Custom 24 specs?

[Eighthnote]

Hello all, I recently just purchased the guitar in the picture. It's a 2010. I have tried to search for specs on the Custom 24 25th anniversary model and all I've been able to find are the SE models. Anyone know where I can find my specs?
Thanks,

 

[AP515]

2010 was the first year for the 5 way blade switch. Yours has the rotary. Seems odd. You can lift the bridge pickup and get the MODCAT (it is also on the case if it hasn't been removed), and you can look up the details of the build using the decoder found here.
http://prsguitars.com/forum/showthread.php?6650-2013-MODCAT-Decoders

 

[Rider1260]

Its a beauty what ever you find out

 

[Eighthnote]

Serial Number

Its a beauty what ever you find out

Thanks for the thumbs up........ So there's not an online site where I can punch in my serial number and it gives the set-up? I guess that would be asking a lot but there's always a chance.
Thanks again...........

 

[Mixstar]

You could always post the serial number here someone is bound to know.

 

[Whitecat]

Thanks for the thumbs up........ So there's not an online site where I can punch in my serial number and it gives the set-up? I guess that would be asking a lot but there's always a chance.
Thanks again...........

No, not with just the serial number, would need the MODCAT, as has been mentioned - it'll be under a pickup or on a sticker on the hangtag and on the case (if the latter is still there, they get knocked off pretty easily).

The decoder is here: http://www.toragraphics.com/modcat/

Emailing the serial to [email protected] might get you details though, they should have a record...

 

[László]

Beautiful guitar!

I'm pretty certain that the Private Stock style headstock eagle inlaid on a rosewood veneer, the birds, the bound fingerboard, covered pickups, and the case were unique to the 25th Anniversary model. The pickups should be engraved with their model number.

 

[Eighthnote]

Pups

Beautiful guitar!

I'm pretty certain that the Private Stock style headstock eagle inlaid on a rosewood veneer, the birds, the bound fingerboard, covered pickups, and the case were unique to the 25th Anniversary model. The pickups should be engraved with their model number.

Thanks to everyone for the incoming info. The pickups are engraved and are the 57/08's on both. I'm with the understanding these are pretty nice pups. I know pickup opinions are subjective. One person's ear hears heaven while another person might hear hell.

 

[Dusty Chalk]

Ain't that the truth.

 

[László]

Thanks to everyone for the incoming info. The pickups are engraved and are the 57/08's on both. I'm with the understanding these are pretty nice pups. I know pickup opinions are subjective. One person's ear hears heaven while another person might hear hell.

I love 57/08s. Phenomenal PAF style pickups.

 

[Eighthnote]

Anyone with a guess how long PRS takes to respond to an email? I can't believe the lack of info on the web. All my Gibsons and Fenders I can just type the serial number in the Guitar Dater Project and at least get the when and where they were "born". Maybe the paperwork will answer all my questions. Just seems like PRS support is very lacking. IMO........

 

[John Mann]

Hello all, I recently just purchased the guitar in the picture. It's a 2010. I have tried to search for specs on the Custom 24 25th anniversary model and all I've been able to find are the SE models. Anyone know where I can find my specs?
Thanks,

Here is the info you are looking for -

Discription - https://web.archive.org/web/20090720070933/http://www.prsguitars.com/custom/index.html
Specs - https://web.archive.org/web/20090714111955/http://www.prsguitars.com/custom/specs.html
Colors - https://web.archive.org/web/20090714111949/http://www.prsguitars.com/custom/colors.html

 

[jbird]

Beautiful guitar, no doubt...But you purchased without knowing any specs? Neck shape for one?

 

[shinksma]

Anyone with a guess how long PRS takes to respond to an email? I can't believe the lack of info on the web. All my Gibsons and Fenders I can just type the serial number in the Guitar Dater Project and at least get the when and where they were "born". Maybe the paperwork will answer all my questions. Just seems like PRS support is very lacking. IMO........

Well, as mentioned, the MODCAT under the pickups will tell you everything except actual build date - and that might be noted somewhere else in the cavities. The serial number tells you the model year.

John Mann's links are great for overall specs of the model that year, but only you can know whether you have the Wide Thin vs Regular neck.

You gotta remember, info on Gibson and Fenders from their first thirty years of existence is pretty sparse too...

 

[László]

Just seems like PRS support is very lacking. IMO........

Actually, PRS support is utterly fantastic. If you're the original owner, and have an issue with one of their instruments, they do backflips to take care of any issue.

You'd be surprised, however, what a relatively small company PRS actually is. If you've ever visited the factory, it's not some vast, sprawling complex like you might imagine - being from Detroit, I know what big factories look like, and how many people they employ - a guitar maker is different, even a popular one like PRS, and compared to Fender and Gibson it's much smaller. PRS runs a tight ship, and folks have lots of duties.

In fact, PRS' factory is not as large, and has fewer employees, than many of the small automotive suppliers' facilities I used to do work for back in my old law practice days (a car company has lots of very small shops supplying specialty parts, plastic moldings, down to nuts and bolts, etc).

This was very clear when I visited PRS for their 30th anniversary event.

Customer support's obvious priority is taking care of issues that arise for their warranty owners, as it should be. Random inquiries about 5 year old guitars and their info are obviously lower on the priority scale, so patience is in order here.

 

[alantig]

Yeah, MODCAT will tell you everything about that specific guitar. Build date will be on the hang tag (if you got it in the deal).

According to the 4th edition of the PRS Guitar Book, the specs are:

- One-piece mahogany wide-thin or standard neck (MODCAT will tell you which yours is), bound rosewood fingerboard, shadow birds, "Custom" on the truss rod cover, inlaid 25th anniversary eagle, locking tuners
- Solid mahogany body, maple top (optional 10 top - would be designated by a 10 on the back of the headstock)
- 57/08 treble and bass humbuckers
- Volume, tone, 5-way rotary
- PRS vibrato