
This custom guitar was posted up on Jemsite by member Brian Johnston, as you can see it is based on the Ibanez JEM but this custom was created by Casper Guitar Technologies and features a few modifications as you can see. “I wanted more of a personal and customized guitar, including metallic paint, a smaller neck size, custom pickups, and a ‘vine of life’ inlay that would be stunning and highly decorative.” says Brian and CGT certainly achieved that goal.

The Tuning Pegs are solid silver ‘leaf’ developed by guitarists and metalsmiths Bo Svendson and Daniel Doucette of www.Argentariis.com. “I was so impressed with the uniqueness (the leaf pegs were an obvious match with the vine of life inlay, as though the vine continued up the headstock and sprouted life) and quality of their work that I commissioned Bo Svendson to develop two knobs for the volume and tone controls to further emulate the ‘leaf’ concept. Bo added a diamond inlay on the top and hand-engraved the knobs with a decorative, Victorian style vine inlay, both of which took customization to a new level.”

Unlike stock JEM’s this guitar has a solid Mahogany body (ooh controversial!) and stainless steel frets. It also has hand wound pickups and as you can see below a custom headstock shape.

I think this is a pretty interesting take on the JEM, a little too much bling for my personal tastes though what do you think?

This custom guitar was posted up on Jemsite by member Brian Johnston, as you can see it is based on the Ibanez JEM but this custom was created by Casper Guitar Technologies and features a few modifications as you …










