The AE300 is an AE series acoustic/ electric guitar model introduced by Ibanez for 1982. It was produced in Japan.
The AE300 features a dreadnought shaped body with a soft venetian cutaway. The top is spruce with white and black binding on mahogany back and sides with a natural gloss finish. The oval soundhole has a black and white purfling rosette. It has a satin-finish mahogany neck with a 20-fret rosewood fingerboard with small white dot position markers black binding and white side dots. Components include a rosewood bridge with Tru-Tune saddle, plastic nut, and chrome covered tuning machines. Electronics consist of a piezo ceramic pickup with one volume and one tone control.
The pickup is placed under the bridge saddle to receive the maximun effects of the strings vibrations and soundboard tonal colorations. For 1983 the neck wood was changed to mahogany.
