u/AirbagsBlown

Long story short, someone is selling a Talman body and neck and it looks like an interesting project, but something seems off. At first glance, it looks like a TV650 - white body, top edge binding, two-point bridge, the routing looks like what was typical of these... and I have one, so I'm familiar with the specs.

https://ibanez.fandom.com/wiki/TV650

However, one of the neck bolts looks way too close to the edge by the heel. The TV650 also didn't have a maple fretboard like this one does. Also, the logo is in mother-of-pearl, and pretty much every Talman had a black or gold metallic ink decal.

It doesn't seem to me like there's much of a market for a "Chibanez" version of a Talman model that was released thirty years ago, so what am I looking at? A prototype? A body with a neck build? A factory reject out of FujiGen?

Long story short, someone is selling a Talman body and neck and it looks like an interesting project, but something seems off. At first glance, it looks like a TV650 - white body, top edge binding, two-point bridge, the routing looks like what was typical of these... and I have one, so I'm familiar with the specs.

https://ibanez.fandom.com/wiki/TV650

However, one of the neck bolts looks way too close to the edge by the heel. The TV650 also didn't have a maple fretboard like this one does. Also, the logo is in mother-of-pearl, and pretty much every Talman had a black or gold metallic ink decal.

It doesn't seem to me like there's much of a market for a "Chibanez" version of a Talman model that was released thirty years ago, so what am I looking at? A prototype? A body with a neck build? A factory reject out of FujiGen?