Sweetwater’s Metal-ready Spin on the Custom 24
Armed with an aggressive edge and top-of-the-line tonewoods, this PRS Wood Library Custom 24’s tricked-out specs come courtesy of Sweetwater’s team of guitar experts. Shredders, metalheads, and rockers will be thrilled by this guitar’s attitude-packed \m/ humbuckers, which fuse PRS’s penchant for definition and dynamics with a voice purpose-made for gain-drenched destruction. This high-octane Custom 24 continues its metal-minded streak with a fast Pattern Thin figured maple neck and a glassy 10-inch-radius ziricote fingerboard. Head on over to the body to be greeted by a beaming figured maple 10-Top supported by a color-matched lightweight swamp ash foundation. To seal the deal, we bookended the PRS Wood Library Custom 24 with no-nonsense Smoked Black hardware, including Phase III locking tuners and a squeal-ready PRS Patented Gen III tremolo unit. Squarely aimed at the gain-obsessed crowd but flexible enough to take on almost any sonic challenge, Sweetwater’s PRS Wood Library Custom 24 injects PRS’s iconic 24-fret formula with a dose of high-octane heat.
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Metal-ready \m/ humbucking pickups
A far cry from the traditionally voiced and vintage-inspired humbuckers found on many PRS instruments, this Wood Library Custom 24’s \m/ pickups are voiced for all-out humbucker aggression. They are designed to provide metal players with a sound that splits the difference between high-gain brutality and PRS’s tonal dedication to dynamics and crystal-clear clarity. By using a combination of alnico magnets, ceramic magnets, and a hot wind, \m/ pickups give you a remarkably defined and focused response that effortlessly accommodates everything from ultra-high-gain riffage to shimmering cleans.
Ultra-fast PRS Pattern Thin profile
One of the speediest neck profiles you’ll find on a PRS instrument, the Pattern Thin shape is a modernized version of the original PRS Wide Thin profile. This shape forms the perfect fretboard foundation for blazing-fast riffing and high-gain drenched technicality — a perfect match for this Wood Library Custom 24’s modern metal M.O. Plus, the Pattern Thin shape is by no means strictly for shredders — Sweetwater guitarists of all styles and backgrounds have come to favor the Pattern Thin profile for its lightning-fast feel and comfortable grip.
Only a 10-Top will do
Curl, flame, quilt, and spalt: even in the early days of Paul Reed Smith’s guitar-building career, the company had a reputation for the sheer quality of figuring on their maple tops, with dazzling lines and grain patterns that make any plain top pale in comparison. Naturally, customers began to call in and request that their instruments be built with “a nice-looking top” — far too vague a term for the tonewood scientists in Stevensville, Maryland. Thus, the 10-Top designation was born: a lofty status that requires a “clearly defined figure across the entire top,” leaving no doubt that the guitar will arrive capped with a superlative piece of timber.
PRS Wood Library Custom 24 Features:
- Custom-spec Wood Library Custom 24, designed by Sweetwater’s team of guitar experts for a more aggressive tone and feel
- Lightweight swamp ash body topped with a stunning figured maple 10-Top
- Pattern Thin figured maple neck is sure to please technique-heavy players seeking a neck that won’t slow them down
- Glassy ziricote fingerboard with a 10-in. radius and sparkle mother-of-pearl Old School Birds inlays
- PRS \m/ humbuckers offer a much more aggressive and authoritative tone compared to your typical PRS, ensuring this guitar excels in modern metal and hard-rock applications
- 5-way blade switch unlocks shimmering split-coil and in-between sounds
- Stylish Smoked Black hardware, including Phase III locking tuners and a squeal-ready Gen III tremolo unit
