Tim Henson’s Ibanez nylon-string signature guitar was one of 2023’s best-selling acoustics – now, it’s finally been made available as a left-handed version
The Polyphia virtuoso’s best-selling signature made its debut in 2022, and has since become a staple of Henson's guitar arsenal
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When Polyphia released Playing God in 2022 – a song that gave fans a glimpse of Tim Henson's elusive new Ibanez nylon-string model – it proved to be a huge hit.
Now, Ibanez has released the TOD10NL, a left-handed model that extends the love to the lesser catered-for lefties – even if it arrived some 14 weeks after a miniature version, modeled by Henson’s dog on Instagram.
A thin, modified FRH-bodied build with fan bracing, it is made from a solid Sitka spruce top and sapele back and sides.
It features a 22-fret walnut fretboard emblazoned with Henson's eye-catching Tree of Death inlay design, and a C-shape nyatoh neck – all the same specs that made the rightie model so popular.
Tim Henson Showcases His Nylon Signature Ibanez TOD10N - YouTube
Its sleek design is iced with a walnut bridge and gold classical tuners, with its tones ushering out from a Fishman S-Core pickup and augmented with Ibanez's AEQ210TF preamp with an onboard tuner.
The pickup is active, so a 9V battery is a requirement, but well worth it for an authentic-sounding nylon that benefits from the thin, speed-friendly genetics of an Ibanez electric guitar.
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The Ibanez TOD10NL is available today and costs $699.99. As with the right-handed version, it is only available in Transparent Black.
A freelance writer with a penchant for music that gets weird, Phil is a regular contributor to Prog, Guitar World, and Total Guitar magazines and is especially keen on shining a light on unknown artists. Outside of the journalism realm, you can find him writing angular riffs in progressive metal band, Prognosis, in which he slings an 8-string Strandberg Boden Original, churning that low string through a variety of tunings. He's also a published author and is currently penning his debut novel which chucks fantasy, mythology and humanity into a great big melting pot.