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The AEWC11 is an AEW series acoustic/ electric guitar model introduced by Ibanez for 2020. It is produced in China.

The AEWC11 features a grand concert shaped body with a soft Florentine cutaway. The top is laminated spruce with black and white binding on sapele back and sides with a gloss finish. The round soundhole has a black & white acrylic rosette. t has a nyatoh neck with a 25" scale, a Comfort Grip profile, and a satin finish, and a 20-fret walnut fingerboard with offset white dot position markers. Components include a plastic saddle in a top loading walnut bridge (eliminating the need for bridge pins), a plastic nut, and chrome Ibanez die-cast tuning machines.

Electronics consist of a Fishman Sonicore pickup connected to an Ibanez AEQ-SP1 preamp with onboard tuner powered by a 9V battery and feeding a ¼" output jack. The pickup was renamed the S-Core for 2024, but it is the same unit.

The body was made slightly longer for 2022; the neck profile was also renamed, but the dimensions were unchanged.

The AEWC10 is a similar model with opaque finishes.

Specifications[]

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Specifications for AEWC11
Name: AEWC11
Year(s) offered: 2020–2024
Sold in: Americas & Oceania / Asia & Africa / China 2020–2022 / Europe
Made in: China
Finishes: Dark Violin Sunburst High Gloss (DVS) 2021–2024 / Natural Browned Burst High Gloss (NNB) 2020 / Transparent Charcoal Burst Low Gloss (TCB)
Body
Body type:
Acoustic
Body shape:
AEWC grand concert body shape w/ soft Florentine cutaway
Dimensions:
  Length: 2020–2021: 489mm/ 19¼"
2022–2024: 492mm/ 19⅜"
  Width: 381mm/ 15"
  Depth: 102mm/ 4" (85mm at neck joint/ 100mm at body end)
Top:
  Material: Spruce (laminated)
  Finish: finish dependent
  Binding: Black & white
Back/sides:
  Material: Sapele (laminated)
Soundhole shape:
Round
Soundhole rosette:
Black & white acrylic
Neck
Neck profile:
2020–2021: AEWC
2022–2024: AEWC Comfort Grip
Neck material:
1-piece nyatoh
Neck finish:
Satin
Scale length:
634mm/ 25"
Fingerboard:
Walnut
Inlays:
Offset white dot
Frets:
20 nickel silver
Nut:
Plastic (43mm)
Machine heads:
Ibanez die-cast w/ black buttons
Electronics/ Components
Pickup:
2020–2023: Fishman Sonicore
2024: Fishman S-Core
Preamp:
Ibanez AEQ-SP1 w/ onboard tuner
Output jack(s):
¼" mono
Battery:
9V
Bridge:
Walnut (11mm string spacing)
Bridge pins:
None (top-loading)
Saddle:
Plastic compensated
Hardware color:
Chrome
Strings (factory):
.012/.016/.024/.032/.042/.053 (Ibanez IACS6C coated)
Factory tuning:
1E,2B,3G,4D,5A,6E (E Std.)

Images[]

Other finishes
2020 AEWC11 NNB 5B 01
Natural Browned Burst High Gloss
2021 AEWC11 DVS 5B 01
Dark Violin Sunburst High Gloss
Additional details
2023 AEWC11 TCB 5B 02 back
Rear (AMS finish)
2023 AEWC11 TCB 5B 02 front-3-4
Front ¾ view
2023 AEWC11 TCB 5B 02 body-back
Back & top side (AMS finish)
2023 AEWC comfort-body
AEWC comfort body contours
2023 AEWC11 TCB 5B 02 headstock-back
Headstock rear and Ibanez tuners
2023 AEWC top-loading-bridge
Top-loading walnut bridge
2023 AEQ-SP1 preamp
AEQ-SP1 w/ onboard tuner
Ibanez AEQ-SP1 preamp diagram
AEQ-SP1 controls

Sources[]

  • AEWC11 product page 2020, Ibanez Europe, archived January 2020
  • AEWC11 product page 2021, Ibanez China, archived January 2021
  • AEWC11 product page 2022, Ibanez Americas & Oceania, archived June 2022
  • AEWC11 product page 2023, Ibanez Asia & Africa, archived January 2023
  • AEWC11 product page 2024, Ibanez Europe, archived January 2024
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