Fender Select Carved Maple Top Jazzmaster - HH vs Ibanez THBB10

The Fender Select Carved Maple Top Jazzmaster - HH and the Ibanez THBB10 are both electric guitars sharing transparent. The Fender Select Carved Maple Top Jazzmaster - HH leans warm and spring. The Ibanez THBB10 leans sustaining and tight.

Similarity
citedBlended 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.

53% — moderately similar

Shared genres
citedGenres both listings are associated with.
  • Progressive Rock
  • Rock
Shared tone character
citedDerived from overlapping tonal signals across both listings.
  • transparent

Ibanez THBB10

Ibanez · electric guitar

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Price

$1828via Reverb

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Description

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 THBB10 is Tim Henson's AZ series signature electric guitar, introduced in 2019. The guitar features an American basswood body bolted to a one-piece roasted maple neck with roasted maple fingerboard and 24 stainless steel frets. The 25.5 inch scale length and 42mm nut width accommodate modern technique and provide excellent sustain. Custom DiMarzio Notorious pickups in HSS configuration deliver a mini-humbucker bridge for output and articulation, with single-coils in the neck and middle positions for tonal flexibility. The heat-treated maple construction provides well-balanced attack, rich sustain, and hyper-defined mids ideal for both clean and overdriven contexts. The T1502 synchronized tremolo enables responsive pitch manipulation.

Genres
citedGenres this gear is documented as being used in.
  • Jazz
  • Indie
  • Metal
Tonal lean
  • warm
  • spring
  • sustaining
  • tight
  • aggressive
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