Only twenty eight of these guitars will ever be made for the world market. Digital Village has secured the only PRS Paul's 28 electric guitar assigned to the UK. If you are seriously interested in buying this hand crafted PRS and wish to arrange a personal viewing, please e-mail paulreedsmith@digitalvillage.co.uk.
A Note from Paul Reed Smith
As you may know, Private Stock, our wood buyers, and I have been putting away the rarest wood and materials for over a decade. This instrument has one of the curliest tops we have ever seen in our history (from a tree I obtained by trading a Dragon I), a rare ribbon-striped mahogany back that was hand-selected from an entire warehouse of wood, so rare it can’t even be called rare Pernumbuca neck blank (nobody’s ever seen one before), an exotic black rosewood fretboard, a dark Mexican rosewood headstock veneer, and solid-shell Rippled Green Abalone, Paua Heart, and Mammoth Ivory “Celtic Cross&rdquo inlays.
In addition, I’ve spent several years refining all of the parts and processes that went into this instrument: the wood drying methods, the colour (called “Burnt Gold” - I have been working on this stain method for the last two years), the very special paper-thin nitrocellulose finish, the pickups (PRS proprietary 1957/2008 pickups made from our rare magnet and wire supplies), the nut, the tuning pegs, the frets, the glues…everything….I even spent two years researching the materials for the case. There is no part that has not been deliberately chosen.
The craftsmanship on this instrument has been meticulously carried out as well. I personally supervised the work and personally worked on this instrument throughout its creation. I picked out all the woods, re-carved the body to original shop specs, carved the neck by hand, stained it, helped finish it, helped sand it, spec’d out all of the pickups, and played and adjusted it until it was “right”. Essentially, I lovingly looked after this instrument being built on a daily basis and made sure it was right in every way.
I believe the electric guitar is essentially “the violin of our time”, and believe many of the guitar virtuosos today would have played violin hundreds of years ago. My goal was to build an instrument that has the look, sound, feel, care and value of the finest violins. My hope is that this instrument and its brothers and sisters are something new for our company and the industry. I hope you enjoy it.
Thank you for believing. They are a lifetime in the making.
Sincerely,
Paul Reed Smith