Lot #132: IBANEZ AEL50SERLV Cutaway Acoustic-Electric Guitar

The AEL50SE is an AEL series acoustic-electric guitar model introduced by Ibanez for 2005. It was produced in China. The AEL50SE features a jumbo-sized AEL body with a soft Venetian cutaway constructed of a solid spruce top on laminated flamed sycamore sides and back with a resonant low gloss finish mated to a mahogany neck with a 20-fret rosewood fingerboard with wooden vine position markers. The soundhole is round with an abalone rosette. Components include a compensated Ivorex II saddle in a rosewood bridge with Ibanez Advantage pins, an Ivorex II nut, and gold Ibanez Smooth Tuner AS tuning machines. Electronics consist of a B-Band SquealRepeal under saddle pickup mated to an Ibanez SRT Shape Shifter preamp with shape control and on-board tuner powered by a 9V cell and feeding balanced XLR and ¼" outputs. In mid-2006 the pickup was changed to the B-Band UST and the preamp was changed to the Ibanez SRTn preamp with notch filter. Pickup category timeslot {A}