Description
Description
Each year, the CME team travels to the PRS Private Stock in Stevensville, Maryland to select woods and design some one of a kind PRS guitars. The wood set pictured in this listing is the raw wood that was selected during our April 2025 visit. The specifications below will give you a better idea of the guitar we envisioned. If you have questions about this build or PRS Private Stock in general, please contact one of our experts via chat, email, or phone.
The PRS Private Stock program began in 1996 as a boutique building team within the PRS factory in Stevensville, Maryland, specially tasked with making the most personally crafted electric guitars available anywhere in the world. Conceived and built with a "one-off" mentality aiming to deliver heirloom-quality musical instruments, all PRS Private Stock instruments boast unprecedented levels of customization.
As Paul Reed Smith himself has said: “They are simultaneously musical instruments, pieces of art, tools to joyfully spend time with, and treasured possessions. The goal of Private Stock is not only to create the most beautiful and best-playing guitar money can buy, but the best sounding. If you decide on a Private Stock guitar, we will give everything we have to make it the best instrument you’ve ever experienced.”
Woods
CME’s premium guitar-buying team works closely with the Private Stock team to select tonewoods from the private stash in “the vault” outside Paul’s office at the PRS headquarters.
Like a fingerprint, each piece of wood housed in “the vault” is slightly different in figure, weight, and hue—each serving as the unique sonic and visual foundation of every PRS Private Stock instrument.
Finishes
Highlighting the elegance and figure of the woods we chose, the finish on every PRS Private Stock guitar imbues each with its own personal aesthetic, making a definitive visual statement.
Inlays
From the design itself to the materials used, the PRS Private Stock program offers nearly infinite inlay options and combinations to personalize each instrument.
Cases
Every Private Stock instrument comes with a case chosen not only to protect the instrument but to reflect the attention to detail and the aesthetically arresting instrument it holds.
Specs
Specs
General
| Series: | PRS Private Stock |
| Country of Manufacture: | Made in the USA |
| Serial Number: | 0417199 |
| Product Color: | Blood Red Glow |
| Case Type: | Hardshell Case Included |
| Factory Setup: | E Standard (E-A-D-G-B-E) |
Body
| Body Shape: | Double Cutaway |
| Body Material: | Swamp Ash (Hand-Selected by CME at PRS Private Stock) |
| Body Finish: | High-Gloss Nitrocellulose |
| Top Material: | Curly Maple (Hand-Selected by CME at PRS Private Stock) |
Neck
| Neck Material: | Macassar Ebony (Hand-Selected by CME at PRS Private Stock) |
| Neck Finish: | Oil Only |
| Neck Tint/Color: | Natural |
| Neck Shape: | Pattern |
| Fingerboard Material: | Flame Maple & Ebony (Hand-Selected by CME at PRS Private Stock) |
| Headstock Veneer: | Ebony (Hand-Selected by CME at PRS Private Stock) |
| Nut Material: | Bone |
| Nut Width: | 1.687" |
| Fingerboard Radius: | 10" |
| Scale Length: | 25" |
| Number of Frets: | 22 Frets |
| Neck Joint: | One-Piece Set Neck |
| Fingerboard Inlay: | Bats in Flight Curly Maple & Ebony |
| Inlay Shape: | Custom Symbol |
| Side Marker Inlay: | White Delrin |
| Headstock Inlay/Decal: | Bats in Flight Curly Maple & Ebony |
| Neck Binding: | None |
Electronics
| Bridge Pickup: | ME V TCI Humbucker |
| Middle Pickup: | Narrowfield Single Coil |
| Neck Pickup: | ME V TCI Humbucker |
| Controls and Switching: | Volume and Push/Pull Tone Controls with 5-Way Blade Pickup Switch and Two Mini-Toggle EQ Switches |
Hardware
| Hardware Color: | Smoked Black |
| Bridge: | PRS Patented Tremolo, Gen III |
| Tailpiece: | PRS Patented Tremolo, Gen III |
| Tuning Machines: | PRS Phase III Locking Tuners with Wing Buttons |
| Fret Wire: | PRS Standard |
| Saddle: | Metal |
| Truss Rod Cover: | Bats in Flight |
| Knobs: | Black Lampshade |
| Switch Cap: | black |