2018 Paul Reed Smith McCarty 594 Artist Brazilian Orange Tiger
Offered for your consideration is this 2018 McCarty 594 with Artist upgrade and Brazilian Rosewood fretboard. If you are one of the few players that has yet to play a PRS McCarty 594, here is your opportunity to purchase a particularly nice example. Those of you who have already sampled this model know how impressive these guitars are.
The 594 is named for it's unique string scale, 24.594", making the scale length of this model just under a 10th of an inch longer than the McCarty's typical 24.5". It's still a short scale, 22-fret design, but that tiny bit of added scale length generates a bit more clarity and brightness in the guitar's tone and is just one of the many little details that makes this model special.
The PRS 58/15 LT pickups in this model also help to make this model special. These pickups are a lower wound humbuckers with a vintage output that again makes for a cleaner tone. PRS then added coil splitting, along with separate volume and tone controls for each pickup in order to provide nearly unlimited tone adjustment capabilities. Further, they put the three-way toggle in the upper bout of the guitar for purposes of player comfort.
The neck shape is called "Pattern Vintage." It's a chunky neck shape that is slightly asymmetrical with a little more mass on the bass side of the neck versus the treble side. This example has depth measurements of .875" at the first fret and .975" at the twelfth.
Finally, PRS gave the 594 their own version of the familiar Tune-O-Matic two-piece bridge and tail piece setup. This design allows for maximum adjustment of string height and intonation. This design, along with the very effective PRS locking tuners, makes for extremely easy string changes.
Play this guitar and you immediately feel comfortable with the design. It feels very LP-like, but with a precision and physical beauty of a high-end PRS guitar. The tone is lovely clean, but has fabulous character and bite when gain is added. You can move between thick humbucker tones and single-coil clarity at will. All the cool details PRS put into this design result in a guitar that is so much more than just the sum of the components. This guitar seems to be able to do it all. Please check out the brief sound sample included below.
This particular 594 has been given PRS' "Artist Package" cosmetics and one of their best finish colors, Orange Tiger. This example is particularly light weighing just 7 pounds, 5 ounces and is nicely balanced. This beauty has been further upgraded with a lovely dark Brazilian Rosewood fretboard.
This instrument was completed in 2018 and remains in near mint condition, with no flaws of any significance; about as close to new that a used instrument can be. The frets are spotless. It comes in it's original PRS "black tweed" case, also in like new condition, along with the trem arm, "Bird Tag" and all the other paperwork and accessories.
A new 594 with these upgrades will cost you at least $5K. This near new 2018 example can be had for far less. If you have been waiting for a particularly nice and well-priced example of this model to come along, here you are. Make this wonderful 594 yours. You will be very happy you did!
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