The AE245JR features a downsized body with a Venetian cutaway shape constructed of a solid okume top with scalloped cross-bracing on laminated okume sides and back with Tone Projection cross bracing with a gloss finish. The soundhole is round with an abalone and maple rosette. It has a satin-finished nyatoh neck with a 607mm (23⅞") scale and a 20-fret katalox fingerboard with special mother of pearl position markers. Components include a compensated bone saddle in an ovangkol bridge with Ibanez Advantage pins, a bone nut, a tortoise pickguard and chrome open gear tuning machines. Electronics consist of a T-bar undersaddle pickup connected to an Ibanez Custom Electronics preamp mounted internally with a ¼" endpin output.