The AE245JR is a short-scale AE series acoustic/electric guitar model introduced by Ibanez in mid-2017. It was produced in China.
The AE245JR features a downsized body with a Venetian cutaway shape constructed of a solid mahogany top with scalloped cross-bracing on laminated mahogany 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 mahogany neck with a 607mm (23⅞") scale and a 20-fret ovangkol 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.
For 2019 the top was changed to solid okoume, the back and sides were changed to laminated okoume and the neck from mahogany to nyatoh; the ovangkol fretboard was retained for the model sold in Japan, but was switched to katalox for models sold in the USA. For 2021 the body length was very slightly increased.
The AE245 is a related model with a full sized body and a longer scale neck. The AE205JR is a similar model with a Sitka spruce top.
The AE245JR was discontinued after 2022 and replaced by the AE240JR which is similar but has simple dot fretboard inlays.
