Fender Select Carved Maple Top Jazzmaster - HH vs Ibanez Iceman Electric Guitar
The Fender Select Carved Maple Top Jazzmaster - HH and the Ibanez Iceman Electric Guitar are both electric guitars sharing full, transparent. The Fender Select Carved Maple Top Jazzmaster - HH leans warm and spring. The Ibanez Iceman Electric Guitar leans bright. Current prices: $1828 vs $694.26.
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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.51% — moderately similar
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Genres both listings are associated with.- Jazz
- Rock
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Derived from overlapping tonal signals across both listings.- full
- transparent
Fender Select Carved Maple Top Jazzmaster - HH
Fender · electric guitar
Ibanez Iceman Electric Guitar
Unknown brand · electric guitar
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Citation/mention fame — how often this gear is cited across artist rigs and gear discussion.$1828via Reverb
$694.26via Reverb
Before his own Fender signature model existed, the Select Carved Maple Top Jazzmaster HH was Guthrie Govan's main Fender guitar, and he has said on camera that it is jazzmaster-shaped but carries some non-Jazzmaster DNA of its own. It pairs a chambered alder body with a carved flame maple top under a hand-stained gloss finish, a pair of Wide Range Special humbuckers, and a thick modern C-shaped maple neck with a channel-bound, compound-radius rosewood fingerboard running from 9.5 to 14 inches, plus a distinctively oversized Fender Select headstock. The Adjusto-Matic bridge with stop tailpiece and three-way pickup switching with an S-1 tone-shaping switch give it more in common with a carved-top rock guitar than a traditional offset Jazzmaster, matching Govan's need for a guitar that could handle fusion, rock, and virtuosic lead work in equal measure.
The Ibanez Iceman, launched in 1975, was one of the first original body shapes from a Japanese maker rather than a copy — an asymmetric outline with a long lower horn and a sharply cut treble side. Paul Stanley played one through Kiss's peak years, and the shape has been reissued repeatedly since, usually with humbuckers and a set neck.
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Genres this gear is documented as being used in.- Indie
- Progressive Rock
- Blues
- Alternative Rock
- Metal
- warm
- spring
- bright