The Pinnacle of PRS 6-string Perfection
Replete with a royal arrangement of world-class tonewoods, the Private Stock #12016 Custom 24 provides you with the loftiest level of 6-string excellence that PRS has to offer. Visually, it’s an immensely impressive instrument, brandishing hand-selected timbers selected by Sweetwater’s guitar experts. Beginning with the body, this Custom 24 elevates Paul’s most foundational formula to new heights with a gorgeous curly maple top and an African mahogany body — a pairing that’s sure to command your audience’s eyes and ears with its dazzling grain lines and sustain-rich resonance. The neck is equally appealing, featuring a full-feeling Pattern Regular figured mahogany base and a regal kingwood fingerboard studded with offset Birds inlays. Twin DMO pickups make the most of these superlative materials with their clear and vocal-like sonic character, while a 5-way blade switch unlocks convenient coil-splitting capabilities. Finally, this guitar’s Tweaked Phase III locking tuners and expressive Gen III tremolo ensure that its performance more than matches its spotlight-stealing appearance. Exquisite in every aspect, this PRS Private Stock #12016 Custom 24 is truly an heirloom-grade instrument of the highest order.
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Crafted from the highest-grade tonewoods in the world
Tucked away in an unassuming corner of Stevensville, Maryland, lies one of the world’s most exceptional tonewood collections: “The Vault,” located just outside Paul Reed Smith’s office at PRS headquarters. From time-tested 6-string standbys like maple and mahogany to ultra-rare and exotic timbers, this treasure trove of tonewoods stands almost unequaled.
To put it plainly, when you purchase a PRS Private Stock guitar, you can rest assured that your guitar’s tonewoods are the best available on the planet — a fact abundantly apparent from the moment you lay eyes on this Custom 24’s exquisite curly maple top. Beaming with dense figuring and captivating grain patterns, this top-of-the-line tonewood is supported by a lively African mahogany body. The figured mahogany neck continues this Private Stock masterwork’s old-school streak, finished off by a decidedly non-traditional fingerboard material: kingwood. Immensely dense and flaunting a rich, tightly grained appearance, kingwood has been favored by fine cabinetmakers for centuries, and it only enhances our PRS Private Stock #12016 Custom 24’s royal aura.
Dual DMO dynamics: state-of-the-art sound
Coinciding with 40 years of aural excellence, this Custom 24 brandishes a powerful pair of pickups that capture years of Paul and the PRS New Products Engineering Team’s years of hands-on research and innovative development. Enter DMO humbuckers. Short for “Dynamic, Musical, Open,” the DMO treble and bass pickups — mounted in the bridge and neck positions, respectively — represent a wealth of boundary-pushing possibilities. Paul and his team utilized state-of-the-art advancements in both signal analysis and tuning technologies to harness the magic of myriad vintage pickups and reimagine them as a constellation of tone-crafting capabilities, conjuring transparent vocal character and shimmering, precise sound in every register.
Pattern Regular neck profile for fluid playability
This Private Stock Custom 24 proudly boasts PRS’s Pattern Regular neck profile. Evolved from designs Paul Reed Smith has been working on for decades and perfected after years of prototyping, the Pattern Regular neck shape is similar to the traditional Regular-profile neck found on PRS guitars made in the late 1980s. The Pattern Regular neck carve is a nice balance between fat ’50s-style necks and the thin necks that became popular in the early ’60s. It’s ideal for players who alternate between thumb-over fretting techniques and classical left-hand positioning, pivoting with their thumb on the back of the neck.
PRS Private Stock #12016 Custom 24 Features:
- Built by PRS’s most experienced luthiers with the finest tonewoods found on the planet
- Spec’d from top to bottom by Sweetwater’s guitar experts
- African mahogany body provides a solid tonal foundation, with a warm response
- Attention-demanding curly maple top imparts a strong treble bite
- Figured mahogany neck featuring a full-bodied Pattern Regular profile
- Kingwood fingerboard and headstock overlay — a royal tonewood prized by cabinetmakers for centuries
- Stunning offset Birds inlays; black Delrin side markers
- DMO pickups sing with a vocal-like complexity and a clear, open response
- 5-way pickup selector unlocks coil-splitting shimmer
- High-class Hybrid hardware package includes a PRS Gen III tremolo and Tweaked Phase III locking tuners
- Sleek satin nitrocellulose finish feels smooth on your fingers
