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