This EX1500 features a light American maple body mated to a one-piece maple neck with a traditional neck joint with a metal plate. It has a 22-fret maple fingerboard with dot position markers. The pickups, which are mounted in a pickguard, are Ibanez Powersound humbuckers in the bridge and neck positions flanking a single coil. Other components include a synchronized tremolo bridge. The EX1700 is a similar model with a bound body, a different tremolo and no pickguard. This EX1500 was discontinued after 1993 along with the rest of the EX line.