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408 Stoptail with Nickel Hardware Electric Guitar

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Overview

Signature PRS style and feel with an increased variety of pickup control and tones.

The PRS 408 Stoptail with Nickel Hardware Electric Guitar is one of the exciting new PRS 408 guitars. These inspiring instruments, offered as both a maple top (MT) and all mahogany (Standard) version, bring the versatility and voicing of the Private Stock Signature and the Signature Limited Edition to PRSs Core line. Multiple variations are available at Musician's Friend, just type PRS 408 into our search engine to see what's in stock. This one is distiguished by its all mahogany body, new pattern neck shape, stoptail bridge and nickel hardware.

PRS 408 pickups were designed to extend the guitars tonal spectrum by narrowing the field of the bass pickup to increase its focus and widening the field of the treble pickup to increase its sound field (hence their asymmetric appearance). This pickup configuration (comprised of four coils and offering eight sounds) stems back to Pauls experimentation on the Sorcerers Apprentice guitars in the early 1980s. Thanks to the simple but versatile switching system featuring mini-toggle switches that provide numerous combinations of humbucking and singlecoil tones, the 408 Maple Top and 408 Standard provide stunning articulation and musical clarity.

V12 finish
Finish should enhance the look, sound, and feel of a guitar by accentuating the woods inherent beauty and feel without hindering its natural resonance. And PRS Guitars new œV12 finish does just that. Introduced at Experience PRS 2010, œV12 is a very thin, hard, and clear finish that will not crack or react with thinners. After roughly 12 years in development, it is halfway between acrylic and nitro, but with a classic feel all its own. œPRS models with this new finish feel like old instruments, said Paul Reed Smith.

Pattern Neck Shape
Neck shapes have always been a high priority for PRS and a hallmark of their quality. A guitar should feel comfortable, like œhome, as soon as you pick it up, and the neck is paramount to that connection. Perfected after years of prototyping, the new œPattern neck is an updated Wide Fat PRS neck style based on Pauls pre-factory design. These necks were found on the instruments built for Carlos Santana, Peter Frampton and Howard Leese from the late 70s to the mid 80s.

Whether in woodworking, machining, or cast and die work, pattern making is the art of arriving at a perfect standard, which can be duplicated or used to create new designs by œoffsetting. All PRS necks came to be as a result of offsetting from this original, Wide Fat design.

Phase III Locking Tuners
PRS Guitars Phase III tuners are new to the line up for 2011 and will come standard on SC 58, McCarty 58, ME Quatro, and JA-15 models. These very smooth, high-tolerance pegs feature an elegant design with larger buttons, an open back, and closed housing.

Features

  • Mahogany body
  • 4 individual pickups with 8 distinct sound settings
  • 3-way toggle switch for pickup selection
  • Individual coil-tap for each pickup
  • Enhanced V12 finish
  • Pattern neck shape
  • Phase III locking tuners
  • Stoptail bridge
  • Nickel hardware

Experience the versatility and great feel of this remarkable guitar. Order today.

Specs

408 Stoptail with Nickel Hardware Electric Guitar Specifications:

Body
  • Top Wood: Mahogany
  • Back Wood: Mahogany
  • Finish: V12
Neck
  • Number of Frets: 22
  • Scale Length: 25"
  • Neck Wood: Mahogany
  • Fretboard: Wood Rosewood
  • Neck Shape: Pattern
  • Fretboard Inlays: Birds
Hardware
  • Bridge: PRS Stoptail
  • Tuners: PRS Phase III
  • Truss Rod Cover: "408"
  • Hardware Type: Nickel
Electronics
  • Treble Pickup: 408 Treble
  • Bass Pickup: 408 Bass
  • Pickup Switching :Volume and Tone Control with 3-Way Blade Pickup Switch and Two Mini-Toggles
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