Here's PRS response the other day:
Hi Will,
Congratulations on your purchase and thanks for playing PRS. Here are the specs on your PS 408 Experience.
Specifications:
Model: DGT Signature
Neck wood: Figured mahogany
Fingerboard wood: Cocobolo with curly maple binding
Top wood: Curly maple
Back wood: Figured mahogany
Headstock Veneer wood: Curly maple with curly maple binding
Neck Carve: DGT
Side Dots: Black
Color / Stain: Faded Abalone.
Fingerboard inlays: Black lip mother of pearl birds with white mother of pearl outlines
Headstock veneer inlays: Black lip mother of pearl Private Stock eagle with white mother of pearl outlines
Finish type: High gloss nitro
Pickups: Treble: 408
Bass: 408
Electronics: Signature
Hardware: Gold/nickel PRS tremolo, phase III locking tuning pegs with cocobolo buttons and curly maple backplates
Set-Up: D’Addario .010
Case type: Private Stock leather
Specials: Faded Abalone high gloss nitro finish, black lip mother of pearl bird inlays with white mother of pearl outlines, white mother of pearl “PRS Experience 2012" engraved banner as well as curly maple binding along the fingerboard and headstock veneer. This guitar was built for the 2012 Experience PRS Event.
Thanks,
Se****
Corrected:
Don't know if this is a DGT/408 hybrid. LoL, although I've never felt a DGT neck if that was the only thing DGT.
Fretboard looks more like the cocobolo than the advertised pernambuco (my 594 has it).
The listing-
Model: 408 PRS Experience 2012 LTD PS#3881
Neck Wood: Figured Mahogany (correct)
Fingerboard Wood: Pernambuco w/ Curly Maple Binding (agree with PRS on cocobolo)
Top Wood: Curly maple (correct)
Body Wood: Figured Mahogany (correct)
Headstock Veneer Wood: Curly Maple (matching) w/ Curly Maple Binding (correct)
Neck Carve: Pattern RRegula (having never felt a DGT carve, gonna give the nod to PRS as DGT)
Side Dots: MOP (need to look at this more closely)
Fingerboard Inlays: Old Birds Silver MOP (after seeing other pics of black lip MOP, think that's what it is per PRS records)
Headstock Veneer Inlays: PS Small Eagle w/Experience 2012 Banner - Silver MOP (black lip MOP)
Finish Type: HG Nitro (correct)
Pickups: Treble: 408 Bass: 408 (correct)
Electronics: Volume, Tone Control, 3-way Toggle and 2 Mini Switches for Coil-Tap (correct)
Hardware: Gold/Nickel PRS Trem, Phase III Locking Tuning Pegs with Ebony Set Screw Buttons (buttons look like cocobolo per PRS)
Set-Up: D’Addario .010 (correct)
Case type: Private Stock Brown Leather (correct)
Weight: 8Lbs. 10oz. (haven't weighed, but it's not a 10+ pounder)
Specials: 2012 PRS Experience LTD Guitar, Pernambuco Fretboard, Matching Headstock, Matching Curly Maple Back Plates. (cocobolo fretboard).
I don't suspect ANY foul play AT ALL!
Unless Paul Reed Smith or one of his prized luthiers did it, this thing looks like the day it came off the factory floor. Having ordered my ChineseRS experiment spec'd out (it's decent faking) and having SE's, and S2's, this is above the average core crafting. And that top... Sweet Jesus, that top..........
My speculation is that there may have been occasional confusion with Experience Private Stocks... Or at least this one.
Would love to have the paper, but I'd rather have this guitar and case any day over the paper. No doubt where this guitar was produced!!!
