Ibanez AE240JR

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 full sized body, traditional scale neck.

Body

• Top Wood: Solid Okoume
• Back/Sides Wood: Okoume
• Body Shape: AE Junior
• Body Finish: Satin Polyurethane
• Bracing: Ibanez Original Scalloped X Bracing / Tone Projection Back Bracing
• Soundhole Rosette: Abalone & Maple

Neck

• Neck Wood: Nyatoh
• Neck Profile: AE
• Neck Finish: Satin Polyurethane
• Scale Length: 24″ (607 mm)
• Fingerboard Wood: Ovangkol
• Fingerboard Radius: 15.75″ (400 mm)
• Number of Frets: 20
• Inlays: White Dot
• String Spacing: 11 mm
• Nut Type: Bone
• Nut Width: 1.7″ (43 mm)

Electronics

• Pickup: Ibanez T-Bar Undersaddle
• Special Electronics: Ibanez Custom Electronics Preamp

Hardware

• Bridge: Ovangkol
• Bridge Pins: Ibanez Advantage
• Saddle: Compensated Bone
• Tuning Machines: Chrome Open-Gear (18:1 Gear Ratio)

Miscellaneous

• Factory Tuning: 1E, 2B, 3G, 4D, 5A, 6E
• Strings: D’Addario XTAPB1152 (11-52)
• Case: Gig Bag (Included)