Top: 5A Quilted Maple
Back: Mahogany
Board: Rosewood
Inlay: Birds
Binding: Maple
Electronics: Dual Humbuckers
Condition: Mint
Warranty: n/a
Retail Price:
This is one of the most amazing PRS guitars I've had my hands on to date.
This is a Paul Reed Smith Custom 22, built with a top of clearly master
grade 5A quilted maple, and equipped with the PRS Artist package. This set-neck
instrument has a 25" scale, and is fitted with the PRS wrap-around
stoptail bridge. Dual Dragon II humbuckers are onboard, and are selected
via a 5-position rotary switch that allows either or both pickups to be
selected, with the addition of two coil-tap (and possibly phase switching?)
settings in positions 2 and 4. This gives you a wonderful variety of tones,
from thicker LP-type sounds, to clean and articulate single-coil tones.
The Artist Package includes artist grade wood for the top, Paua bird inlays,
a rosewood headstock overlay with inlaid Paua signature, gold hardware,
and a leather hardshell case.
In addition to being a guitar dealer, I am also a guitar player and guitar
lover. My band currently rehearses twice a week, and since we have a nice,
large rehearsal space at our disposal, that's usually the place where I
like to take new guitar arrivals to find out what they're all about. Oh,
plus my Bad Cat Black Cat is over there! My band is getting used to a never-ending
parade of different instruments coming through (I have my standbys but always
try to work in one new arrival a week.) After a trial run with this PRS,
everyone commented that they really enjoyed the tone and thought that I
played better on this guitar! I didn't know how to take that second statement,
but I'd agree that I found it super-comfortable, and that my faster single-note
runs came out sounding very clean and articulate (we've been working on
a piece with an intricate guitar melody.) My drummer, who is also a woodworker
by trade, flipped out over the top wood, too. He also plays guitar, but
his guitar dreams are way bigger than his guitar budget - otherwise, I know
he would have scraped and scrounged to make it his.
This is a special PRS - as you know, you can spend many times this much
on Private Stock PRS guitars, but I can't see you ending up with a better
PRS from a tone/playability standpoint. And since this one has killer looks
to boot, it's got everything you need out of a PRS at an excellent price.
Includes leather hardshell case and case candy. Condition is mint - it's
spectacular.
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