Hello, Ibanez in my opinion is a great choice. I play a Custom S 540 and my co guitarist plays a S 470 (he has two of these). We also have a RG110 which is a hard tail, this is not an expensive guitar but plays very nice. We bring it to all the Gigs as a back up and it works just fine. Bang for the buck, you can't beat Ibanez IMO. Good luck and have a Merry Rockin Christmas, Bill Kelley