Notice that no one liked Hunter’s post. How often do you see that?Hey everyone - I'm out of the office tomorrow so no Private Stock Friday.
Nice! Congrats!!!
Beauty! Congrats - let’s get the rundown on the woods and electronics
Great specs! I love the Pattern Vintage neck carve and a good Braz RW neck. I like your configuration on pos 3 with the push pull - nice solution! Yeah, the tonewoods can make the pickups sound a bit different, but I thought I read they had tweaked some of the specs on the 2019 DGTs so maybe that is some of the difference on the pickups? Braz neck can accentuate more bass and highs relative to the mids so that could be some of the perception. Either way, nice build. Agree on the inlays - turquoise moons? Nice subtle touch!Mahogany body, with 594 thickness, and a spalted maple top. There are a lot of really gorgeous Private Stock instruments, but knowing myself, I wanted something that would be really special looking but without being so pretty that I'd be afraid to play it. This guitar's going to be played. A lot.
Brazilian rosewood neck, with a pattern vintage neck shape, and cocobolo fingerboard, backplates and headstock veneer
DGT frets
DGT humbuckers and a 509 single coil. David Grissom has a real ear for tone, and I didn't think I'd like any humbuckers as much as his, so I opted for the DGTs. I don't know if PRS has changed DGTs, or whether they simply sound different in this guitar, but these pickups sound more open, with a little less output and midrange, than the pickups in my Artist Package DGT, which has been my number 1 for years. I'm actually relieved that the two guitars sound spectacular but in different ways.
The 5-position blade is bridge humbucker, bridge humbucker split + middle single coil, middle single coil, middle single coil + neck humbucker split and neck humbucker. However, if I pull-up on the push-pull pot, position 3 changes to the bridge and neck humbuckers. There also are two mini-toggle coil taps. I wanted easy access to the tones I use most often, with the ability to get the other less-commonly-used tones, as well.
There's a couple things that need to be sorted out, but I'm generally thrilled with how this guitar sounds and plays. PRS knocked this one out of the park!
Well done JDutch.
I especially like the inlays.
Great specs! I love the Pattern Vintage neck carve and a good Braz RW neck. I like your configuration on pos 3 with the push pull - nice solution! Yeah, the tonewoods can make the pickups sound a bit different, but I thought I read they had tweaked some of the specs on the 2019 DGTs so maybe that is some of the difference on the pickups? Braz neck can accentuate more bass and highs relative to the mids so that could be some of the perception. Either way, nice build. Agree on the inlays - turquoise moons? Nice subtle touch!
Thanks, Paul! My DGT has an Indian Rosewood neck and Brazilian Rosewood fingerboard, so it’s somewhat similar.
The bobbins are reverse zebra. I think PRS might not have wax potted the pickups, so that I have the option of removing the covers, which may account for some of airiness I’m hearing, but I’m only guessing at this point. Whatever they did is working for me.
Thanks! It sounds unbelievable. I was up until 2 a.m. last night playing it, which made getting up for work awful, but totally worth it.