<p>1977 Ibanez Custom Agent - Wes Styles-field
<br>(Original was: Wes Styles standing in a field with his 1977 Ibanez Custom Agent)
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<h3><span class="mw-headline" id="References">References</span></h3>
<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160509101123/http://www.ibanezwiki.com/display/CATALOG/1974+-+Ibanez+Guitars+-+Custom+Series">Ibanez Guitars - Custom Series</a> (catalog). <i>1974 Ibanez Guitars</i> p. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.ibanezwiki.com/download/attachments/131519/02.jpg">2</a>. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.ibanezwiki.com/display/CATALOG/1974+-+Ibanez+Guitars+-+Custom+Series">the original</a> on <span class="mw-formatted-date" title="2016-05-09">2016-05-09</span>. Retrieved on <span class="mw-formatted-date" title="2015-05-16">2015-05-16</span>. "<span style="font-size:90%;"><i>Custom Agent No.2405 / No.2405, Guitar, 41" (Full Length), 17 1/2" × 12 1/2"</i> (Width), IBANEZ-Humbucking, Rosewood (Fingerboard), Mother-of-Pearl (Position), Bult-In (Neck), Gold, SMOOTH-Tuner (Machine Head), Brown Sunburst (Finish)<i></i></span><i>"</i></li>
<li><cite style="font-style:normal">Zachary Fjestad (<span class="mw-formatted-date" title="2012-11-05">2012-11-05</span>). "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.premierguitar.com/articles/Ibanez_Custom_Agent">Ibanez Custom Agent</a>". <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premier_Guitar" class="extiw" title="w:Premier Guitar">Premier Guitar</a></i>.</cite></li>
<li><cite style="font-style:normal">Pete Prown. "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.vintageguitar.com/11743/vintage-visionary/">Vintage Visionary - The First Golden Age of Ibanez 1973-1982</a>" (interview). <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vintage_Guitar_(magazine)" class="extiw" title="w:Vintage Guitar (magazine)">Vintage Guitar</a></i>. "<span style="font-size:90%;"><i>In the mid ’70s, it was building affordable, high-quality clones of ... and the wrath of Gibson’s lawyers.  After the dust settled on the legal side, Ibanez quickly hatched a gaggle of amazing guitar designs: ... Behind much of this success was <b>Jeff Hasselberger</b>, whose designs and marketing prowess helped propel the perception of the Ibanez brand ...  in just a few short years. ...</i></span>", <br>"<span style="font-size:90%;"><i>[Prown] One of the transitional guitars was the 2405, which had a quasi-Les Paul shape and mandolin headstock. Another of your designs? / [Hasselberger] I think the 2405 Custom Agent was one of the first designs I did for Ibanez. It was around ’73 and it’s one of my many embarrassments. It was inspired by a ratty Les Paul with a mandolin-style headstock repair that came into the retail store where I worked in the late ’60s.  I thought it looked interesting and it stuck in my head. When it came time to start thinking about originals, we started with our frame of reference ? Les Pauls and Strats. I went a little overboard with it, using banjo inlays in the fingerboard, a tailpiece-looking inlay in the body, and the curlicue pickguard. It was eventually more successful than I thought it would ever be.</i></span>"</cite></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150523031123/http://www.arnesibanez.com/49943730">Ibanez Custom Agent 2405</a> (photographs). <i>arnesibanez.com</i>. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.arnesibanez.com/49943730">the original</a> on <span class="mw-formatted-date" title="2015-05-23">2015-05-23</span>. Retrieved on <span class="mw-formatted-date" title="2015-05-16">2015-05-16</span>. (See also: [www.arnesibanez.com/49943736 Custom Agent 1973-1975], <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.arnesibanez.com/49943737">Custom Agent 1975-1978</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.arnesibanez.com/49943726">Variations</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.arnesibanez.com/49943719">Different headstock inlay</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.arnesibanez.com/49943724">Custom Agent Bolt On 1973/74</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.arnesibanez.com/49943703">Custom Agent 2675</a>)</li></ul>
<ul><li><a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wes_Styles-field-_70s_Les_Paul.JPG" title="File:Wes Styles-field- 70s Les Paul.JPG">Wes Styles-field- 70s Les Paul.JPG</a>: <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Klausandstuff&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="User:Klausandstuff (page does not exist)">Klausandstuff</a></li>
<li>derivative work: <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Clusternote" title="User:Clusternote">Clusternote</a></li></ul>
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