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What do you mean?That is awesome!
http://s020.radikal.ru/i700/1501/f5/2b089f89ecce.jpgCan you post a picture of the back of the headstock and back of where the neck meets the body? That might give us some clues. Would there be anything in the pickup cavity too?
But Employee-build/spec guitars do happen often enough (I mean, why wouldn't they?!), so it would not be out of this world to believe it was a customized factory color.
And see the image here of a PRS EG:
http://profile.ultimate-guitar.com/idiotbox919/pictures/gear/629857/
That seems to be a similar/same color. So maybe it was available, but not part of the standard color charts that year.
These are cool guitars, I dig 'em.
I think it's just a modified EGIII personally, doubtfully done by PRS himself. The pick guard material wasn't popular or consistent with that time period, or with what PRS would've had lying around, and the humbucker route looks a little too contouring and less squarish in the edges. The knobs aren't what normally came with these guitars and the parallel pickup orientation on the single coils isn't continuous with what they were doing at the time, let alone the pickup choices... I don't know what circumstances would have had to occur for PRS to select an Ibanez pickup in the middle position when there must've been a pile of Seymour Duncan pickups available that the company already paid for.
Here's a picture I Googled that shows what this guitar may have originally looked like:
An employee may have bought it and worked on it at work, and there's a big maybe that Paul would've done it (even though these early EG's were more of a Joe Knaggs thing) but I feel like it is equally as probable that the previous seller was an inventive storyteller.
Bangin'! guitar. I want it.
for example, an employee PRS has built himself ? the previous owner claims that it is the employee PRS built himself.
I think it's just a modified EGIII personally, doubtfully done by PRS himself.
My english is bad.I think there is a language barrier issue there Sergio. (The OP has links to .ru domains.)
I think the OP is saying he is being told the guitar was built by the PRS Employee himself, not by PRSh. I too doubt PRSh was involved with this in any way.
And yeah, it just looks like someone replaced the whole pick guard sub-assembly with a customized configuration.
So not even an Employee-build, just a modified "Off-the-shelf" guitar, albeit an uncommon model.
My english is bad.
You are right.
I meant that this guitar was made for one of the employees, that worked at the factory, and not personally Paul Smith.
"PRS staff have the opportunity after one or two years and then again after seven years with the company to request an employee guitar, specially made for them and supplied more or less at cost." (Dave Burrluck. The PRS Guitar Book, p. 84).