Ibanez DN300 - Black

(Contact me at: mxktguitars@gmail.com)

333,00€

plus shipping: 25€ to France, 40€ to the European Union.

 

19/07/2026:

This is the guitar that kicked the bucket. It had been several years since a guitar had surprised me this much, considering the value for the money.

I had never had one of these before, and never thought of buying one either. The closest was an ART500 Custom that I sold around 2013 or 2014.

It all started when a cousin of my wife, the owner of the Epiphone G400 Korina sold not long ago, asked me to do some research on the internet for a guitar. He started playing piano, but having doubts about returning to the guitar or not. Being an Ibanez fan and since this brand rarely let me down, I have concentrated my research on Ibanez, but also Yamaha Pacíficas, just in case. Him being in his 60s, I wanted to propose a simple guitar with fixed bridge and easy to tune, like the Epiphone he had.

About 2 weeks later, I decided to go for this Ibanez; the seller accepted to lower the price due to the neck crack on the back. Finally the crack is just on the finish and the guitar is solid as a rock.

It arrived, I did a quick fret level, and I achieved a very low action that I had never expected : less than 1,5mm at the high E and slightly less than 2,0mm at the middle of the low E string, both at the 22nd fret. To tell you the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, I've revised the action on all my Ibanez RG and RGT, because I've noticed I was playing this Darkstone way more than (any of) them. I want to remind you this is a Made in China guitar and the most basic model of the line.

To summarize the following events, my wife's cousin never spoke about guitar since March, and I've decided to put it on sale. But I confess sometimes I feel tempted to keep it. It plays very smoothly and very fast, the electronic doesn't make any noises, and also the ceramic ACH-S humbuckers sound lovely (the neck position particularly sounds very PAF-like), at least through my Zoom G3.

Some of you may be thinking : "-Yeah, right..." Probably I would too, but if it's not everything I've said, I'll refund the buyer completely.

I don't know if all Darkstones are this good, but this one will surprise you, believe me. It's not the prettiest guitar around, but you will fall in love the moment you play it.

Thanks for your visit!

 

Ibanez RG350DXZ/2550E Prestige - White

(Contact me at: mxktguitars@gmail.com)

333,00€

plus shipping: 25€ to France, 40€ to the European Union.

 

19/12/2025:

Here I am again! This is a kind of an Ibanez partscaster, my favorite brand since almost 20 years.

I bought a set of hardware taken from an Ibanez RG2550E Prestige in 2024 and later found a neck from a 2011 Ibanez RG350DXZ here in France. The seller had also the body on sale for 25€ but the post holes were broken. Later I've found a really nice german guy that had just posted a white body of a 2005 Ibanez RG350 on sale, same color side to side. I had already done some research about the Edge III and I knew the Edge Pro was a direct swap so I bought it.

Bought a loaded Fleor HSS pickguard and an RG350 HSS pickguard on AliYouKnowWhere, and transfered the whole thing. The pickguard fell right on, all the screws were at the right place, but I had to do a quick drilling on the body to acomodate the wires and the first tone pot. Nothing serious, you can see these stages at the latest photos.

The tuners were not a problem, I was super happy! The neck joint took me 20 minutes to be perfect. The neck was about 1mm larger, maybe less, but after sanding both sides of the cavity everything fell smoothly into place. I thought the project would take a while to be ready but finally a weekend was enough. On a Sunday afternoon I leveled the frets, set the strings, action, and tuned the octaves. A new back plate and truss rod cover and it got ready the next week.

You will be receiving the string retainer and the 2 original knobs from the RG2550 in case one day you decide to go back to the original HSH or even a HH configuration. The Fleor Alnico 5 HSS set is quite reasonable! The single coils would need a bit more bite in my opinion but they're quiet, and the humbucker is the best of all 3 without a doubt. The video was made plugging it to my Zoom G3, Harley Benton power amp pedal and a 212 cab with HH speakers.

12/07/2026:

 I took the neck off because there was something bothering me; the action was good but it could be better and in my opinion the neck was too bowed torwards the interior. I like my other RG guitars's neck basically straight or almost. So I took about 1,5mm of cardboard and shimmed the neck, and that's what it was missing. Obviously the Edge Pro is now higher, just at the level of the side mark, and the neck is now almost straight and with an even action: 1,2mm at the high E and 2mm at the middle of the lower E string, which was quite an impovement specially from the 5^th to the 12/15^th frets were the bow was too much. Yup guys, been playing it a mot more since.

Cheers!