Neck Carve History Question

[Muziqman]

Is there a documented neck carve history of PRS guitars out there that shows which necks where available on which guitars and when things changed ? I've done a search of this forum already and have only found bits and pieces and general changes. This is only for my own research and curiosity really. I know at the beginning there were Wide-Fat neck on Custom 22s and Wide-Thin necks on Custom 24s but were there other neck carves at the start ? Around 2011/2012 things changed to the Pattern, Pattern Thin, and Pattern Regular available on various guitars but I'm looking for specifics.

 

[sergiodeblanc]

Well, originally it was the “Standard” and Wide Thin. Wide Fat didn’t come along until the first Dragon (1992) and then the CU22 (1993), although there were a few attempts at thicker necks for random artist’s (and specially made) guitars.

Standard and W/T necks were available on everything but CE24’s, Special’s, and EG’s (the first 22 fret guitars).

When W/F came out (depth of the Standard and width of the W/T) I think “Standard” changed to “Regular”, then in 95 they added the Santana profile (the only profile that matters), they added the DGT, and then… they changed the names to the “Pattern” names they use now.

I’m sure we could compile a list of models and what profiles they were available with.

 

[24Fretter]

I'd love to see a real history of that. Hard to know what's what unless you know what everything was called over the years. I think what is now pattern regular used to be 'regular' and 'standard'. Not sure what "pattern" was.