The AR300 features a double cutaway mahogany Artist body with maple top and back attached to a hard maple neck with a 22-fret bound ebony fingerboard with pearl and abalone block position markers. Components include an original Gibraltar fixed bridge, original Quik Change decorative tailpiece and dual Ibanez Super 80 humbucking pickups with individual volume and tone controls and tri-sound switches which offer parallel, series and coil-split tone options. The AR300 reissue was discontinued in 1998.