PRS LTD Custom 24 Mango Blood Orange #0421422
Product information "PRS LTD Custom 24 Mango Blood Orange #0421422"
The Custom 24 Mango Limited Edition combines the legendary playability and tonal versatility of the Custom 24 with a stunning figured mango top and a luxurious ziricote fretboard.
Equipped with PRS DMO Pickups, a 5-way switch and the Gen III Tremolo, it delivers an impressively wide sound spectrum – from brilliant cleans to powerful, singing leads. Perfect for studio and stage.
Each top is unique – organic, lively and full of character. Limited to just 200 pieces.
- Body Material: Mahogany
- Body Shape: Double Cut
- Body finish: High Gloss Nitro
- Bridge / Tremolo: PRS Patented Tremolo, Gen III
- Bridge Pickup: PRS DMO
- Color/ Finish: Blood Orange
- Colour: Orange
- Controls: 1x volume, 1x tone
- Country of Origin: USA
- Custom shop: yes
- Factory Stringing: PRS Signature 10-46
- Finish: High Gloss Nitro
- Fretboard: Ziricote
- Fretboard Inlays: Birds
- Fretboard radius: 10"
- Frets: 24
- Fret size: .104" x .047" (2,64 mm × 1,19 mm)
- Hardware: Smoked Black
- Includes: Case & certificate
- Neck: 1 pc. Mahogany
- Neck Pickup: PRS DMO
- Neck Profile: Pattern Thin
- Neck construction: Set in neck
- Neck finish: High Gloss Nitro
- Nut Width: 1.6875" (42.86 mm)
- Nut material: PRS-patentiert
- Pickup Configuration: H-H (2x Humbucker)
- Pickup Cover: Black
- Pickup Selector Switch: 5-way switch
- Pickup type: passive
- Pot Caps: Clear
- Scale: 25" (635 - 659 mm)
- Scale Length: 25" (635 mm)
- Serial number: #0421422
- Signature Model: no
- Special Features: Limited special model
- Strings: 6 string
- Strings thickness ex factory: .010 - .046
- Technology: Solid Body
- Top: Figured Mango
- Tuning Machines: PRS Phase III Locking Tuners with Wing Buttons
- Weight: 3,25 kg
PRS's success story began in 1985 with the introduction of the first Custom 24 guitars at NAMM. Now the guitars are back in the range in an evolved form.
The guitars feature a mahogany body in a double-cut design with a maple top. The set neck is also mahogany with a rosewood fretboard. The guitars are equipped with two humbuckers that can be controlled via a 5-way switch. When it comes to hardware, the Custom 24 series doesn't shy away. With PRS's own Gen III tremolo and locking tuners, also from PRS, the guitars are exceptionally well equipped. To live up to the "Custom" in the name, there are a total of 14 different finishes to choose from. The guitars are produced in Stevensville, Maryland, in the same guitar workshop where the Private Stock guitars are made.
If you want an overview of the different finishes of the Custom 24 series, you'll find a series overview here.
PRS Guitars sets its own standards when it comes to electric guitars. At session you'll find not only the high-class PRS Custom Shop guitars but also mid-range models and PRS electric basses. At NAMM 2016 PRS looked to the past and reintroduced CE 24 models to the main range after many years, featuring bolt-on and maple necks — an interesting alternative to the traditional construction. Later, a hugely successful instrument emerged through the collaboration with John Mayer: the Silver Sky series, which was initially expanded with more colours and later complemented by the more affordable SE series.
Through a great passion for guitar making and meticulous research and optimisation of his models, founder Paul Reed Smith has been creating instruments for over 40 years that are rightly regarded as true works of art. Not only guitar legends like Carlos Santana play the high-quality PRS guitars from the Standard line, the exclusive Private Stock or the more affordable SE production.
Paul Reed Smith makes a name for himself
Officially the American guitar maker PRS Guitars was founded in 1985, but founder and namesake Paul Reed Smith has been active in guitar making since around 1975. By giving his guitars to stars like Carlos Santana, Al Di Meola and Peter Frampton and convincing them directly, his instruments became increasingly well known. In 1985 serial production of the Custom 24 began. With former Gibson president Ted McCarty as an experienced advisor, Paul Reed Smith set the course for success for the guitars with the characteristic bird inlays on the fretboard.
Every guitar a Custom Shop model
PRS guitars are generally positioned at the higher price points due to high-quality materials and careful workmanship. Since the 1990s there has also been the SE line, manufactured in Korea, which despite more affordable materials still competes at a high quality level. The S2 series forms a bridge: the instruments are made in the USA but remain relatively affordable.
PRS refers to all its instruments as Custom Shop instruments because of the high quality and the options for customisation, but with the Private Stock instruments the company goes one step further and sets real benchmarks in terms of materials, quality, originality and individuality. One thing all PRS guitars have in common: they are true workhorses with great versatility and they look outrageously good. This is also evident from the countless endorsers who swear by their PRS, as well as the numerous signature models from artists like John Mayer, Carlos Santana, Orianthi, Mark Tremonti and Chad Kroeger.
