PRS Paul Reed Smith Wood Library Custom 24 Guitar, Ebony Fingerboard, Figured Maple Neck, Ash Body, Quilt Top, Satin Charcoal Jade Burst

PLAYER'S PERSPECTIVE

We're stoked to bring you another beautiful PRS Wood Library instrument! In a collaborative effort with our team here at the shop, PRS hand-selected the top, back, neck, fretboard, visual appointments, and hardware just for us. Every single detail of this guitar was painstakingly chosen for the perfect aesthetics, playability, and tone. This Custom 24 in Satin Charcoal Jade Burst is truly the best of the best, featuring a swamp ash body, a 10-Top quilt maple top, a figured maple neck, ebony fingerboard and the killer \m/ pickup set!

The neck is absolutely divine from top to bottom and the tone of this guitar is snappy and bright while having lots of warmth and presence in the bottom end. The combination of the figured maple and dark ebony fretboard (and matching veneer!) is simply gorgeous. From top to bottom, and from front to back, there's no shortage of both ear and eye candy built into this guitar.

Sonically, we went with PRS's "metal" pickups for this run, which are certainly a bit overwound, but are far from being one-trick ponies. They're obviously going to sound stellar with higher gain settings, but clean up very nicely and can handle crystalline tones with ease. Rather than thinking of them as strictly "metal" pickups, they're really just slightly more aggressive-sounding versions of the typical 85/15s.

We pour a lot of passion into each guitar that we concoct with the PRS team. The goal is always to design instruments that are not only unique and look beautiful, but also sound absolutely phenomenal. This one fits the bill - it's definitely a lean, mean, shredding machine!

Details

The Custom 24 is the quintessential PRS guitar. This iconic instrument was the first model that Paul Reed Smith brought to the public at PRS Guitars’ first Winter NAMM show in 1985 and has been a top seller ever since. Played by internationally touring artists, gigging musicians, and aspiring players, the Custom 24 features PRS’s patented Gen III tremolo system with volume and tone controls and a 5-way blade switch. PRS pickups were personally designed by Paul Reed Smith to offer remarkable clarity and extended high and low end.

The Custom 24 is the original PRS. Since its introduction, it has offered a unique tonal option for serious players and defined PRS tone and playability.

It’s All in the Details: TCI-Tuned Pickups

Paul Reed Smith is known as a man who studies history, scrutinizes the details, and never stops applying what he learns to his own instruments. It is that passion, care, and tenacity that has permeated PRS Guitars’ culture and led to the constant evolution of PRS products. Last year, PRS announced TCI (tuned capacitance and inductance) pickups on Paul's Guitar. But, TCI is more than a pickup, it’s a process. That process has now been applied to all PRS pickups offered on our Core line of instruments, with the exception of a few artist Signature models.

“TCI stands for Tuned Capacitance Inductance. When you wind a pickup, the coils are capacitors, resistors, and inductors simultaneously. Our more refined ability to be able to tune those factors is what we have incorporated into TCI pickups,” said Paul Reed Smith. “To our ears, the results are very musical. We are very proud of how far we’ve come in the understanding and making of pickups. It’s been a fun process.”

Unique to this guitar are the following features:

• Satin Charcoal Jade Burst Finish
• Swamp Ash Body
• Hand-Picked Quilt Maple 10-Top
• Hand-Picked Ebony Fretboard
• Hand-Picked Figured Maple Neck
• Smoked Black Hardware
• \m/ "Metal" Pickups
• J-Bird (2008 Outline) Inlays