The UEW13MEE is an UEW series acoustic/ electric ukulele model introduced by Ibanez for 2019. It was produced in China.
The UEW13MEE features a concert style EW body with a soft Florentine cutaway constructed of laminated Macassar ebony top, back, and sides with an open pore finish. The round soundhole has a maple rosette. The okoume neck joins the body at the 14th fret and has a 19-fret purpleheart fingerboard with maple dot position markers. Components include an ivory plastic saddle in a purpleheart bridge, a plastic nut and chrome Grover open gear tuning machines.
The UEW13MEE's electronics consist of an Ibanez under saddle pickup connected to an AEQ2U preamp with onboard tuner powered by a pair of 2032 coin cells and feeding a ¼" endpin output jack.
The body depth was very slightly increased for 2024.
Several similar models have been produced with different body materials: UEW15E (flamed mahogany), UEW14E (ovangkol), UEW13E (bocote), UEW13E (bocote) and UEW12ACE (acacia). The UEW5E is a related model with a mahogany or sapele body, an abalone rosette and Ibanez tuners.
The UEW13MEE was discontinued after 2024.
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- UEW13MEE product page 2019, Ibanez USA, archived December 2019
- UEW13MEE product page 2020, Ibanez Japan, archived January 2020
- UEW13MEE product page 2021, Ibanez USA, archived January 2021
- 2021 Europe catalog (p. 135)
- UEW13MEE product page 2022, Ibanez USA, archived June 2022
- UEW13MEE product page 2023, Ibanez USA, archived January 2023
- UEW13MEE product page 2024, Ibanez USA, archived February 2024