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Group Test

It might not buy you love, but money is still the only way to get your

hands on the world’s finest electric guitars. TG checks out four mega-

bucks axes that are worth a battering from a loan shark…

Top dollar

dream machines

WORDS HENRY YATES PHOTOGRAPHY JESSE WILD

Ibanez JEM 7V

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& Ibanez JEM 7V Dean Soltero SL Group Test Top dollar dream machines It might not buy you love, but money is still the only way to get your hands on the world’s finest electric guitars. TG checks out four megabucks axes that are worth a battering from a loan shark… WORDS HENRY YATES PHOTOGRAPHY JESSE WILD 130 TGR177.
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Jackson Soloist SL2H Flip the page to find out which one won our Group Test head-to-head Gibson Les Paul N ow, if we were being all sensible and mature, TG would probably advise you to lock your disposable income into an ISA, thereby ensuring you have a nest egg in retirement. But how boring would that be? Seeing as we’re irresponsible wasters, our advice is to sink every last penny into the finest guitar available to humanity. Houses, cars and holidays come and go.
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& Ibanez JEM 7V At a glance £1,899 Ibanez JEM 7V Stevie’s wonder p Body The 7V’s design is über ergonomic – it even comes with a handle p Pickups With DiMarzio Evolutions, the 7V has some serious power B ack in 1986, Steve Vai found an unexpected parcel under his Christmas tree; it turned out to be a prototype sent to him by Ibanez. Vai loved it, and hooked up with the Japanese giant to design the JEM.
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“THE SOLOIST IS THE ULTIMATE CHOICE FOR VIRTUOSI, LAPPING UP ALL OF YOUR TECHNIQUE” Dean Soltero SL At a glance £1,649 Dean Soltero Got the green for a Dean? p Body Visually, the Soltero has shades of the Les Paul, and shares its sustain Headstock p p Pickups The Soltero has a warm and full tone that isn’t quite like anything else on the market O ur man at UK distributor Bill Lewington gave it to us straight: “The metal thing is all good,” he says, “but the Soltero is the future for this company