The AC240 is an Artwood series acoustic guitar model introduced by Ibanez in 2011. It was made in China.
The AC240 features a grand concert body shape with a solid mahogany top on mahogany back and sides with an open pore finish. The soundhole is round with an abalone rosette. It has a mahogany neck with a 20-fret rosewood fingerboard with small white dot position markers. Components include a compensated bone saddle in a rosewood bridge with black Ibanez Advantage bridge pins, a bone nut, a red tortoise pickguard and chrome Grover die-cast tuning machines with half moon buttons.
For 2018 the rosewood fretboard and bridge were replaced with ovangkol. For 2019 the mahogany top, back and sides were replaced with okoume and the mahogany neck was replaced with nyatoh.
The AC240L is a left-handed version. The AC240E is an acoustic/electric version. The AC340 is a related model with a Thermo Aged bridge, Ibanez tuners are different rosette. The AC2040 is a visually similar model with solid mahogany back and sides among other differences.
The AC240 was discontinued after 2019.
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- 2011 USA new product catalog (p. 43)
- AC240 product page 2013, Ibanez USA, archived April 2013
- 2014 North America catalog (p. 50)
- AC240 product page 2016, Ibanez USA, archived March 2016
- 2017 Japan catalog (p. 65)
- AC240 product page 2019, Ibanez USA, archived November 2019