Albert King's Bolin pink "Lucy" Electric Guitar vs Ibanez AT100CL-SB
The Albert King's Bolin pink "Lucy" Electric Guitar and the Ibanez AT100CL-SB are both electric guitars sharing mid-forward, dynamic. The Albert King's Bolin pink "Lucy" Electric Guitar leans gritty.
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Blended from circuit-archetype lineage, dynamic feel, tone-signal overlap and tone-vector distance — the tone vector itself is derived from editorial description text, not a measured acoustic signal, so this reflects how similarly the catalog copy describes the two, not a lab measurement. Shown only within a gear class, and only where there's enough evidence to be meaningful.50% — somewhat different
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Derived from overlapping tonal signals across both listings.- mid-forward
- dynamic
Albert King's Bolin pink "Lucy" Electric Guitar
Bolin · electric guitar
Ibanez AT100CL-SB
Ibanez · electric guitar
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Citation/mention fame — how often this gear is cited across artist rigs and gear discussion.Pink Lucy is a custom Flying V built by luthier John Bolin in 1988 as a birthday gift from ZZ Tops Billy Gibbons to Albert King, one of several Flying V copies King owned and named Lucy throughout his career, following the original 1959 Korina Flying V he played on his classic Stax recordings. Finished in magenta sparkle, Pink Lucy became Kings primary instrument for the remainder of his career following the gift, until his death in 1992. King owned several Lucy guitars built by different luthiers including Dan Erlewine and Tom Holmes, all continuing the Flying V shape and naming tradition of the original.
The Ibanez AT100CL, shown here in Sunburst, is Andy Timmons's signature model, built on Ibanez's RG body shape but leaning closer to a Stratocaster in feel thanks to an alder body, 22 frets, and a Wilkinson-Gotoh synchronized tremolo rather than the double-locking systems common on other RG guitars. It runs DiMarzio Cruiser pickups in the neck and middle with a hotter DiMarzio AT-1 in the bridge, matched to a bolt-on maple neck using Ibanez's All Access neck joint for smooth upper-fret access. Timmons, known for melodic, vocal-like phrasing across his solo instrumental work and his time in Danger Danger, uses this Strat-adjacent alder build to favor expressive touch and dynamics over the extreme high-output specs found on Ibanez's more metal-oriented signature lines.
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Genres this gear is documented as being used in.- Blues
- Jazz
- Rock
- Metal
- gritty