“I didn’t realise how diverse,eclectic andinnovative my guitar collection was”: Steve Vai’s monster guitar collection to be documented in epic upcoming book – and there’s a $25,350 Ultra Edition that includes a super limited edition Ibanez JEM

Wire & Wood: The Guitars of Steve Vai.

Steve Vai’s guitars and the story of his groundbreaking Ibanez signature guitar, the JEM, is to be documented in a truly epic coffee-table book with a heavyweight 1,000-plus page count – and Vai describes it is “a masterpiece”.

Wire & Wood: The Guitars Of Steve Vai is the work of Michael Mesker, who took five years to complete the book. The task took Mesker around the world in search of some of the more obscure instruments in the Vai canon. Many of these electric guitars were no longer in Vai’s possession.