Ibanez FRH20 Nylon Acoustic/Electric Guitar - Cosmic Blue Sunburst Low Gloss

The Ibanez FRH series is built on a simple idea: take the warm, woody character of a nylon-string and put it in a body an electric player will actually want to pick up. The FRH20QMN is the upgrade — a quilted maple top in Cosmic Blue Starburst Low Gloss over sapele back and sides, with the same compact, thin FRH body that started the whole conversation.

The "no sound hole on the top" approach is the headline design choice. With the soundhole moved to the side (where you, the player, can hear it clearly), the guitar fights feedback the way a thin-line electric does — useful on stage, easy to live with at home. Fan bracing, like a traditional classical, keeps the acoustic voice warm and natural through the quilted maple and sapele combination. Plug it in and the Ibanez Undersaddle pickup runs through an AEQ210T preamp with onboard tuner, volume, bass, and treble. Straightforward, gig-ready, no learning curve.

Where this guitar earns its place is the neck. A 46mm nut and a 400mm (15.75") radius fretboard is unusually narrow and unusually flat for a nylon-string — much closer to electric-guitar geometry than the wide, flat boards you'd find on a traditional classical. For an electric player who's wanted to add nylon-string sounds to a recording or set without relearning their left hand, that spec sheet is the entire pitch. The set-in nyatoh neck, rosewood fretboard, bone nut and saddle, and gold classical tuners round it out. Acrylic and abalone block inlays replace the open fretboard you'll find on Tim Henson's signature TOD10N — a cleaner, more traditional look on a guitar that otherwise leans modern.

Body shape: FRH body
Bracing: Fan Bracing for FRH
Top: Quilted Maple top
Back & sides: Sapele back & Sapele sides
Neck: C shape Nyatoh Set-in neck
Fretboard: Rosewood fretboard
Bridge: Rosewood bridge
Inlay: Acrylic and Abalone block inlay
Tuning machine: Gold Classical tuners
Nut material: Bone
Number of frets: 22
Saddle material: Bone
Strings: D'Addario® XTC45
String gauge: .028/.032/.040/.028W/.035W/.044W
String space: 11.6mm
Factory tuning: 1E, 2B, 3G, 4D, 5A, 6E
Pickup: Ibanez Undersaddle
Preamp: Ibanez AEQ210T preamp w/Onboard tuner
Output jack: 1/4" output
Battery: 9V x1
Scale: 648mm/25.5"
Nut width: 46mm
Width at 14F: 58mm
Finish: Cosmic Blue Starburst Low Gloss