ibanez 2358R Al Caiola

This is an interesting guitar with a nice weight of 6 pounds and 5 ounces. Here is some info courtesy of the fine folks at Ibanez Wiki...                                                                     

"The 2358-R is a hollow body electric guitar model introduced by Ibanez for 1971. It was produced in Japan. It is essentially an ES-335 Gibson - Al Caiola copy"

"The 2358-R features a smaller, double-cutaway, semi-hollow body design with a fine grained rosewood top on rosewood back and sides with black and white purfling mated to a set-in maple and walnut neck with a 22-fret rosewood fingerboard with pearl blocks position markers, white binding and black side dots. Components include a pair of Maxon humbucking pickups, Controls are 2 volume knobs, two pickup on-off switches and two tone-switches, the Tune-o-matic style bridge is equipped with a specially decorated trapezoidal tailpiece, a black picguard, a plastic nut, top hat knobs, and Ibanez tuning machines. The 2358-R was discontinued after 1972."