The AC340CE is an Artwood series acoustic/ electric guitar model introduced by Ibanez in 2018. It was initially made in China, but production moved to Indonesia for 2023.
The AC340CE features a cutaway grand concert body shape a solid mahogany top with a Thermo Aged maple interior bridge plate and white binding on laminated mahogany sides and back with an open pore finish. The soundhole is round with a simple black and white acrylic rosette and a red tortoise pickguard. It has a satin finished mahogany neck with a 20-fret ovangkol fingerboard with white binding and small white dot position markers. Components include a compensated bone saddle in a Thermo Aged ovangkol bridge with black Ibanez Advantage bridge pins, a bone nut, and chrome Ibanez die-cast tuning machines. Electronics consist of a Fishman Sonicore pickup, an Ibanez AEQ-SP2 preamp with onboard tuner powered by a 9V battery and balanced XLR and ¼" outputs.
For 2019 the mahogany top, back and sides were replaced with okoume and the mahogany neck was replaced with nyatoh. For 2021 the body was very slightly enlarged.
The AC340 is a similar traditional acoustic model without the cutaway. The AC320CE is a similar model with a solid Sitka spruce top. The AC240E is a related model with a non-Thermo Aged bridge, abalone rosette and Grover tuners and without a cutaway body.
