Ibanez RGD71ALMS-BAM

I could say that I am a beginner, however, I can appreciate the beauty of a well-made guitar. To me, it might as well cost 2x what it costs now and the price would definitely be justified.
It looks great, the outer lacquer changes colour when you look at it from a different angle relative to the incoming light.
The guitar arrived brilliantly packaged and is practically ready to play. The string action is slightly higher than on my 6-string guitars, but it doesn't bother me at all and I'm not going to lower it at this point.
Fishmans sound brutal. I can't get enough of them.
Taking this guitar in my hands, it feels like there is a lot more wood under the paw. The neck gives a great feel in the hand through the lack of varnish finish and gives the feeling of dealing with actual wood, to give great satisfaction.
It takes a little getting used to the extra string and the multiscale, but it's a very enjoyable challenge.

Overall, I love it. A lot.

I was looking for a 7 string guitar that will be perfect for studio recording/live playing, but didn't want to burn my pockets, so I decided to limit myself to around 1000 euro.
I looked through tons of schecters, ltd's and so on and decided to try out this multiscale with fishmans. Can't be more happy.

Visuals:
The guitar came spotless, no issues visually. Finish is quite nice. Perhaps not the most eye catching finish, but really live, it is quite elegant and the colour changes are very beautiful. The only thing that I can notice, was that perhaps the fretboard could have been slightly better sanded, some edges aren't perfect, but nothing that would impact playability.

Playability:
Setup was great straight out of the box. This being my first multiscale, it plays great and took no time at all to adjust to it. Very comfortable and very fast in terms of playability. It also holds up quite well if you're going to drop tune it.

Pickups:
The fishmans are superb and everything I hoped they would be. A lot of different tonal options with the voicing switch. Guitar has a very mean and modern tone. They are very high output tho, so keep it in mind when plugging it in your interfaces and such.

Tuning:
Tuning is held extremely well by the locking tuners and bridge, only in more extreme weather changes does it get out of tune.

Inlays:
Glow in the dark inlays and side dots are great, especially if you'll be using it on a darker stage. Just point a flashlight at them for a bit and they're all good.

Overall I'm very impressed how much high end features Ibanez managed to cram into this sub 1000 euro guitar. Perhaps I sound like I've been payed by Ibanez to praise this guitar, but it really is quite good, at least the specific guitar I got.

It took two guitars in order to get it right, but I got what I wanted, eventually.
The first guitar's bridge pickup would work only sometimes so I had to RMA it (props to Thomann's customer service: they were great). The second guitar actually worked as advertised, which gave me a great quality guitar.
The finish on the guitar body is pretty flawless, the neck is speedy, the pickups have great sound and the hardware works with no problems. It's a very comfortable to play guitar with great access to higher frets and I found the fanned frets not too hard to get used to, even though this is my first fanned fret guitar.