Destroyer Series Blog from June, 2010

Someone recently sent me photos of their DT-355 to post to the site.

Since we lacked any images of this rare guitar, I was more than happy to receive them.

I did a quick skim over the images, picked one, did a little clean up, and began posting the photo to the site.

Halfway though the process of updating the site I realized this was a DG-350, not a DT-355.

"OK, so what?", you might say.

Take a look at the neck butt and neck pocket:

They are clearly stamped "DT-355".

Hmmm...

Granted it was very early on a Saturday morning when I was doing this and, I'll admit, I probably wasn't the sharpest knife in the drawer so that's my excuse for not picking up on this sooner.

This guitar belongs to the X-Series line as shown on the headstock. The X-Series models were created for the western market. After a little digging, I found it to be a DG-350AM and later learned that the DG-350 was also available to the Japanese market even though it was part of the X-Series lineup.

The "real" DT-355 belonged to the Destroyer-II line and was for the domestic Japanese market.

I am assuming at this point that the DG-350 and the DT-355 share the same neck and body with different hardware for each of the markets.

I knew previously that the designation "DT-420" had been used for two completely different Destroyer models: one from 1992/93 and one from 2002/03.

I had always heard that the second incarnation of the DT-420 was a reissue of the DT-400. Personally, I could never see it. Then I found out why. The DT-400 designation was reused in 1996 on a Japanese market Destroyer. The specs were identical to the second DT-420.

So, the second incarnation of the DT-420 (2002) is a reissue of the second incarnation of the DT-400 (1996).

I also recently discovered that the "DT-200" model designation was also recycled. The second usage, which I knew about, is from 2004. The first usage was in 1983 on a Japanese domestic model.

I was plowing through the Japanese catalogs that Ibanez posted online and found a couple of Destroyers that belonged to the Ibanez Art Graphic Series.

Thought I'd share:

http://www.ibanez.co.jp/anniversary_j/expansion.php?cat_id=60&now=1