The 496 is a semi-hollow body electric guitar model introduced by Ibanez for 1968. It was made in Japan.
The 496 features a thinline double cutaway semi-hollow body design with arched mahogany top with ƒ holes and mahogany on back and sides and carmel sunburst finish bolted to a mahogany neck with a 21-fret rosewood fingerboard with white binding, pearloid dot position markers and a black open-book headstock. Components include a pair of maxom single-coil pickup's with separate polepiece, individual volume and tone controls and two switches to activate each pickup, a black pickguard, a rosewood bridge with a chrome plated Bigsby style tremolo, a bone nut and Ibanez chrome plated machine heads.
