Ibanez you have. The name dates from 1935no source, 86 years before.
| Line | Controlled by | Parent | Built at | Era | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ibanez GIO | Hoshino Gakki Co., Ltd. | — | Chinese contractors for Ibanez GIO (unverified) Chinano source | 1997–now | community[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6] |
| Ibanez Indonesia Standard | Hoshino Gakki Co., Ltd. | — | No plant on record | 1990–now | community[1, 2, 3, 4, 5] |
| Ibanez Japan (FujiGen: J Custom, Prestige) | Hoshino Gakki Co., Ltd. | — | FujiGen Matsumoto, Nagano, Japan[9] | 1981–now | community[1, 2, 3, 4, 5] |
| Ibanez Korea | Hoshino Gakki Co., Ltd. | — | Korean builders for Ibanez (unverified) South Koreano source | 1985–now | community[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7] |
| Ibanez Premium (Indonesia) | Hoshino Gakki Co., Ltd. | — | Ibanez Indonesian Premium facility (operator unverified) | 2010–now | community[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8] |
Nothing changed in 2021. Every era running that year carried on from an earlier year, so a Ibanez from 2021 is the same version as one from 2020.
Chinese contractors for Ibanez GIO (unverified), FujiGen, Korean builders for Ibanez (unverified) and Ibanez Indonesian Premium facility (operator unverified). See every brand each plant built for, and every plant in the same country:
Every numbered marker on this page points here: the document, its grade and the passages relied on. An era is computed, so it cites the facts it was derived from. A fact marked “no source” has no claim attached yet.
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