Stunning Private Stock McCarty 594 Owls in Flight
PRS’s elite luthiers applied their world-class guitar-crafting expertise to the Private Stock #9130 Owls in Flight McCarty 594, and it shows in every inch of its masterful construction. It all starts with the tonewoods. For over a decade, Paul Reed Smith has hoarded the very best woods for his Private Stock instruments, stashing them away in The Vault, PRS’s repository of premium tonewoods. Open the case and you’re treated to a mouth-watering symphony of superb tonewoods: a stunning curly maple top on a figured mahogany body, and a Honduran rosewood neck and bound ebony/curly maple fingerboard adorned with Sweetwater signature Owls in Flight inlays. Complete with TCI-tuned 58/15 LT pickups for sweet vintage-flavored tone, the PRS Private Stock #9130 Owls in Flight McCarty 594 was clearly made to be treasured — and played — for generations.
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The finest tonewoods on the planet
The PRS Private Stock Vault contains some of the finest tonewoods on the planet. Gorgeous wood sets for tops and backs. Toneful neck blanks. Exotic fingerboards. When you craft a guitar with materials of this caliber, you get an extraordinary instrument. When Sweetwater’s guitar experts visit The Vault, they can smell the wood, feel it, wet it to reveal the grain, and knock on it to hear its distinctive tone. This gives them a keen sense of the unique instruments we finally present to you. The Private Stock #9130 McCarty 594 Owls in Flight is a breathtaking guitar with jaw-dropping visuals, off-the-charts playability, and eat-it-with-a-spoon tone.
Pattern Vintage profile neck for enhanced playability
One of the least obvious but most powerful features of this Private Stock guitar is a neck feel that maximizes your performance and comfort with an asymmetrical Pattern Vintage profile. Though much like their Pattern profile, PRS’s Pattern Vintage carve is slightly thicker to fill your hand in just the right way. And the strings will always feel silky smooth when playing and bending due to the guitar’s 24.594-inch signature McCarty scale length — the origin of the “594” in the model name.
TCI-Tuned 58/15 pickups: vintage character and modern clarity
PRS 58/15 pickups balance vintage character with modern clarity to deliver the sweet — yet articulate — sound and rich harmonic overtones of vintage humbuckers. Featuring a powerful bridge pickup and neck pickup with the perfect amount of brightness, the 58/15 set packs a real sonic punch, from chimey cleans to full gain. The pickups are treated to PRS’s TCI (Tuned Capacitance and Inductance) tuning, which means the team at PRS has used their years of know-how to sculpt the sound to be perfect to their ears. The end result is a very musical pickup that’s true to its lineage, but updated for the modern player.
Nitro finish, for the look and feel of a classic
This Private Stock instrument wears a gorgeous nitrocellulose lacquer finish. Nitro finishes — standard back in the day — are significantly thinner than today’s polyurethane finishes, allowing the guitar’s tonewoods to breathe. Nitro finishes not only look amazing, but they also enhance the instrument’s tonal qualities. This guitar has the look and feel of a lovingly cared-for classic — one that will only improve with age.
PRS Private Stock #9130 McCarty 594 Owls In Flight Features:
- Premium Private Stock tonewoods, components, and craftsmanship
- Includes Sweetwater signature Owls in Flight inlays
- Curly maple top, mahogany body; satin nitrocellulose lacquer finish
- Curly maple neck, Pattern Vintage profile; satin nitro finish
- Ebony/curly maple fingerboard, 10-inch radius, curly maple binding
- 24.594-inch scale length, 22 Private Stock frets
- Neck and bridge 58/15 LT humbucking pickups
- Per-pickup Volume and Tone controls, 3-way pickup selector
- Push/pull Tone controls for coil-splitting
- Bone nut; 2-piece Stoptail bridge
- Phase III Locking tuners, ebony buttons
- Dual-action truss rod, headstock access
- Private Stock hardshell case included
- Handcrafted in Maryland, USA
