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PRS 513 £3748
Scaled down from the Brazilian rosewood model, but still reassuringly expensive, meet the new 513
The MusicRadar Team, Tue 23 Oct 2007, 12:12 pm BST
Manufacturer's description
The 513 Rosewood features a newly developed, patent applied for pickup system providing 13 modern and vintage sounds utilizing 5 prorietary single coil pickups. Other specifications include a Brazilian rosewood neck and fretboard, a 25 1/4" scale length, a special neck joint, new 513 bird inlays and a new, easy to use integrated electronics control package, which includes volume control, tone control and two blade switches. One blade switch is a 5-way pickup selector and the other is a 3-way mode switch that allows you to select between the single coil, clear humbucking and heavy humbucking modes. This is one of our most versatile instruments that can go from screaming humbuckers to sparkling single coils with the flick of a 3-way.
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User comments (1)
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I have the brazilian rosewood version- its fantastic! Playability is great, and out of the box it had a nicely worn-in feel. Pick-up voicings are very versatile, and its a great gigging guitar. Set-up from PRS could have been better.
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Specification
513
- Price:
- £3748
- Available Controls:
- 3 Way Lever Mode Selector, 5 Way Pick Up Selector, Master Volume, Tone
- Available Finish:
- Violin amber sunburst, wide choice of trans finishes with or without natural maple edge
- Bridge:
- PRS Vibrato
- Case Included:
- true
- Country of Origin:
- USA
- Fingerboard Material:
- Indian Rosewood
- Guitar Body Material:
- Mahogany
- Inlays:
- Mother-Of-Pearl Bird Inlays
- Neck Material:
- Mahogany
- No of Strings:
- 6
- No. of Frets:
- 22
- Pickup Switching:
- 5 Position Blade - Bridge/Bridge and Middle/Middle/Middle and Neck / Neck
- Pickup Type:
- Five PRS single-coils
- Pickups:
- 5PRS Single-Coils
- Scale Length (Inches) (Inches):
- 25.25
- Scale Length (mm) (mm):
- 624
- String Spacing (mm):
- 52.5
- Top Material:
- Carved Maple
- Weight (kg) (kg):
- 3.7
- Weight (lb) (lb):
- 8.5
- Width at Nut (mm) (mm):
- 42.9
RobertB
Mon 17 Mar 2008, 10:26 am GMT
User rating 5 of 5