Neck Profiles - 99’ Custom 22 Artist Package

[Simon Says]

 

[Bduuubs311]

A lot of the shops near me that claim to be dealers never have anything but SE’s so I have not had a chance to test them out. I know the Mcarty 594 is different and It felt quite a bit different. I used to play an Ibanez S-470, are the pattern thins kinda like that with a bit more thickness?

 

[dogrocketp]

The biggest thing to remember is that they were using a duplicarver at this point. While there is a designation, they can vary substantially from guitar to guitar. Either try it or not, but there is no definitive answer.

 

[Simon Says]

The biggest thing to remember is that they were using a duplicarver at this point. While there is a designation, they can vary substantially from guitar to guitar. Either try it or not, but there is no definitive answer.

PRS switched to CNC mid 90, honestly...

 

[dogrocketp]

My understanding is that they first used the CNC machine on bodies, and later got a dedicated one for necks. I can and have been wrong in the past, and I can’t remember where I read it.

 

[Simon Says]

My understanding is that they first used the CNC machine on bodies, and later got a dedicated one for necks. I can and have been wrong in the past, and I can’t remember where I read it.

That would have very little sense. Why not to run neck file on a CNC, if the machine is already in-house? Why would they wait half a decade (or longer) to buy neck specific CNC?

 

[RC Mike]

That would have very little sense. Why not to run neck file on a CNC, if the machine is already in-house? Why would they wait half a decade (or longer) to buy neck specific CNC?

Burrluck’s book says PRS got their first two CNC machines in 1995, and slowly transitioned things over. There’s nothing specific beyond that, though the Santana was one of the first models to use CNC for the body. The HBs were made possible by using CNC.

I’d imagine that there were certain bottlenecks where CNC was employed earlier to ease production.

Not that it’s necessarily the same type of CNC machine, but imagine how CNC changed birds on the necks. Talk about making a costly process more efficient! To the point where birds are really the only thing they do anymore.

 

[Alnus Rubra]

Timeline

A look back at our first 35 years.

35.prsguitars.com

Says 1995

 

[dirtbiker427]

It looks like a pattern or a wide fat. It's Norman's so a call to a salesperson should sort it out. I'm sure one of them can put calipers to the 1st and 12th frets for you.

I had a Mira Core with a pattern regular neck and it was really nice. I also have a Cu22 with a wide fat and it's a great profile too.