Description
The AE240JR is a short-scale AE series acoustic-electric guitar model introduced by Ibanez in mid-2017. It is produced in China replacing the AE245JR which is similar aside from its fretboard inlays.
The AE240JR features a downsized body with a Venetian cutaway shape constructed of a solid okoume top with scalloped cross-bracing on laminated okoume sides and back with Tone Projection cross bracing with a gloss finish. The soundhole is round with an abalone and maple rosette and a red tortoise pickguard. It has a satin-finished nyatoh neck with a 607mm (23⅞”) scale and a 20-fret ovangkol fingerboard with white dot position markers. Components include a compensated bone saddle in an ovangkol bridge with Ibanez Advantage pins, a bone nut, and chrome open gear tuning machines. Electronics consist of a T-bar undersaddle pickup connected to an Ibanez Custom Electronics preamp mounted internally, powered by a pair of button cells, and feeding a ¼” endpin output.
The AE245 is a related model with a fu…