Bowtiefanatc
Confirmed Bird Snob
Love me some spruce top HBs! Those look great
Love me some spruce top HBs! Those look great
Hmm, interesting.
My HB was built in 2000, purchased new in 2001, has a McCarty TS cover, hang tag lists it as HBII, has Archtop 2 pups, and has a mahogany back. Seems like it straddles the specs on the PRS website list and what WA Paul mentioned.
Somebody goofed on the hang tag then.
I'm not so sure, still researching.
.......... but if they did goof up, I'm gonna straighten them out.
Hang tag is definitely wrong.
A Hollowbody II has always been a mahogany rim with maple top and maple back.
What you describe was originally just called the McCarty Hollowbody. It had a hollowed out mahogany back and you could get it with either a spruce or maple top. After a couple years, they updated the names to Hollowbody Spruce and Hollowbody I, respectively.
All of the Hollowbody and Archtop models in the beginning had the "McCarty" truss rod cover as well as McCarty Archtop pickups, so that matches up.
Well, after a bit of research (some with the help of Shawn) it will remain a mystery that plays & sounds great. Due to the hang tag stating HB2 and archtop 2(?) pickups also on the tag and I can't find any record of such pups, maybe they had an office party at PRS and got whacky with the nomenclature after too much spiked punch.
Well, after a bit of research (some with the help of Shawn) it will remain a mystery that plays & sounds great. Due to the hang tag stating HB2 and archtop 2(?) pickups also on the tag and I can't find any record of such pups, maybe they had an office party at PRS and got whacky with the nomenclature after too much spiked punch.
I read those as question marks.
Interesting. I'd be playing in a higher gain scenario (think Foo Fighters) so a newer might be better to avoid feedback.
Hmm...if I get an empty house for a bit this weekend I might try to craft an experiment. I had no trouble getting feedback from my newer one, but it was also easy to stop - I just moved a couple feet out of the line of theMDT 4x10.