As with all JEM models the body features Vai's signature monkey grip on the upper body and lion's claw rout behind the tremolo. It has an all-white color pattern, with white body, headstock, pickups, pickguard, fingerboard inlay and knobs. The JEMJR features mahogany body mated to a maple Wizard II neck with a 24-fret rosewood fingerboard with Tree of Life vine inlays. Components include Ibanez Quantum pickups in an HSH configuration, a double locking tremolo bridge and a locking nut. The JEMJR represents a revival of sorts of the JEM-JR which was produced between 2002 and 2012.