The V40CE features a cutaway dreadnought body with a laminated spruce top on meranti back and sides with an open pore finish. The round soundhole has a laser engraved rosette. The meranti neck has a 20-fret nandu fingerboard with small white dot position markers. Components include a compensated plastic saddle in a nandu bridge with black Ibanez Advantage bridge pins, a plastic nut, and chrome Ibanez open gear tuning machines.