The UEWT5 is an UEW series acoustic ukulele model introduced by Ibanez for 2016. It was made in China. The UEWT5J is an identical spot model offered in Japan in 2016.
The UEWT5 features a compact tenor style EW body with a soft Florentine cutaway and a laminated mahogany top on mahogany back and sides with an open pore finish. The round soundhole has an abalone rosette. It has a mahogany neck with a 19-fret rosewood fingerboard with maple dot position markers. Components include an ivory plastic saddle in a rosewood bridge, a plastic nut and chrome Ibanez open gear tuning machines.
For 2018 mahogany top, back and sides were changed to sapele and the rosewood fretboard was changed to purpleheart or treated New Zealand pine (depending on market) and the rosewood bridge was changed to purpleheart of ovangkol. For 2019 the mahogany neck was replaced with okoume and the fretboard and bridge were standardized as purpleheart.
