From Paul Reed Smith:

“I dont just like my guitar, I love it. With these pickups, I can move from a strong bridge pickup to a very clear, whoopy neck pickup you can hear every note by just setting the mini-toggles and using the 3-way as normal. Its a highly musical and very usable setup. This guitar has clear, spanky single coils when you split the pickups but a very full soapbar quality when they are in humbucking mode. Its just beautiful. – Paul Reed Smith

Historically, the Pauls Guitar (like the Modern Eagle before it) has been a realization of Paul Reed Smiths latest discoveries surrounding tone. Paul specified every appointment of this instrument from the wood selection and inlay design to the pickups. This revamped model represents Pauls vision not only as a guitar maker but as a guitar player who needs versatile stage – and studio-ready gear that can achieve all the right tones. As a man who has every option available to him, Pauls personal design choices include mahogany bodies with maple tops, Honduran rosewood fretboards, Nitrocellulose finishes, Brushstroke bird inlays, and narrow pickup bobbins. The Pauls Guitar model also includes PRSs TCI (Tuned Capacitance and Inductance) treble and bass pickups with two mini-toggle switches that allow players to put either or both pickups in either humbucking or single coil mode.

For 2024, PRS Guitars is updating the tuning machines on many of our Core guitars. While, aesthetically, our new Wing buttons are designed to echo the 12th fret bird wingspan design, they were first and foremost designed for tonal reasons all the way back in 1982. Because these buttons are lighter weight than their metal predecessors, they are subtracting less energy from the vibrating strings, thus helping the guitar ring longer and at a more musical note. The removal of the tuners locking feature on non-tremolo-equipped guitars further decreases their weight.”

Tobacco Wrap Burst, Carved figured Maple 10 top, Mahogany body, Pattern Mahogany neck, 10″ radius Honduran Rosewood fingerboard with the Brushstroke Bird inlays, 25″ scale length, 1 11/16th” nut width, TCI bridge and neck pickups, 3-way toggle switching with the volume and tone controls plus the two mini toggle coil tap switches, PRS stoptail bridge with the Brass inserts and PRS Phase III non-locking tuners, 7.8 pounds, With hardshell case.