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At A Glance
- Body Shape
- Cutaway Tenor Style EW body
- Top
- Macassar Ebony
- Back & Sides
- Macassar Ebony back & Macassar Ebony sides
- Neck
- EWP / Okoume neck
- Fretboard
- Purpleheart fretboard
- Bridge
- Purpleheart
- Inlay
- Maple dot inlay
- Soundhole Rosette
- Abalone
- Tuning Machine
- Chrome Die-cast Tuner
- Nut Material
- Plastic
- Number of Frets
- 19
- Saddle Material
- Plastic
- Bridge Pins
- Ibanez Advantage
- String Gauge
- .010/.014/.023/.030/.039/.047
- String Space
- 9.6mm
- Factory Tuning
- 1A,2E,3C,4G,5D,6A
- Scale
- 432mm
- A : Width
- 42mm at NUT
- B : Width
- 50mm at 14F
- C : Thickness
- 20mm at 1F
- D : Thickness
- 21mm at 7F
- Radius
- 400mmR
- A : Length
- 19 1/4"
- B : Width
- 14 1/2"
- C : Max Depth
- 2 3/4"
- Finish
- Dark Brown Open Pore
Ibanez built the EWP13DBO as part of its EWP Series, positioning it as a cutaway tenor-style acoustic in the EW body format. The instrument carried a Dark Brown Open Pore finish and was configured to tenor tuning at the factory, making it a purpose-built tenor guitar rather than a standard six-string.
The body, top, back, and sides are all constructed from Macassar Ebony, while the neck is an EWP profile in Okoume. The fretboard and bridge are both Purpleheart, with Maple dot inlays and an Abalone soundhole rosette. Hardware consists of Chrome Die-cast tuners, plastic nut and saddle, and Ibanez Advantage bridge pins. The instrument runs 19 frets over a 432mm scale, with a 42mm nut width, 400mmR fretboard radius, and neck thickness of 20mm at the first fret and 21mm at the seventh. Factory tuning is 1A / 2E / 3C / 4G / 5D / 6A, and the instrument ships strung with a .010–.047 set at 9.6mm string spacing.
Owners sourcing replacement parts — particularly Purpleheart bridge components, Ibanez Advantage bridge pins, or a correctly sized plastic nut blank for the 42mm width — should consult a qualified luthier or guitar technician who can verify fit against the instrument's current dimensions.
STRAIGHT TALK
What Stands Out
Keep In Mind
From the people who own them
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The catalog shot showed one finish, under one light, a long time ago. Yours has been played. Photos from owners are what the next person finds when they are trying to identify a part, match a finish, or work out whether the one they just bought is really what the seller said it was.
What do you know about this one?
Specs only go so far. What actually fits, what breaks first, what the factory got right and what everyone ends up changing — that lives with the people who own them, not in a datasheet. Post what you know and it stays on this page for whoever comes looking next.
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