It’s now used on all USA PRS guitars except Private Stock and the David Grissom’s, which are all nitro.”įor this year, the McCarty reverts to vintagestyle non-locking tuners, with unplated brass string posts and faux bone buttons instead of the Phase III locking tuners of the 2016 version. It works great, looks great and sounds great. “It’s that simple: it’s a nitro-ish base coat with a topcoat of nitrocellulose lacquer. It’s crystal clear and acts a lot like nitro – it makes a wonderful base coat and we spray nitro over it. It’s nitrocellulose lacquer mixed with Plexiglas. “CAB stands for cellulose acetate butyrate. The final piece of this 2020 McCarty puzzle is a new nitro-over-cellulose finish, or NOC, that originally was called CAB. The scale length, bridge, master volume and tone setup add up to make the McCarty much broader than a vintage-chasing clone “I was making a claim and they accepted it.” “It was eye opening for everybody,” continues Paul. “You were in that meeting could you hear a difference?” Paul asks PRS’s director of marketing, Judy Schaefer, who was sitting in on our interview. “Yes, there have been discussions here about whether the weight of the tuners made a difference, so we went into Jack Higginbotham’s office and we changed the tuners right in front of everybody and asked if they could hear the difference. I hear a difference, a beautiful difference, and I think we’re doing it for very grounded reasons. “The tension between the gear and the worm makes a difference.
“The weight of the tuning pegs makes a difference,” states Paul Reed Smith today. While the 2016 model used the latest-spec Phase III locking tuners with their unplated string posts, the 2020 reverts to the vintage Kluson-style tuners of the original model, a change back then from the rather clunky cam-lock tuners of Paul’s original vision. The rolled-top edge binding is vintage ivory acrylic. These two-piece bird inlays have a green ripple abalone centre with vintage ivory acrylic edges.
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