Despite the RG name, the RG1200 has the rounded-edge body style and swoopy, rounded headstock of the older Roadstar body. It has a tone chamber routed out of the body under the pickguard. The RG1200 features an ash body with a flame maple top bolted to a maple neck with a 24-fret ebony fingerboard with dot position markers. Components include Ibanez active pickups with a humbucker at the bridge and single-coils in the middle and neck positions and an Edge double locking tremolo bridge. For 1987, the Back Stop tremolo stabilizer was added and the combination of the Edge trem, Back Stop and Top-Lok III nut was marketed as the "Sure Bet Tuning System."