PRS guitars have come a long way since there humble beginnings. Becoming the gold standard of quality in the guitar business was a remarkable achievement for PRS, equally impressive has been its maintaining that standard as the company has grown into a major industry presence. While PRS’s continuing success in this regard demands a constant re-evaluation of materials, tools, and procedures, the bottom-line goal hasn’t changed since the days when Paul Smith hand-crafted his first instruments in an upstairs loft: Build extraordinary guitars, guitars with magic.
The best sounding soapbar guitar on the planet. Using special pickups designed and voiced by Seymour Duncan to the specs of our R&D department. Some soapbars compromise strength to achieve certain goals; these pickups do not. They aren’t humbuckers, but they sure sound good, with definition, robustness and thick punch of the original soapbar single coils that defined the sound of both rock and roll and combo jazz guitar in the ‘50s and ‘60s. Our example uses a solid mahogany body rather than the maple topped, two piece version being produced today providing rich resonance and sustain.Body
Solid Mahogany Body
Neck
25'' scale length mahogany 22-fret neck with rosewood fretboard and moon inlays
Neck carve - wide fat
Hardware
PRS stoptail
Vintage style tuners
Electronics
Specially voiced Seymour Duncan Soapbar single coil treble & bass pickups
Volume and tone control with 3-way toggle pickup selector