The AW500K is an Artwood series acoustic guitar model introduced by Ibanez for 2014. It was a spot model which was made in China.
The AW500K features a dreadnought body shape with a solid Sitka spruce top with abalone purfling and rosewood binding on koa sides and back with a gloss finish. The soundhole is round with an abalone and wooden rosette and a yellow brown tortoise pickguard. It has a mahogany neck with a 20-fret rosewood fingerboard with special abalone position markers. Components include a compensated bone saddle in a rosewood bridge with black bridge pins with abalone dots, a bone nut, and gold die cast tuning machines with black buttons.
The AW500 is a similar model with rosewood back and sides.
