I bought this MC-924 DS Last may after having sold an MC-900 around 20 years ago and regretted it. I always had the thought to replace it and eventually got round to picking this one up from its original owner down near Tunbridge Wells.
I’ve also been searching for this particular Ibanez MC980 for over 30 years after missing out on buying it by literally minutes at a local second hand guitar shop. A friend knew I was looking for one and spotted this and rang me. I rang the shop immediately and told them to hang on to it and I was on my way. Between leaving the house and arriving at the shop it had been sold by another sales person. I was gutted but knew who had bought it. I tried for a few years to try and persuade the owner to sell me it but he wasn’t interested. It was converted to a 4 string but he then sold it on. The last owner converted it back to 8 but with the drones on the underside of the main strings.
Even though I’d given up on it and was searching elsewhere for one, I thought I’d try my luck and drop the last owner a message last week. Turned out he hadn’t used it in years and he was happy to sell it to me on Saturday.
I’ve done a strip and deep clean, flipped saddles back to original and getting a new nut made this week.
I’ve had a Ric 4003/8, a Spector Prototype 8 and a couple of budget ones over the years but they never had the draw this one had. Feels like it’s ‘come home’. First picture is uncleaned as it was when I collected it, the rest are after the cleaning process.