I will not create and entry for every guitar, bass, or drum kit that I have had over the past five years. That would be a way too depressing endeavor. I will only be moving instruments here that I have sold or traded since May of 2025.

Ibanez Artcore AGB140-TBR (2006) in Transparent Brown

I bought this bass on a whim. I was looking for a semi-hollow bass and (as much as I dig them) did not want to pay $800 for the Epiphone Jack Casady so when it came up in the Facebook Marketplace, I decided to check it out and it came home with me.

In the past, I tried an Epi Viola bass but found the tight string spacing terribly uncomfortable and too awkward to play. The string spacing on this Ibanez is much better but the longer scale (34″) and the neck position relative to the body takes some getting used to.

This AGB140 was an odd duck of a bass. First, it had a single-cut body which I love and you just don’t see many semi-hollow single-cuts. It was also (I’m guessing, anyway) moderately rare. I am basing that opinion on the fact that you can’t find many offered for sale online. Check out Reverb and see for yourself. Ibanez’s current iterations of the Artcore bass are all short scale models. This is a full-scale 34-inch bass.

One of the previous owners for reasons that will forever remain shrouded in mystery, decided to first super-glue a CLIP-ON tuner to the upper bout of the bass. Then, when that failed miserably, they glued it to the back of the headstock. This was a weird bass that seemed to have garnered weird ownership over its 19-year existence.

For weeks after I bought it, I wasn’t sure about keeping it. I cleaned it up, put new flat wound strings on, and listed it in several online marketplaces. There was next to ZERO interest. I received a single DM asking about a trade for a more modern Ibanez.

I do not know if it was the shape, or the color, or the fact that it only had one pickup, but it seemed to be a bass no one wants.

Subsequently, I decided to keep this strange bass and make it my own. It was a One-Trick Pony, but I really liked the trick!

Not too long after creating this particular entry, a gal from Savannah, Georgia DMed me asking about the condition of the bass. She ended up driving the five hours from Georgia to Port Saint Lucie and bought it.