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1997 Ibanez Talman TC220-DG

Very Good

$600

Model: TC220
Finish: Deep Green (DG)
Serial: C7119570
Built: November 1997
Made in Korea (Cort, Cor-Tek)
Body: Agathis
Total weight: 7 lb 8.2 oz

This TC220 guitar is very clean! There's minimal fret wear. I'd say 90% of fret life remaining! The first few frets have the deepest indentions and they are not even that bad. There's also some smaller dents in frets 6 and 13, but does not affect playability. All frets can easily be redressed in the future, if needed.
The knobs are not original, the Ibanez parts had a more rounded dome.
The 2 screws holding the bridge pickup are also not original.

Comes with a soft gig bag.

Setup:

- clean and polish hardware
- polish frets
- clean and oil fretboard (Nomad F-ONE)
- Nomad TUNE-IT lubricant on nut and saddles
- D'Addario 10-46 strings
- original (plastic) nut, slots E A D filled and recut
- D string tuner bushing replaced
- adjusted truss rod, neck relief to .011" (.279mm)
- deoxidize all electronics
- resolder broken wires on switch
- string height and pickup heights adjusted
- intonation adjusted
- carnauba wax on body


String heights @12th (hold 1st):

E 1.75mm
A 2.25mm
D 2.5mm
G 2.5mm
B 2.25mm
e 1.6mm

Pickup heights:

Neck: low side 3mm, high side 3mm
Bridge: low side 2mm, high side 2mm

Blemishes:

- There are light scratches and swirls all over the paint and hardware. They can only really be seen in reflected light. In person everything looks nice, clean and shiny.

- A few very small indentions in paint. Can only be seen in reflected light.

- Neck pickup starting to yellow (more than the other plastics), but it's still pretty white compared to other TC220 I've seen.

- Left screw on neck pickup has dug into the pickguard plastic slightly

- Back plastic cover has a chipped corner and some cracking.

- The pickguard has playing wear / scratches.

- Some tarnishing on pickguard screws

- Finish crack is starting to show near the neck pocket (on treble side)

- Some paint chipping inside the hole for the truss rod

- Someone has made a previous repair to the left screw hole under the jack plate. The wood had slightly split off and it appears to be a good repair with proper wood glue. The screw holds nice and tight.

- Small dent on back of neck


Note, I'm just being thorough. I'd rate this condition very good. Unless there's a guitar out there that sat in a case its entire life, you'll be hard pressed to find another TC220 this clean

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