COVER MODELS

This is the red one, so it was the second one.

- ANDREW DALY

Q What's the story behind this guitar, which seems to be the sequel to the Ibanez WRB-1?

This first one was called the WRB-1, and it had a really cool Winger graphic on it. This one - the second one - came out around 1990. Ibanez tried to do a lower-cost model with just a straight color. Candy Apple Red is still my favorite color, but it would've been so much cooler in black. I wish they did one like that.

Q Was there a WRB-2?

It's a mystery. Nobody knows why the WRB-1 came out, and then the next guitar to come out was the WRB-3. There's no WRB-2, and nobody knows why, not even Ibanez. I called them; they don't even have a record of that guitar; it was so long ago that no records or specs even exist on it.