PRS has unveiled the fortieth Anniversary McCarty SC56 Restricted Version, a single-cutaway mannequin that’s each “a tribute to custom and a contemporary performer’s dream”.

Restricted to only 400 items worldwide, the SC56 captures the essence of a golden period of electrical guitar design, whereas delivering the playability and reliability that trendy musicians demand.

Anchored by a maple prime and a “barely thicker” mahogany again, the guitar sports activities a 24.594” scale size Sample Classic mahogany neck and a 22-fret rosewood fingerboard with a PRS two-piece bridge “to advertise its musical maintain”.

The guts of the fortieth Anniversary McCarty SC56 lies in its pickups: a pair of PRS McCarty III pickups, designed to ship “heat, clear tone with distinctive notice separation and dynamics”. Controls come by the use of two Tone and two Quantity knobs, full with a 3-way toggle on the guitar’s higher bout.

To offset the standard heft of a single-cut, PRS employed a weight-relief design that trims round two-thirds of a pound whereas preserving key contact factors between the guitar’s prime and again. This maintains tonal integrity and avoids the “hole” sound these cavities can have.

Extra appointments embody vintage-styled Part III non-locking tuners with wing buttons, “old fashioned” birds inlays, fretboard binding, a fortieth Anniversary SC56 truss rod cowl and a high-gloss nitrocellulose end.

“The SC56, signifying Singlecut and 1956, mannequin is our most up-to-date tribute to my late mentor Ted McCarty and his impression on the guitar business,” says PRS founder Paul Reed Smith. “We began with our tackle a traditional late ‘50s singlecut physique. 1956 marks the yr that Ted first had guitars made together with his newly coined ‘humbucker’ pickups. It additionally occurs to be the yr I used to be born.”

“Bringing classic design into the fashionable period, we loaded this mannequin with our McCarty III pickups, meticulously designed to ship heat, clear, classic tone with distinctive notice separation and dynamics.”

Priced at $4950, the fortieth Anniversary McCarty SC56 Restricted Version is obtainable in three finishes: McCarty Sunburst, Light Blue Jean and Translucent Black.

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