The 679 is a Concord series acoustic guitar model introduced by Ibanez for 1974. It was crafted in Japan.
The 679 features a dreadnought body with a fine grained spruce top on a 3-piece jacaranda and flamed maple back and jacaranda sides with nitrocellulose lacquer finish. The round soundhole is trimmed with abalone wood marquetry rosette and a tortoise shell color pickguard. The mahogany neck has a 21-fret brazilian rosewood fingerboard, abalone hexagon position markers with black side dots and a matching headstock. Components include a plastic saddle in a rosewood bridge with black bridge pins and white dots, a plastic nut, and chrome plated machine heads.
The 677 is related model with selected rosewood back and sides. The 678 is a related model with a 3-piece rosewood and maple back and rosewood sides.
