Review: Gold Member — PRS Guitars Private Stock SC 58
Inside Paul Reed Smith's highly coveted wood library, originally called the Private Stash, is a collection of valuables worthy of Fort Knox–like security, yet accessible to those who dream of building the ultimate high-end custom guitar.
For years, Smith amassed some of the finest quilted, curly, and flamed examples of popular tonewoods, as well as many more exotic and figured species, all of it impressively stockpiled as the launch pad for the PRS Guitars Private Stock guitar program. The Private Stock program is foremost a custom shop that builds some of the most stunning one-of-a-kind, personal instruments for customers and dealers, but it also serves as a birthplace to many inspiring designs that occasionally become part of the PRS core line.
Private Stock originally grew from PRS's innovative Guitar of the Month program, which generated enough interest for Smith to quickly assemble a custom shop headed by himself and director Paul Miles, with 11 master-class luthiers. Private Stock builds approximately 45 guitars a month in addition to handling artist builds, PRS-designed Private Stock builds, and the Collection Series. With the guidance of an authorized PRS dealer, customers create and spec out every aspect of the Private Stock guitar of their dreams from start to finish. Customers can also set up an appointment to visit the Private Stock vault to personally pick out woods.
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