PRS Guitars has announced their Private Stock Guitar of the Month for August, and it’s a doozy. Not the very first 8 string they’ve ever made (I think the first was the one for Mark Holcomb for the current Periphery tour), but possibly the first that’s not a one-off. This one will be limited to 8 pieces, so good luck getting your hands on one. The scale length is also 26.5″, which in my opinion is pretty short for an 8 string. I’ve played ones that were 27″ that were okay, but that seems like it might be a bit of a flop machine.
Lucky for PRS, I’ll probably never get close enough to one to find out (I can’t even seem to find one for sale to see how much they cost). So instead, here’s a list of the specs and some pictures for your eyeballs:
| Top Wood | Curly Maple Top |
| Back Wood | Swamp Ash |
| Scale Length | 26.5″ |
| Neck Wood | Curly Maple |
| Neck Shape | Wide Thin |
| Number of Frets | 24 |
| Fretboard Wood | African Blackwood with Curly Maple Binding |
| Headstock Veneer | African Blackwood with Curly Maple Binding |
| Inlays | Mother of Pearl “J” Birds with Paua Centers |
| Headstock Inlay | Mother of Pearl “J” Private Stock Eagle with Paua Center with a Mother of Pearl “August” Engraved Banner |
| Side Dots | Paua |
| Pickups | Seymour Duncan Omega Treble and Seymour Duncan Alpha Bass |
| Controls | Volume and Tone with 5-Way Blade Selector Switch |
| Bridge | PRS 8 String Plate-Style Bridge |
| Tuners | Phase III Locking Tuners with African Blackwood Buttons |
| Strings | D’Addario .010 |
| Hardware | Nickel |
| Nut | Bone |
| Backplate | Swamp Ash |
| Finish | High Gloss Nitro |
| Color | Frostbite Glow |
| Case | Private Stock 20th Anniversary Black Comet Tolex |
LUNDY / August 24, 2016 1:50 pm
Hey Trey. I actually think the first 8 String PRS built was given to Tosin Abasi.
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