PRS’s ultra-versatile Private Stock Modern Eagle V takes flight

PRS Private Stock Modern Eagle V
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PRS has unveiled the latest luxurious electric guitar to grace its Private Stock collection: the Modern Eagle V Limited Edition.

This marks the fifth incarnation of the Modern Eagle and promises to “push the boundaries of guitar design” with a huge variety of tones.

PRS Private Stock Modern Eagle V

(Image credit: PRS Guitars)

An HSH pickup configuration is altered via two paired mini-toggles, which transform the humbuckers into true single coils.

Meanwhile, a push/pull tone control can activate both humbuckers, allowing all three pickups to operate at once.

Finally, a third mini-toggle changes the volume pot value from 500k to 250k for fine-tuning pickup output.

PRS Private Stock Modern Eagle V switching

(Image credit: PRS Guitars)

Elsewhere, the guitar’s mahogany body is complemented by a curly maple top in a high-gloss nitro finish, while the curly maple neck wood features a 25” Brazilian rosewood fretboard.

Just 120 Private Stock Modern Eagle V Limited Edition guitars will be made worldwide - head over to PRS Guitars for more info.

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Mike has been Editor-in-Chief of GuitarWorld.com since 2019, and an offset fiend and recovering pedal addict for far longer. He has a master's degree in journalism from Cardiff University, and 15 years' experience writing and editing for guitar publications including MusicRadar, Total Guitar and Guitarist, as well as 20 years of recording and live experience in original and function bands. During his career, he has interviewed the likes of John Frusciante, Chris Cornell, Tom Morello, Matt Bellamy, Kirk Hammett, Jerry Cantrell, Joe Satriani, Tom DeLonge, Radiohead's Ed O'Brien, Polyphia, Tosin Abasi, Yvette Young and many more. His writing also appears in the The Cambridge Companion to the Electric Guitar. In his free time, you'll find him making progressive instrumental rock as Maebe.