I can’t believe they’re even doing business after the reputation Ed left behind.
I always found it very odd that he’d go on his own site and rant about Ibanez relying on ghost builders, brag about his own builders could build a 10x better JEM than Ibanez and then show a bunch Roman-made JEM-knockoffs that looked like exact replicas of the JEMs.....and he never had a low supply of early JEM models, oddly enough. I would not be surprised in the least bit if there is more than one ”Ibanez JEM” floating out there that was made in Roman’s shop and sold as an Ibanez, either at the knowledge or without the knowledge of the customer.
And I’m surprised you were ever able to get Ibanez necks. Back in ‘98 I snapped my first RG neck and tried to buy a replacement 570 neck, they would only allow me to turn in the broken neck to receive a new one. And they wanted like $800 for an RG neck in 1998! By that time you could find used MIJ’s for $400 and it only cost me $200 to repair, so screw that!
I also tried getting a replacement neck for my JEM twice, as I broke the headstock twice and was just curious but I think Rich Harris quoted me $1300 each time. I’d rather just have one built at that point since mine’s a 90’s JEM neck and the profile has changed a bit over the years.
