The Ibanez

Ibanez

is a Japanese guitar brand owned by Hoshino Gakki. Based in Nagoya, Aichi, Japan, Hoshino Gakki were one of the first Japanese musical instrument companies to gain a significant foothold in import guitar sales in the United States and Europe, as well as the first brand of guitars to mass produce...

 MTM series is a series of signature guitars created by Slipknot

Slipknot (band)

Slipknot is an American heavy metal band from Des Moines, Iowa. Formed in 1995, the group was founded by percussionist Shawn Crahan and bassist Paul Gray...

's Mick Thomson, and produced by Ibanez

Ibanez

is a Japanese guitar brand owned by Hoshino Gakki. Based in Nagoya, Aichi, Japan, Hoshino Gakki were one of the first Japanese musical instrument companies to gain a significant foothold in import guitar sales in the United States and Europe, as well as the first brand of guitars to mass produce...

. It has a H-H configuration, or two humbucking pickups, and the fixed Edge FX bridge, which is based on Ibanez Edge

Ibanez Edge

The Ibanez Edge Tremolo is a double locking tremolo system for the electric guitar very similar in design to the original Floyd Rose. It first appeared in the Ibanez product line as of the 1986 model year, however, they have appeared on guitars with 1985 serial numbers...

 tremolo

Tremolo

Tremolo, or tremolando, is a musical term that describes various trembling effects, falling roughly into two types. The first is a rapid reiteration...

 but fixed, providing more tuning stability than a standard hard-tail

Hard-tail

The term hard-tail has several meanings:* A hard-tail guitar bridge for an electric guitar or archtop guitar is one without a tremolo arm or vibrato tailpiece....

. They come factory tuned to Dropped B (B, F#, B, E, G#, C# (low to high)). Contrary to popular belief, the MTM series guitars do not sport a tremolo bar or system.

The MTM1 is constructed with the neck-thru

Neck-thru

Neck-through or neck-thru is a method of electric guitar or bass guitar construction that involves extending the piece of wood used for the neck through the entire length of the body, essentially making it the core of the body. The strings, fretboard, pickups and bridge are all mounted on this...

 method, has a mahogany

Mahogany

The name mahogany is used when referring to numerous varieties of dark-colored hardwood. It is a native American word originally used for the wood of the species Swietenia mahagoni, known as West Indian or Cuban mahogany....

 body, and a 5 piece maple

Maple

Acer is a genus of trees or shrubs commonly known as maple.Maples are variously classified in a family of their own, the Aceraceae, or together with the Hippocastanaceae included in the family Sapindaceae. Modern classifications, including the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group system, favour inclusion in...

/walnut

Walnut

Juglans is a plant genus of the family Juglandaceae, the seeds of which are known as walnuts. They are deciduous trees, 10–40 meters tall , with pinnate leaves 200–900 millimetres long , with 5–25 leaflets; the shoots have chambered pith, a character shared with the wingnuts , but not the hickories...

 neck. The neck is the wizard II neck and on the newer generations of the MTM1, it does not have the thumbstop behind the headstock. When the MTM1 was first released, it came out of the factory with active EMG Pickups: the 81 and 60. The 2nd generation MTM1's came with Seymour Duncan

Seymour Duncan

Seymour Duncan is a company that is best known for manufacturing of guitar pickups, and currently has a line of effects pedals. The company was founded in 1976 by guitarist and luthier Seymour W. Duncan and his then-wife Cathy Carter Duncan in Goleta, California, USA...

 AHB-1 Blackouts and came in 2 colors; black with white binding, or the traditional blood red with black binding. The 3rd generation MTM1s were released with a few modifications from it's predecessors. The thumbstop behind the ehadstock was removed, the AHB-1 Blackouts were changed to Thomson's signature EMTY Blackouts, and the output jack was mounted on the side of the guitar, like that of an Ibanez JEM

Ibanez JEM

Ibanez JEM is an electric guitar manufactured by Ibanez and first produced in 1987. The guitar's most notable user is its co-designer, Steve Vai. As of 2010, there have been five sub-models of the JEM: the JEM7, JEM77, JEM777, JEM555 and the JEM333...

. The MTM1 is the more expensive model.The MTM1 is now officially discontinued by ibanez.

The Ibanez MTM2 is the more affordable sister guitar of the MTM1, it has a mahogany body, bolt-on maple neck, locking nut, EDGE III Fixed bridge, and Duncan designed active pickups.