Tone,Tone,Tone....

[plishous]

I must say that the Ibanez GSA-60 Is by far the best buy for the money This guitar has the most versitile tone from it's Agathis well balanced neck & body.
you must play this guitar. 2=

[Whoopysnorp]

What exactly is Agathis? Is that a type of mahogany, or is it something unique? I know there are many different woods that are related to mahogany but come under different names.

Ibanez is tough to beat for a low-priced, fast-playing guitar. I love my beat-up old RG560. It's ugly as sin, but it plays like a dream.

[Nubus]

It's a pine tree!

[plishous]

Made of Japanese Agathis wood kids...

[smopo24]

it's suprising to see a 2 single-coil with 1 humbucker design on a guitar that inexpensive! i usually don't like the feel of ibanez guitars, but i just may have to try this one out.

[Nubus]

Is that guitar made in Japan?

[lukedavo]

I imagine the guitar was manufactured in China. Here's a little taste and a link to the information you seek......
What is Agathis?
Agathis is the name for a genus of giant tropical conifer trees found in rain forests in the tropical far east and the southwest Pacific. The genus is a member of the Araucariaceae, the plant family which includes the monkey-puzzles and Cook-pines as well as the recently discovered Wollemi Pine, a botanical “living fossil” from New South Wales in Australia. The Araucariaceae belongs to a group of plants known as the conifers, which also includes the pine family (pines, spruces, larches, firs, cedars), the podocarp family (podocarps, kahikatea, totara, etc.) and the cypress family (swamp-cypresses, giant sequoias, junipers & cypresses). The timber is immensely useful (see below) and is increasingly used, or so it would seem, for making guitars.

http://www.agathis.info/guitars.php

blaaa'dow.