Ibanez AR1500 Value?

[intelligentpony]

I have stumbled across a 1983 Ibanez AR1500 and was wondering if anyone here may know a value on it. Seems to be a pretty rare guitar as I can find nothing for sale other than one on a Japanese website. Stupid clean with the warranty card and original brown rectangular case.

[serial]

Believe it or not, that wasn't the top of the line in the early 80s. These are super nice guitars I think. Most are cherry sunburst and have a "Custom Made" inlay at the 20th fret. I'm sure production was very low on these-I remember the ad with thd tiger over a sick flametop, but I think that guitar was a 4000-they had two mini switches that the 1500 didn't have. The 5000 was the one with vine inlays. The AR 500s were loaded with switches. The 200s, 300s and 500s were production guitars-I think the 1500s were the "custom shop" higher end stuff, but don't quote me-it's been a while!

I'll give you tree fiddy right away!!

[intelligentpony]

I did some digging and found the '83 catalog online and it states that the AR1500 are hand made. It appears that the AR3000 and AR5000 were a couple of years before the AR1500. The AR3000 was in the '81 catalog and the AR5000 in the '81 and '82 catalogs and the AR1500 in the '83 catalog.

Here are the AR3000 and AR5000

[serial]

Just dug up some of my Ibby stuff from back then-there was an AR 3005 in '83 that had the two mini toggles. The 3000/5000s were the ones I was thinking about with all of the knobs and stuff.

[intelligentpony]

Just dug up some of my Ibby stuff from back then-there was an AR 3005 in '83 that had the two mini toggles. The 3000/5000s were the ones I was thinking about with all of the knobs and stuff.

They must have been trying to keep up with BC Rich in the knob and switch counts...