Paul Reed Smith Guitars

This auction is for a
used, mint 2006 20th Anniversary Paul Reed Smith Singlecut Trem with Artist Package in Emerald Green (high gloss).  It has a Brazilian Rosewood fretboard and headstock overlay.  As you may know, the Artist Package provides upgraded woods and appointment over the 10 Tops  In addition to the Brazilian board/headstock overlay, this is one of the only guitars I have seen with a curly figured mahogany neck.  This guitar covers so much tonal ground.  Of course you get all the Les Paul tones, but flip the push-pull coil tap into single coil mode and you get really close to Strat tones.

This is one of
my personal guitars that just has not received enough attention from
me.  As with all my guitars, it has been lightly played and babied.  Detail specifications are:

BODY:

*  20th Anniversary Model
*  Artist grade flamed maple Emerald Green (High Gloss) / Natural Maple Edge / Emerald Green Back

NECK:

*  25" scale length
*  Curly flamed mahogany neck
*  Brazilian rosewood fretboard and headstock
*  20th Anniversary bird inlays
*  22 fret - Wide Fat profile

ARTIST OPTION:

* Paua bird inlays
* Unfinished rosewood headstock overlay with inlayed Paua Signature
* Artist grade top (our highest grade wood offered on our production model guitars)
* Gold hardware

HARDWARE:

*  PRS tremolo
*  PRS 14:1 Phase II low mass locking tuners
*  Gold hardware
*  Ebony tuner head.

ELECTRONICS:

*  22 fret - PRS Treble 6 and Bass 6 pickups
*  Volume and push/pull tone control with 3-way toggle pickup selector

* The guitar has been just been professionally setup with Ernie Ball 10s.

I would rate this guitar a solid 9.9 out 10.  The finish is flawless except for a few very light swirls on the back cavity plates--nothing noticeable without super-close
inspection.  This is one beautiful guitar and will
definitely turn heads.  It has been super reliable and is an effortless
player that is ready to rock right out of the box.

All components are original except I originally received it with a standard PRS case, not the Artist leather version--somehow the original case must have been lost by the dealer and replaced by a standard one.  The photos show locking strap pegs.  The original gold pegs will be reinstalled.  Finally, the guitar will ship with all original paper work and gold tremolo bar.

No breaks,
problems, worries or excuses with this one.  You will not be disappointed!  Thank you for looking!
 
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SINGLECUT TREM OVERVIEW

Launched three years after the Singlecut, the Singlecut Trem is quite a different guitar and certainly not just a Singlecut with a vibrato bridge.

Firstly, while the maple top retains the same thickness, the overall body thickness is reduced noticeably to a Custom-like dimension of 49mm. Again, our sample features an optional, beautifully figured maple 10-top with a deep blue centre.

Aside from the body thickness, the PRS vibrato creates a very different resonance, and here it's typically paired with PRS's Phase II locking tuners.

Then there are the pickups and controls: two uncovered PRS 6s with zebra bobbins and the more usual PRS controls layout of volume (again without the treble bleed cap), tone, and three-way pickup selector in the usual double-cut position.

Are the PRS 6 humbuckers just uncovered versions of the Singlecut's 7s, or are there other differences? "Yes, lots of them," says Smith. "A pickup is a magnetic microphone that's basically a parametric equaliser.

At the time we were very careful to pick the wire turns, wire type, magnets, a cover or no cover… all those things so that the guitars sounded the best they could." Back in 2003 Smith told us: "In reality, the new pickups lie somewhere between the Singlecut's 7 pickups and Dragon IIs.

They're powerful like a 7 but sweeter like a Dragon II – that was our intention. Pickup covers warm up the pickup's sound – no question.

It's like in the old days with PAFs, people would take off the covers and think they'd look cooler but the sound was brighter. We use covers to sweeten pickups. So, if you're using an uncovered pickup you have to make them different so it actually sounds like a covered pickup."

"The treble pickup is not the same pickup at all," Smith says today of the Singlecut Trem's bridge humbucker. "The Singlecut has a little more open- sounding pickup, with a little more bass and treble. The Singlecut Trem has a little bit more mid-range."

And presumably these pickups are different from those you use on the double-cut guitars. "Yes, you have to voice the pickups quite differently with single- or double-cut guitars."

Sounds

The SCT, by design, is a very different animal to the more bulky Singlecut. The combination of the thinner body and the vibrato creates a more Fender-like tonality with more grain and twang, less awesome low end.

Plugged in, it's this and what sounds like more mid-range focus to the pickup voicing that widens the differences compared to the Singlecut itself.

There's more grind to the sound in full humbucker mode, and with the humbuckers split (voicing the screw coils) it's more hot-rod Fender with a neat twin-pickup mix that's nicely funky.

The twin control layout may be more familiar to existing PRS users, but having got used to the Singlecut, it now feels a little alien as you swap between the two instruments. But rest assured, it's features like this that make the Singlecut Trem a lot more than just a Singlecut with a vibrato option.

It has its own distinctly different and highly valid voice, with more apparent versatility. Conversely, it doesn't match the majestic richness of the Singlecut, which somehow has a more organic tonal versatility created by pick attack, dynamics and volume/tone changes.