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SOLD: PRS 408 Faded Whale Blue
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Update: Now sold!
Hey folks, offering up another PRS for sale or trade, this time my 408 in Faded Whale Blue. I bought this pretty recently on here and was over the moon at first - it's astoundingly nice to play and sounds great. But in all honesty I feel like a Core PRS just isn't the right match for me these days, and I still have this nagging feeling that I’d be happier with a primarily single coil guitar. I've seen something I'm interested in so it's time to test the theory.
This is a 2017 build of a fabulous, now discontinued model in my favourite PRS finish. For any that don’t know, 408 means 4 coils, 8 sounds. In full humbucking mode you get a slightly narrower, more focused neck pickup and a wider, articulate bridge pickup. In split coil the wiring system adds extra coils to the split signal to avoid the usual volume drop off you get with coil taps/splits. Super useful and unlike so many similar systems the splits have an interesting, unique tone that sits somewhere between Tele, lipstick and P90, but it can go further and you can unlock a lot of versatility by rolling off the volume and tone controls.
The neck is a Pattern Regular, nicely full without being overly chunky, and the action is set really nicely. The body is the thicker McCarty style build and the frets are the taller wider variety than a standard PRS.
The guitar is in excellent condition with only some very minor wear to the frets and the light, almost invisible marks you’d expect to see on any guitar that’s actually been played.
Asking for £2,100 £2000, ideally collected (based near Reading) but I can look into a courier or even hand delivery if needed. I've got something lined up to replace this with, so no longer accepting trade offers.
Thanks for looking!
Comments
These really are brilliant guitars, I have a stoptail artist pack and it is so effortlessly playable and has so many sounds in it. The pickups are so richly musical from beautiful chiming single coils to meaty humbuckers with none of that seediness you often see in splits.
best of luck with the sale