I never thought I would find a great sounding PRS. It took me 30 years to find one... In my experience, over 95% of PRS guitars just sound dead. I almost gave up until I was lucky to get this in Japan:
Its a 1993 PRS Custom 24 with Ten Top.
Its got the old locking tuners...
Confirmed by PRS that it was one of the last to receive a Brazilian Rosewood Fingerboard (you don't get to see that nowadays very often)
Close up of the Birds ... I guess prior to all the CNC crap today
Moodys Strap to go with it....
The old PRS neck taper and color. By the way, this color combination is what made PRS famous -- yellow on red
That neck joint. You will NOT see that anymore today. And I will tell you that this is the most comfortable neck joint made by PRS. All that stability [gooey brown stuff] to justify their new neck is just bull.
Original one piece MANNMADE bridge. You also won't see that today anymore.
Observe the curvature of the horns compared to today's which are thicker and less sexy.
Look at the subtlety of the depressions on the top for the knobs.
Old HFS pickups... They sound killer on this guitar. I decided not to touch them anymore and break the habit of changing stock pickups.
Gorgeous Ten Top ... just like they used to unlike a lot of modern PRS that don't have as much crossing figure.
Another angle of the Ten Top with a different action
Yet another angle of the top with different action. From this shot, observe the 3D ridge like figure of the top.
This guitar is even prettier in person and DEFINES THE UNIQUE SOUND OF PRS